Sweet May 2019- Garden Bloggers Bloom Day

The woman whose blog May Dreams Gardens originated the Garden Bloggers Bloom Day event  dreams of May, when "the sun is warm, the sky is blue, the grass is green, and the garden is all new again!"

The grass is green - check.  The garden is all new again - check.  Now, about that warm sun and blue sky - right now it's still a dream.  Our sun does come and go, but things haven't settled yet.

Still it's the 15th of May, and garden bloggers (and bloggers who like flowers, like me) gather again to celebrate. 

In my zone 5b Binghamton, New York area garden, things have been wet and dreary for a lot of the season.  We had a lot of winter kill.  Our redbud is now a deadbud.  We lost most of our tulips, our wormwood, one of our three euphorbias, our thyme, and some more miscellaneous plants.

Our cherry tree is nearly done, but I want to show you the beauty of last week.

It was not a good daffodil year but I still have a few, rain and all.

Euphorbia.

These pansies are special cold hardy pansies bred to overwinter in our zone 5b climate.  Indeed they did, and the two we purchased (in the Erie, Pennsylvania area last September) are thriving.

One of our two lilac bushes.

A basket of Johnny Jump Ups I made last month.

The Mother's Day basket my son gave me - petunias.

This basket has its own story - I won it in a contest at a local nursery.

Raindrops keep falling on its head.  Sunpatien, but no sun.

My sweet woodruff, planted years ago, is blooming.  I'm thinking of getting into potpourri making again-I haven't done that in almost 30 years, I think.

Variegated Solomon's seal with its tiny white flowers.

Dead nettle.

Brunneria is trying to take over my back yard.  We have green, yellow, and variegated leafed varieties.

My bleeding hearts - white, yellow and pink.

Primrose.

In last year's May GBBD post, I blogged about a trillium we bought several years ago.  It finally bloomed last year but the flower bud never opened.  This year, it made a tiny bit more progress. 

And here you can actually see the inside of the flower.  We understand that a plant can take up to seven years to bloom for the first time.  This plant may actually outlive me (I'm in my mid 60's), sobering to think of.  But, this is as open as it is going to get.

Indoors, I have three African violets blooming and one of my Thanksgiving cactuses has put forth a stray bloom.  My one reblooming Phalaenopsis is still going strong.  But today, I will let my outdoor plants take center stage.

Thank you for joining me today!  If you garden, why not show us what's happening for you?

Thanks go to May Dreams Gardens, who has hosted this 15th of the month meme for many years.