On this last Garden Bloggers Bloom Day May post (because Carol at May Dreams Gardens, who has hosted this meme for many years, is retiring GBBD at the end of this year) I have many blooms to show you in my zone 6a garden in the Southern Tier of New York.
Our weather has been so up and down. This week we had days in the 50's F (12.7 C) and by Monday, it will be in the 90's F (32.2 C). Then, by the end of next week, it will cool down again. This was after having a warmer (and wetter) April than we normally do.
I looked at my flower photos from May of 2025 and it appears we are slightly behind May of 2025, after all that up and down.
The daffodils are fading away.
These are the last good ones.
The Japanese tree peony buds are getting ready to open.
Euphorbia has been blooming for a while.
A fuchsia tower, my Mother's Day gift. Thank you, son! (Smart son; he brings me a different hanging basket each year).
Lily of the Valley.
One of the two pansy baskets I made up this year.
In the front, my iris are starting to bud up.
Now to the shady back yard.
My trillium, This variety does not have flowers that open; they don't need to as they are pollinated by ants.
Primrose is almost finished.
I think this is brunneria Jack Frost. I didn't capture many of the lovely small blue flowers because I was concentrating on the foliage.
I call this my lemon and lime brunneria. I also have brunneria with "regular" green leaves.
In the back, it looks like my bleeding heart didn't survive the winter and my purple lilacs are on strike this year. My white Lilacs are still blooming but are so high up I decided I had enough flowers already. So I will end this here.
May is such a wonderful time. Hoping that if you have a garden, it is doing well.
Now, why not visit some of the other flower gardeners posting their links at
Garden Bloggers Bloom Day and check out what's blooming for them?
May is such a good month for blooms. I wonder if someone else will pick up the garden bloggers bloom day mantle.
ReplyDeleteA temperature swing from the 50s to the 90s is some slide, Alana! Your early spring conditions look great. I hope the climb into the 90s isn't too hard on your plants and doesn't last too long. I skipped 2 GBBDs due to a medical issue from which I'm still recovering but I jumped back in hoping to keep the meme going through the end of its run in December.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful photos, Alana!
ReplyDeleteSpent the afternoon at the garden center and bought two large geraniums. BYGO. Yay! My bleeding heart looks more like massive heart damage, perhaps fatal. Maybe the warm weather coming will help.
ReplyDelete...Alana, you have a fabulous collection, your lemon and lime brunneria sure is different!
ReplyDeleteI've never heard of ants being pollinators - how wonderful.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed your garden and spring blooms and I love the fuchsia tower! It is so unique and beautiful and the Brunnera is fabulous too!
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