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| Scilla siberica |
Well, the glorious, fast-paced time of growing and blooming is here. No need to dream about May... we must pause frequently to enjoy this season thoroughly! Today is "Garden Blogger's Bloom Day - visit May Dreams Gardens for many more posts from around the world - and see here what's been bright at my cottage in Nova Scotia, Canada.
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| Hyacinthus orientalis |
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| Primula vulgaris |
Amid the common garden blossoms are a few more unusual things... for me, anyhow. Though the little "Johnny Jump Ups" are not 'special,' the green shoots amid them are - shoots of one-year-old False Hemp, Datisca cannabina. They survived the winter!
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| Corydalis solida |
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| Sanguinaria canadensis |
A plant that I just bought one year ago this month is this happy clump of variegated Solomon's Seal (Polygonatum odoratum variegatum?). Though not in bloom, it is as pink and pretty as anything, arising from the earth. Last year, I bought a little clump of three or four stalks... which have now more than doubled. There are at least nine shoots coming up!
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| May 9 |
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| May 9 |
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| May 14 |
My parting shot for you, dear reader, is a rather fuzzy one. My excuse is the wind that was keeping every bobbing flower and fragile leaf moving. There is almost always wind at the cottage.
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| Dicentra cucullaria |
Happy May to one and all!
