Thursday, May 15, 2014

Bloom Day May '14

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.

Hyacinthus orientalis

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!

Corydalis solida
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!
May 9
May 9

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.  
Dicentra cucullaria
Happy May to one and all!

4 comments:

  1. I love that Corydalis. I have a yellow one but I love the pink!
    Happy Gardening!

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  2. Beautiful! I love all the early spring blooms. Happy Bloom Day!

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  3. I just bought a some Solomon's Seal (finished blooming) at a local plant sale to give it a good home -- at a north side of my wooden fence. Now I see it in everyone's blog. Can't wait for next spring when I can show it off, too.
    Ray

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  4. just Lovely :)
    and do not miss

    SATURDAY SHOW OFF

    it is FUN :)
    Welcome
    The Roseman

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