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!

GBBD: April '13

Scilla siberica

As the second little wave of blossoms arise in Nova Scotia, the earliest flowers are still hanging on.  Ahhh... the succession of growth and blossom has begun, and will carry on into every month of the rest of the year... I hope!

Puschkinia scilloides

Eranthis hyemalis

Galanthus nivalis

There's something lovely about the early blossoms coming up through last year's unkempt grass and leaves.

Puschkinia and Crocus

Hyachinthus

My first shrub to come into bloom is a hazelnut.  This bush was a seedling from a friend.  It was a 'normal,' straight-twigged plant, growing beneath it's corkscrew parent, Corylus avellana 'contorta.'

Male catkins just opening up

Female 'blossoms' just emerging

The wild Coltsfoot is thoroughly enjoying the moments of sunshine, blooming long before the leaves appear.  See the stringy petioles from last year?

Tussilago farfara

Happy Garden Bloggers Bloom Day to you all.  Check out everything and everyone at May Dreams Gardens.

Wordless Wednesday: Lilac Season

Trillium luteum? 

Trillium grandiflorum

Junebugs galore!

Centaurea montana 'Amethyst in Snow'

Allium ___

Scilla hispanica, Spanish Bluebells

Giant Water Bug