Catching Up at the Cottage

My attention to gardening at the Cottage has only been slightly more than my attention to blogging this summer... at a low ebb, in other words!  Time to catch up a bit.  Let's just call this a photo essay today...  

     Astilbe and friends, Cup Plant (Silphium perfoliatum), Wild Quinine (Parthenium integrifolium).

I am really liking Dyer's Greenwood (Genista tinctoria).

And, it is rose season...

This interesting new acquisition is, uh... well, I must hunt for the name.  ...Ah, here it is: seems to be called Cruel Plant! (Cynanchum ascyrifolium)  And the last shot is a little Allium I also got at a plant sale in the spring (A. nutans?).

Enjoy the bright bits of summer!

Garden Blogger's Bloom Day JUNE 2014

Today's photos are about a week old, but here's the best I can do for bloom day today!  Enjoy many more blogs by visiting May Dreams Gardens.

Trillium grandiflorum

Akebia quinata

Trillium cernuum

Lonicera tatarica

Geranium phaeum

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!