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!

GBBD April 2014

'Inherited flowers' are a great thing in the spring.  We sold our house in January, and where we rent now is a temporary stopover. After such a transition, one never knows what will rise from the ground as winter ends. Very little looks to be planted here, but the crocus of a previous gardener lives on in a few places around the property.  

The leaves of a few tulips and daffodils are also emerging, but look too small to be the promise of blooms.  I'm guessing leaves only. 

It is not that many days ago that snow and Ice covered things. Out at the Cottage (which we did not sell) the last storm of the season piled snow in high banks... on top of the snowdrops that were almost in bloom back in mid-March.

March 29, 2014

March 29

These plants are so tough, as you, reader, know.  

April 11, 2014.  The yellow is Winter Aconite!

April 11

Happy Garden Bloggers Bloom Day to one and all.  See many other flowers of spring thanks to May Dream Gardens.