May - Spring Flowers

While my square foot vegetable garden is beginning to bare fruit, more flowers around my house are blooming each and every day. I guess the old adage, "April showers, bring May flowers", is mostly correct.  There wasn't much rain in April but there are May flowers.

Clematis 

Clematis

Rose Madame Isaac Pereire

 Iris

Iris

Budding white Iris with Red Poppy in background

"Johnson's Blue" Cranesbill or Hardy Geranium

2 Sambucus Nigra "Black Lace" bushes in full bloom
The odor is lovely, spicy with a strong taste of licorice

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May Blossoms

The tulips, crocus, muscari, snow drops, dwarf iris have finished blooming. Here are a few photographs taken within the last few days of currently blooming perennials.

allium

Same allium days later

Oriental Poppies planted by the road. Waiting for the DEA to swoop in

Rescued in NJ from the bulldozer at a Lowe's building site. Not sure, I think they are  Spiderwort

 Salvia officinalis ("common sage"). Wintered over to flower.

 Salvia officinalis ("common sage")

 Salvia officinalis ("common sage")

Hardy Geranium:Wargrave Pink

 Iris

Clematis

Clematis

Honeysuckle:Alabama Crimson. No hummingbirds seen, yet.

Sambucus Black Lace