What's in full bloom now? MAY 16th - MAY 31st

This Lewisia hybrid. I lost my beautiful fuchsia one. Franny sat on it.

The 'lavenders'. Globe allium, the lilacs, and Siberian iris.

Lovely. Pixy, some folks in the Herb forum are noticing the voles are leaving their gardens containing certain herbs alone. They are trying to narrow it down to specific herb(s) which may be repellent to the little critters. If I hear more, I'll pass it on. Meanwhile, I think I'll post my mystery shrub on the Plant ID forum - those folks are usually johnny-on-the-spot with their answers.

Love the snow on the mountain and FMN. Pretty shrub also. Lots of prettys.

Julie - I gotz rootz. Lotza rootz. Faster than seedz.

Pix/Kathy - Leycesteria: DOA in Feb. Another plant to scratch off my list of replaceables.

Oh, Deb, which thread? I'd like to follow that. I'm willing to plant just about anything to get them to leave my plants alone.
Katye, that's too bad. So much plant death this year.

Pix - this year wasn't as bad as the previous 3. But I did lose some things that surprised me - all Z 5 & 6.
Go figure.

Still checking to ID your Leycesteria wanna-be.

I'm stumpified, and cannot find my Hortus book. How could I not find it - it's quite large.

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I'm replacing the Leycesteria - it did okay the winter before. It had to be that early freeze. I love that plant . . .

Kathy - since when was a third party necessary to distract me? I distract myself!

If anyone wants Columbine roots, i will be ripping - actually i will dig them properly for you.

after the rain & before dark:
Orange Poopies

Clem Niobe

Rose - Arthur Bell smelling fruitaliciously summerlike

I actually lost more things this past winter than the winter before. Yes, it was that nasty freeze in November. We were helpless in the face of it.
By the way, I was looking at the 2009 photos and many of the plants are still 3 weeks ahead of schedule in my yard. The A. flatabella was in bloom June 9 last year.

Clem Venosa violacaea

Kayte, your verbiage is superb tonight!

This is my first bloom from this iris which came from the front of a house built in 1908. I was sprucing up the yard for the owners, investors who had remodeled the place and were putting it on the market. I have no idea when the iris was planted and didn't know what color it was until today. I dug them two years ago and they were about 6 layers deep in the bed in front of the house.

It does help to actually post the photo.

too tiny pixy - cannot see!
Enlarge!

whew - thought my eyes were going fast...

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better?

Clem Rhapsody

you betcha - here's another CLEM! henryii

Clem The President

Osteospermum Pumpkin Spice, or something that sounds like this that made me want to bake.

It is a good night for baking. Love the clems!
Here are some perky little pink snaps starting to bloom.

I'm so glad I started these from seed this year. This is 'Kiwi blue'. Why can't I remember the d**&& name of this easy-to-name plant??? ARRRHHHH! As soon as I hit 'send' I'm going to remember it and then kayte is going to swoop in with her superior memory capabilities !!! ARRRRHHH!

Cerinthe

Cerinthe! Cerinthe major!

And now the heuchera/berberis combo.

AARRHGGGH! I posted before I read your post! I did, I did! You people with your superior memory capabilities!!

I like that combo. I got Cerinthe see this year, too, but it will be much later than yours as I'm sowing outside after some damping off issues . . .

PNW garden pre rain, 4 shots funkily stitched.
this must be what it's like to see with eyes on the sides of your head...

i also have psychic abilities: Cerinthe major.
Mine are not open yet

I can only remember if it's your plant. If it's my middle name, there's only a 50/50 chance . . .

Cool picture, Kate!

I am in possession of memorafailya.

even better when you dig the coilombines. and the columbines need it too.
I wonder if any horticultural wizardry would happen if we just made up names for the plants we have?

Okay, then we can still be friends. As long as your memory is faulty at least 50% of the time, or you, too suffer from estrogen moments.
Katye, that is a cool photo. How did you do that? I frequently wish i had a wide angle lens.

Kathy, your cerinthe will catch up. I just get things off to an early start and then generally regret it. I had to dump about half my annual seedlings because of various issues. I'm planning to start another batch, but I may direct sow some things. All the cerinthe did okay, but I had them in the greenhouse on a heat mat the entire time.

Frankly, I think most people would not even notice if we made up names. Heck , I probably wouldn't notice either on most days. Really, I just try to keep the little grey cells running by remembering these things.

Pix - I also possess wide angle head o[ ]o something like that...

Actually, it's a stitch program from Canon, that came with my cr*ppy camera. It shoves those pictures together & alters one's reality. Unless you possess wide-angle head. then it's allllll normalcy.

i fried my seedlings.
starting over.
bad mom move.
really bad.
got an F.

You should have seen my etiolated sugar pumpkins . . . before the damped off. I have one of nine remaining . . .

If you think you are forgetting things and remembering later, in your 70's you can forget the remembering later. I used to know the name of all my rhodies and had no clue I would totally forget them now. The earlier ones I wrote down on my plot map but not the later ones.

Everything looks so good in all the gorgeous flower pictures above. I am in constant awe of the sheer variety of nature's bloom and of the gardeners' talents!! I think I will just look at pictures here on the net and ignore the winter-like blasts of rain preventing me from continuing with weeding. I am not usually such a wimp about the weather, don't know what's got into me this spring.

I have camas blooming. It is lovely but the flowers do not last long. I'll get a picture if they are still around when the rain stops.