Blooms 2011 #5

WOW clems already!!!!????

Peony bud, may be open in a few days. Inquirer claims this is a good year for peonies, I find less buds and late blooms this year.

Jen, today is my birthday. Last year I had home made bouquet of peonies, irises and clem blooms in water bowls made by my daughter for my birthday and it was quite a show last year.

Forgot the tag on this spirea, love the lime yellow glow on it.

My mail box garden, not a whole lot of freebies this year, usually would have lots of zinnias, although the sunflowers faithfully reseed each year.

GORGEOUS bouquet

From last year, irises from my neighbor, peonies from my garden and the others from friends; was just showing it for how last spring was. I wait for peonies to bloom each year and fill the house with as many as I can find and keep them in each room; I have about eight peony bushes of various ages, two weeks of a fantastic show and intoxicating fragrance.

And finally cherries, if the birds and the squirrel leave us some; I also have a blueberry bush with flowers and the raspberry cane with buds pending what the critters leave for us.

Happy Birthday!!!!!!!!

Thanks. I'm sorry didnt mean to high jack the thread.

I don't think you can hijack a NE thread

No one hijacks, it's just sharing the joys of gardening....Happy Birthday!! I agree Peoniae, the spirea has great color.

Thanks. Love the rhody buds, flowers are much paler than the buds.

Happy Birthday!!!!

Thanks Allison.

nice all!!

Happy Birthday, Rama.....love those clems!

Beautiful, P, and happiest of birthdays!

Thanks guys.

Front of house

Spiderwort

nice Jen.. my rody is just gearing up

Rhodie other corner of house

Neighbor's honeysuckle that hangs over our fence
Edited to add a word

This message was edited May 15, 2011 1:09 PM

nice jen

Yak hybrid blooming.....

The only bloom on my peony cross......

A noid dwarf iris......

love the dwarf iris

Thanks...wished they lasted longer.....

having the two photo threads is really throwing me for a loop

Nice shots guys. Jen your house front looks very nice.

Yeah, now that everyone has things blooming I really don't think we need to use the other 2 anymore(spring growth and one a day)

Well, now can we tell what it is by the flowers????
The weed, cutleaf geranium has pink flowers, so that's not it

guess I was wrong too.. weed??

I have something that looks like strawberry plant. It spreads the same way and is impossible to pull. Its undergrown some of my new geraniums and I cant roundup the stuff.

Not light enough to pix today.
It breaks off at ground level when pulled.

I don't think that's a weed...too pretty!

I'll post on the id forum see if someone can postively id it

Beauties!

Honeysuckle Manifich.

Tonto crape.