What's bloomin' in May?!

Here is what is blooming this morning when I went out to take the baby pictures.

Abutilon megapotamicum - Trailing abutilon - Chinese Lanterns

Pelargonium x hortorum 'Horizon Red Ice'

Impatiens niamniamensis -Congo Cockatoo

Cannas are starting to flower.

Another. I'm starting to get this mixing colors thing down. LOL.

Day lillies coming out for me now.

Butterfly bushes attracting in the butterflies. 'Black knight'

Magnolias in full bloom. All the flowers were high up so I couldn't get a real good picture.

Funny thing is my son said he was tired of smelling the plants. LOL> Confederate jasmine, magnolias and viburnum all stinking up the place I guess?

Not flowering but the nanners are coming back with a vengeance. That little heat wave seems to have helped everything along. We've been getting a good amount of rain down here on the coast too.

more Clematis blooming today

Gallardia - 2nd season from seed

from the looks of how this one is laying on it's side...I believe the cats were having midnight fun in the flower bed...LOL

Lynchis and Tritoma are looking nice together, a little russian sage blooming too

Xeramtheum- pretty abutilon. I have that one, too. I can only grow them in pots, abutilon in the ground does not work for me.

All my abutilon is in pots too and winters over in the greenhouse. My Abutilon 'Souvenir de Bonn' has a cracking bud .. looks like it might be open tomorrow! Can't wait. It's an orange one with the variegated green & yellow foliage.

X

I have various clematis blooming (some of them looking a bit puny because the !@#$!#@! rabbits keep chewing the stems), rose 'New Dawn' is putting on a nice show and my back yard smells like roses :-) Texas gold columbine (Aquilegia chrysantha) is also very showy, as is Oenothera speciosa (albeit very weedy and invasive). The lilies that didn't get devoured by the voles last winter are growing nicely and I'm looking forward to their flowers.

Here's Hippeastrum x ackermaniii ...

TomH: the Oenethera Siskiyou is what I have, the pink one, and I pull it out by the handfuls and still it's everywhere. Lovely in bloom but, wow, it will eat your whole yard.


Here's our front lamp post with white peonies and Allium `Mars':

I love peonies .. I really wish I could grow them here.

X

Ahh, Peonies!! So sweet! I used to have some that were transplanted to my Mom's back yard. over the years the poisen Ivy has taken them over though. **sigh**

Believe it or not, we have some braces in there to hold the peonies up, but they're just so full of blooms this year, even with help, they're falling all over the place. Oh, well. Next year my garden will be perfect ^_^

It rained like crazy here this afternoon .. I got 1 inch in my back yard in 1 1/2 hours!

Abutilon 'Souvenir de Bonn' opened and is as beautiful as I remembered it last year. I love the veining on the petals and the bi-color leaves.

The big excitement is that all of my brugmanisa are Y'ing and a few already have large buds! This one is a double pink. It's got about 3 more weeks to go.

I noticed in my evening "walkabout" that my Early Girl tomato is living up to its name.

X

Good old ditch lilies. :)

Shamrocks, Achillea, Astilbe, and Nasturtiums. :)

Decorative dahlia:

Clarkia `Confetti' winter sown now starting to bloom:

Another winter sown plant, Myosotis:

NOID single rose:

Rednyr: I loe the color of that Clematis blossom.
And your Dahlia, Hemo.

I have Pixie lilies blooming this morning. All but the reds.
Deb

..and Cleome....

Yep, gotta love to ditch lilies. Does the NOID rose have a fragrance? When mine bloom they perfume the whole yard while they are around. That's a pretty pink cleome deb. Did you get much rain yesterday deb? I got 1.5 inches in 45 minutes!

X

My Lemon Cucumbers are blooming.
One of my favorites, My grandmother used to grow these every summer and they are so delicious!. This is the first year that I have grown them myself.

These were flowers that have bloomed in April and May. It is Erysimum, now I can't get the correct variety!!! Who can help??

Karin ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I found the flower in the Plant Files. It is a Perennial Wallflower .... 'Bowles' Mauve' Erysimum. I wish my photo was better. It is lovely!!!

This message was edited May 16, 2009 8:54 PM

X - your Abutilon 'Souvenir de Bonn' is awesome! I grew just the plain jane orange from seed last year which did pretty well considering...but this year the wash basin they are in is something else! I hear fall crafting calling my name..dont' know what it's saying but I'll think of something LOL

and believe it or not this Peruvian Daffodil from Lowes I planted this Feb. decided to say hello....

This passi overwintered well in it's container in the GH....the one in the ground...it's somewhere in plant heaven with my Dutchmens Pipe :(

My mom bought this at the Cola plant sale...they didn't know what color it would be...I think I'm stealing it from her yard when she's sleeping tonight LOL

Make sure you fake some deer prints or something like that.

Lol .. deer prints .. hmmm. That Peruvian Daffodil is beautiful! Does it have a fragrance? Will it come back next spring or is it a one off? I'm growing passiflora for the first time this year .. my Lady Margaret is in the greenhouse and beautiful. I've got Passiflora aurantia, subpeltata, foetida var. gossypifolia and alata all grown from seed .. I went after the whites, reds and pinks. Took some heavy duty trading to get the seeds as well .. but I know it's gonna be worth it once they start flowering. Any tips n tricks you can offer would be appreciate .. do you know if they like acid or alkaline fertilizer?

Core - what me fake? oh pulease...LOL

X don't know a whole lot about Passifloras - I just lucked out with this one - as for the Daf - it should come back= if the voles, cats and my watering skills don't kill it first....LOL