Welcome May!

Welcome May! This pretty clematis belongs to my neighbour but it blooms on my side of the fence too, lucky for me! In fact I wonder if I have even more blooms on my side than theirs, poor neighbour, ha ha. I bought some peonies a couple of years ago and I was really hoping they would bloom for the first time this Spring but they didn't. Maybe next year. I did however find huge peony blooms in front of my local library so I added a photo. My new geraniums are blooming in my front bed and the bees seem to love them. My Hansa roses started blooming earlier than ever before, with the first bloom opening in late April. My Veggie garden is all planted except for the cucumbers, which I need to buy because my seeds failed to sprout. That happens sometimes when the seeds get old. Happy gardening!

Clematis

Raindrops on Columbine Leaves

Iris and Hardy Gladiolas

Chives

Hardy Geranium

Hardy Geranium with Bee

Therese Bugnet Rose

Huge Peony blooms at my local library 

Hansa 

Backyard Blooms

June is a busy month in the garden, with the weeds growing as quickly as the flowers, and the birds waking me up much too early in the morning. Here are some photos taken in my backyard in early June, with the exception of the last three photos which were from May. First of all is my Hansa Rose which I just love for its fragrance and disease tolerance. It laughs at black spot in my rainy garden. Next is a lovely pink Clematis that has snuck beneath the fence from my neighbours yard, thank you neighbours! Third is a new flower I'm growing this year, Anemone De Caen or Blue poppy. This is the first bloom and it isn't even quite open yet but I just had to take a picture.

Last of all are the tulips.  I was scratching my head this Spring, wondering why I had bought yellow tulips, which isn't at all like me. Then as the days went by, a transformation happened, and those yellow tulips started to show more and more hints of pretty pink along the edges. Not only that but each bulb produced  more than one flower, always a bonus if you ask me. What are your favourite June blooms in your garden?

Hansa

Clematis

Anemone De Caen

Gladiolas and Iris

Allium Unifolium

Columbine or Aquilegia

Daylily's first bloom

Elderberry Sambucus nigra 'Eva'

Fleabane or  Erigeron Pink Jewel

Chickadee parent below and fledgling above

Tulips Antoinette

Tulips Antoinette after the transformation

Narcissus Poeticus Recurvus

June Blooms

Hello happy gardeners! I'm sharing my June blooms along with Glenda at Tootsie Time for fertilizer Friday.  Once again I am delighted with the blooms of my favourite rose, a rugosa rose by the name of Hansa.  It started blooming in May this year, a little earlier than usual, put on a big show, and will continue to bloom to some degree on into the fall. The fragrance never ceases to captivate me. The sucker I dug up two years ago from this plant had its very first bloom this year, and I am excited to see how it will balance out my original plant. I   must admit I am a little OCD when it comes to achieving balance in my gardens, or anywhere for that matter, ha ha.

Hansa

                                                                

Allium Unifolium

I tried to wrangle all these little bulbs together in one area, but alas I have given up and let them be.

Sanguineum 'Max Frie'  Geranium

I started with just one of these plants years ago, but with a bit of division and some self-seeding, I now have quite a few. They bloom from May until frost with deadheading.

Aquilegia alpina Columbine

I find columbines difficult to photograph as their heads are always facing down.

Iris 'Blue Ribbon'

A closer look

Argyranthemum Madeira Deep Pink Marguerite Daisy

These are growing in my little green wagon, and once they fill out, I will take another picture with the wagon and all.

Redvein Enkianthus

These are the flowers on a very slow growing shrub I have in the front bed. 

Sambucus nigra 'Eva'  Elderberry

Please try to ignore the ugly fence and shed in this picture :)  This elderberry was such a pathetic looking little thing when I bought it in 2009,  but  now it needs some serious pruning. I am ever hopeful it will attract American Robins when the berries ripen.

Plum

This is my first attempt to espalier a fruit tree, never mind that it's an annoying sucker that keeps coming up right underneath the fence from our neighbour's harshly pruned plum tree.

So what is blooming in your garden this June?

April Blues and Greens

       As you may have figured out already,  blue is one of my favorite colors, even if the "blue" of flowers is more or less purple.  I finally found a decent bloom on my camellia this year!  Most are tinged with brown spots or brown edges. The sweet woodruff is one of those plants that can get a little aggressive in the growth department, but it makes a lovely ground cover for shady areas. I love the interesting spring growth on columbine and balloon flower. Thanks for stopping by!

Anemone Blanda 'blue star'

Glory of the Snow Chinodoxa

Hyacinth

Grape Hyacinth (Muscari)

Camellia Pink Perfection

Bright red growth on  Pieris 'Forest Flame'

Chive buds

Sweet Woodruff

Columbine (Aquilegia)

Balloon Flower (platycodon 'Fuji Blue')