African Garden + woodland wildflowers

May Bloom Day 2009

The Squirrelhaven Woodland Garden is in full bloom. Compared with the photos from last year's post, things are slightly ahead this year and much, much larger. (Probably the result of all that rain last year.) With such an embarrassment of blooms, I decided to put them into collages. Click on any image to enlarge.

Left top to bottom: Mayapple (Podophyllum peltatum) (it wouldn't be May Bloom Day without one), Trillium grandiflorum, buds of Melianthemum racemosum f/k/a Smilacina racemosa
Center: Disporum sp.
Right: Flowering Quince (Chaenomeles sp.) still blooming but starting to form fruit, Jack in the Pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum)

Left top: Tiarella 'Oakleaf;' left bottom: Thalictrum thalictroides f/k/a Anemonella thalictroides; Center: Shooting Stars (Dodecatheon media album)Right: Epimedium niveum? and Lily of the Valley (Convallaria majalis)

Right top to bottom: Brunnera 'Jack Frost,' Polemonium reptans 'Stairway to Heaven'
Center top to bottom: Brunnera 'Looking Glass,' Brunnera 'Hadspen Cream,' and the last of the Bluebells (Mertensia virginica)
Right: Pulmonaria 'Roy Davidson' with a Hellebore

Top row: Corydalis 'Blackberry Wine' with Thalictrum thalictroides (Anemonella) 'Oscar Shoaf,' Labrador Violets (Viola labradorica), a big Allium whose name I've written down somewhere*Center: Phlox divaricata 'Plum Perfect'Bottom row: Bearded Iris "IWHWIBTP" (It Was Here When I Bought The Property), Iris cristata 'Eco Little Bluebird,' Thalictrum 'Thundercloud' in bud.

Left top to bottom: Prairie Smoke (Geum triflorum) just starting to smoke, Hellebore, Iris siberica buds, Geranium macrorrhizumCenter top to bottom:Epimedium 'Lilafee,' CrabappleRight: Thalictrum thalictroides f/k/a Anemonella rosea, Dicentra 'King of Hearts'

Top row: Heucherella 'Sunspot' with Phlox divaricata 'Clouds of Perfume,' Thalictrum/Anemonella 'Cameo,' Dicentra 'Bountiful,' not 'Zestful' as I've been calling it. (I found the tag when I pulled up some Lamium.)Center: Heucherella 'Burnished Bronze'Bottom row: Geranium maculatum, Tiarella 'Pink Brushes,' Tiarella 'possibly Iron Butterfly'

Left top: Sedum kamtschaticum in bud, left bottom, Calycanthus floridus 'Athens' in budCenter: Celadine Poppy (Stylophorum diphyllum)Right: Little Merrybells (Uvularia perfoliata)

Left: Tree Peony (Peony suffruticosa possibly 'Chojuraku') in bud ( edit. I just saw a photo of 'Chojuraku' on A Study in Contrasts. It doesn't look like mine, so I think mine might be 'Ofujinishiki.' )Right top: in bud, Peony 'Mons. Jules Elie' (Yes, I've finally decided that's who it is.)Bottom right: seedhead of Pulsatilla vulgarisThings blooming but not shown: Geranium sylvaticum 'Mayflower' (identical to Geranium maculatum except for a slight difference in the leaf), and Viola soraria. The Columbines (Aquilegia vulgaris hybrids) and several Clematises are in bud.While yellow seems to be the color of April, around here, pink is the color of May. Speaking of May, take a virtual trip to May Dreams Gardens to visit Carol, the host of Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day.

*It's Allium aflatunense 'Purple Sensation.'