Early May Garden

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ajuga, alliums, Azaleas, burgundy glow ajuga, carpet rose, chicks and hens, faerie wands, fairy wand, garden, gardening, landscaping, oaks, perennial, rose, sedum, silver mound, trumpet vine

Happy Mother’s Day! Flowers are the most common present to give this day; whether fresh floral arrangements, hanging baskets/planters or potted for the garden. Let’s check out what I have in my garden this week.

This Week In My Garden…

Lush pillows of silver mound awoke.

Lush Silver Mound

Sedum is sweeping across my perennial garden, just behind my rock border.

Sedum

Trumpet vines are timidly showing their leaves.

Trumpet Vine

Abundant Alliums (fairy wands) are beautiful full purple globes dancing is the wind.

Alliums

The first rose of the year  opened, welcoming the new deck.

First Rose of the Year

The small chicks of last year, fill out to be adult hens.

Chicks become Hens

Burgundy Glow Ajuga races towards the sky.

Burgundy Glow Ajuga

The white azalea joins the party of pink, lavender and red azaleas.

White Azalea joins the Party

The oaks are stretching out and showcasing their new foliage and hugging my shade garden.

Three Oaks

Of course this isn’t all… The bleeding heart is still wear its heart on its sleeve. The Japanese Maple waves hello and goodbye by the lane. The long blooming grape hyacinths are the welcoming committee to all the returning perennials…

What’s arriving and in bloom this week where you are? What are your Mother’s Day plans?

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This Week in My Garden: Azaleas & Alliums

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allium, azalea, blooming, faerie wands, fairy wands, flowers, garden, gardening, landscaping, perennial

May Day Gardening
This week in my garden… three out of my eight Azaleas have begun to bloom, two red, one light pink.

Red Azaleas

Azalea Bloom

Blooming Beauty

The Allium are budding. Theses are some of my favorite summer blooms. Riotflower, these are the “fairy wands” you like!

Allium Bud

My last tulips are in bloom. The magic carpet roses are already branching out and forming buds. My perennial garden needs some work, lot’s to thin out and transplant into new gardens. Silver mound and yarrow are starting to fill out. I’m looking forward to this gardening season…

My shade garden is really filling out this year. Some hostas are already full, ferns are awaking and stretching out their arms. A few red coral bells have already begun to bloom. The bleeding heart is still blooming in the center of my garden.

My urn planters and container gardening are green and lush. Some Salvia has already begun to bloom, I can’t wait until it calls in the butterflies. I haven’t planted in my hanging baskets yet, one has become home for a bird’s nest. I enjoy watching the birds just outside my door.

What’s blooming this week in your garden?