May Blooms

(or, Procrastination Pays)

The fifteenth of May, time for Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day, sponsored by Carol at May Dreams Gardens. I'm glad I made my Iris post yesterday, as the iris are done today. just a few purple ones left.

Meanwhile in the garden, shrubs and trees are blooming. Here's the Kousa dogwood, aglow in the side yard:


The Virginia sweetspire that I got as a twig last year is blooming, too:


Several flowers have appeared in the last several days. Here's goatsbeard, blooming in front of Amsonia hubrichtii:


Gaillardia:


Here are the mini blooms of the white rose in front:


And the rootstock of the dead rose in the side yard. The rose was dead before I moved in, so I never knew what it was. But I like the simple red flowers that remain:


All this has been a teaser, my peony is the main attraction today:


The geranium has been blooming for a while, but it is so cheery I have to include it here:


And the Centaurea montana is hanging on:


I have edibles blooming, too. Here are the peas (yay!):


Even the back alley is full of blooms. Honeysuckle is pretty uncontrollable here, but this time of year I don't mind, it's scent is intoxicating:


I don't know what this is, blooming outside my neighbor's fence, but I like it:


And on the other side of the alley, another unidentified flower:


Now, to address that subtitle, Procrastination Pays. I took most of these photos this afternoon, but didn't make the post then. Then, when I was cleaning up at sunset, I saw a new flower, Missouri Primrose, blooming for the first time this year:


I hope your May is full of blooms, too!