Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day. May.

‘ Everything is flower most recklessly ; if it were voices alternatively of color , there would be an unlikely scream into the center of the Nox ’ . Rainer Maria Rilke .

In May , every day brings new delights in the garden , last week ’ s splendid sun and then a second of rain has worked deception .

Apple peak is everywhere and is one of the joyousness of May ; my trees are all very honest-to-goodness . This one has fallen over at some time in its prospicient spirit , but is always full of blossom and has large fruit like a sweet Bramley .

Cydonia oblonga ‘Vranja’

I intend Quince blossom is even pretty than that of the Malus pumila tree . My Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree is not very old , but I am promising that this year I will have plentitude of fragrant quinces .

Cydonia oblonga ‘ Vranja ’

I have two huge courtly Horse Chestnut trees which I would never have planted , but I do enjoy them at this time of the year with their beautiful ‘ candle ’ . In autumn they search abominable when the they are attacked by Bleeding Canker . How leftover that they come back as full as new each spring .

Cydonia oblonga ‘Vranja’

Aesculus hippocastrum

When the sky is aristocratical as it is today , the shrub , Abutilon x suntenselooks marvellous .

Abutilon xsuntense

Cydonia oblonga ‘Vranja’

Cydonia oblonga ‘Vranja’

‘ My real treasures of other May are my other peony . Paeonia smouthiiis one of the oldest recorded hybrid at over 160 years old . Still , it remains quite rarefied . It has finely issue foliage and single red peak which are exquisitely fragrant .

Paeonia smouthii

Paeonia mascula ssp.masculahas pass on similar to those of the more well - known ‘ Molly the Witch’,Paeonia mlokosewitschii , but it has cherry reddened flowers instead of lemon chicken .

Aesculus hippocastrum

Aesculus hippocastrum

Paeonia masculassp.mascula

This old Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree peony never fail to produce its dinner denture pink flowers .

All my irises have tidy sum of bud and I get so excited waiting for them to open . The first of course , are the pricey little midget ace .

Abutilon xsuntense

Abutilon xsuntense

Iris‘Austrian Sky ’

The Californian hybrids are early flowering too . This next one isIris‘Banbury Gem ’

Iris ‘ Banbury Gem ’

Paeonia smouthii

Paeonia smouthii

Corydalisare early give treasures , but this one , Corydalis temulifolia‘Chocolate Stars ’ flower in May . In natural spring , I think it is at its good with adorable bronze leaf . This suffer some of its affluence and turns green as the season progresses and it starts to blossom .

Corydalis temulifolia‘Chocolate Stars ’

Most of the epimediums have end blooming now and we are love their endearing fresh Modern leafage . I have a big - flowered late botch calledEpimedium‘Amber Queen ’ which is still looking good . It is such a gorgeous colour .

Paeonia mascula ssp. mascula

Paeonia masculassp.mascula

Epimedium‘Amber Queen ’

To my pleasure I have found a seedling nearby which is not quite the same but endearing too .

Epimedium seedling

Next to theCorydalisand theEpimediumisEuphorbia griffithii‘Fireglow ’ . I love its orange heyday in spring .

Euphorbia griffithii ‘ Fireglow ’

AnotherEuphorbiawhich is delicious at this time of the class is the gay , yellow litteEuphorbia polychroma .

Iris ‘Austrian Sky’

Iris‘Austrian Sky’

Euphorbia polychroma

I produce bergenias for the leaves that turn ruby in winter so I am always pleasantly surprised by the flowers in spring .

Aquilegias are everywhere in so many unlike colours . I permit them crossbreed as I love them all . This dark one is very pretty .

Iris ‘Banbury Gem’

Iris ‘Banbury Gem’

Even pretty are their close cousin the goody little Semiaquileagias . This one is the dusky pinkSemiaquilegia ecalcarata . It is light lived but with a bit of portion it will sow around .

Semiaquilegia incalcarata

I have intercourse geums and there are some reasonably new hybrids . My latest is a double peach seedling from the wonderful nursery , The Beeches , near Saffron Walden . By the way , this is my favorite nursery , it is full of many rare and strange plants . I am planning to go later this calendar month with Julie who write the wondrous web log , Peonies and Posies . I had better set about saving up .

Corydalis temulifolia ‘Chocolate Stars’

Corydalis temulifolia‘Chocolate Stars’

minuscule poppies seed themselves everywhere in bound . This orangePapaver rupifragumcan become a scrap of a nuisance . But it is very pretty .

Ppapaver rupifragum

The jaundiced Welsh poppy are just as invading but I permit them fight it out with bluebells , Tellima grandiflora , BrunneraandBlupleurum rotundifolium . There are also yellow tulip in this bed which come back every twelvemonth . There are still some tulip see good . Here are a few .

Epimedium ‘Amber Queen’

Epimedium‘Amber Queen’

30 Responses toGarden Bloggers’ Bloom Day. May.

I can sense your excitement with the act of endearing picture . I feel it too ! I have intercourse everything but was interested in the lovely ‘ incursive ’ Papaver ruprifragum which I have not consciously reckon before . I have just the area for it to encroach upon with an orange and royal theme . I must await out for seeds . Also glad to have the name of the small Iris ‘ Banbury Gem ’ which looks the same as one I have from ‘ the plant table ’ !

So much to be shake about with all these flowers … . genus Epimedium blooming here too and it braved many a very cold nighttime !

It ’s a fabulous prison term of year Chloris and your garden looks as if it is in full party mode . We have two chestnut just outside the garden . Like yours they see fab at the present moment but ours suffer from the same woes that Pauline mentions . I mean that I may possibly have iris ‘ Banbury Gem ’ too . It came to me with the recording label ‘ Pacific Coast Iris ’ and looks most similar to yours . The flowers are momentaneous perfection . Have fun greenhouse visiting with Julie .

Epimedium seedling

Epimedium seedling

Oh beautiful ! Love the quince flower and iris ! felicitous GBBD !

Your May garden is magnificent ! All those peonies ! And still tulips ! We share few flowers in common it appears but I do have some bergenia ( just 3 ) , which I ’m trying again after a long hiatus – unfortunately , they ’re already break down a bit crispy .

Euphorbia griffithii ‘Fireglow’