Spring has finally arrived at Purdville. Unfortunately, I seem to have lost some of my photo gallery features when I switched to this new design. You can click on each thumbnail for a larger image, but then you have to use your browser’s Back button to get back to the thumbnails.
Also blooming:
- Creeping phlox
- Narcissus poeticus, ‘Irish Laddie’, and ‘Curly Lace’
- Lilacs: light purple, single white, double white
- Pulmonaria (lungwort)
- white violets
- Flowering almond
- And, of course, the mystery plant of the previous post
Inspired by the words of Elizabeth Lawrence, “We can have flowers nearly every month of the year,” Carol of May Dreams Gardens started Garden Bloggers Bloom Day. On the 15th of every month, garden bloggers from all over the world publish what is currently blooming in their gardens, and leave a link in Mr. Linky and the comments of May Dreams Gardens.
About Kathy Purdy
Kathy Purdy discovered the joys of writing in fourth grade, when she started corresponding with a former classmate. She's been writing letters ever since, first on looseleaf, then electronically, and now as weblog entries. That makes you, the blog reader, her pen pal. Her first independent (though frustrating) attempts at gardening were made in high school, though the gardening bug didn't bite hard until her mid-thirties, when she found herself mistress of a rural home on 15 acres. • USDA Hardiness Zone:4 • AHS Heat Zone: 3 • Location: rural; Southern Tier of NY • Geographic type: foothills of Appalachian Mountains • Soil Type: acid clay • Experience level: intermediate • Particular interests: colchicums, narcissus, cottage gardening, NY native plants, gardening with/for children
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Twitter: @cozycomfortshm
Here in Central Wisconsin we don’t let the cold weather stop us from gardening! Helped my sister move a whole lot of plants this week end. Gardening is a true passion! Have some pictures of my own and some plants and garden decor at my site. Have a good summer!
Twitter: @commonweeder
I would have been more worried about the frost warnings if I had as much in bloom as you do. What a floriferous spring garden! I hope you were lucky and the frost missed you as it did me. And now we are having lovely warm weather. I’ll be out planting. Some spring bloomers included.
commonweeder’s last blog post..A Cry for Help
I was sure I had commented here! I think it was to say how much I liked the blue veronica, I think it was.
You did comment, right under the photo of the veronica, and I replied.
Twitter: @indygardener
I sure hope you don’t get a freeze! It is good for spring and its blooms to finally make it to your garden. It would be just wrong for you to have a freeze now.
Carol, May Dreams Gardens’s last blog post..Have You Ever Hoed A Deck?
Never seen a trillium quite like yours before – lovely. I also have the Bonfire euphorbia. It gets better every year and puts on quite a show. As you say, it’s a keeper!
Garden Junkie’s last blog post..Garden Bloggers Bloom Day – May 2009
Twitter: @clayanlimestone
Love this spring display Kathy…;some of my favorites. The T grandiflorum is spectacular dressed in pink! gail
Gail’s last blog post.."And now, here’s something we hope you’ll really like!" Bloom Day
Twitter: @suburbangarden
You’ve got some interesting twists on a couple of old favorites. My Jack in the Pulpits don’t have that much purple in them, and I’ve never seen a pink Mertensia. I find it funny that you have listed the Brunnera but not the gorgeous Trilliums in that one photo. They look lovely together.
Mr. McGregor’s Daughter’s last blog post..May Bloom Day 2009
Twitter: @reddirtramblin
So very pretty. So very spring. Is it true that your temp is going down to 31F tonight?~~Dee
Dee/reddirtramblings’s last blog post..Troy-Bilt Trimmer, a Review
Worse than that. Weather service has issued a freeze warning: “Tonight, with clear skies and light winds temperatures will fall below freezing. Low temperatures late tonight will be in the upper 20s to around 30 degrees. Some rural valleys could be even colder.” And I live in a rural valley. When they predicted a light frost I got 28F, so . . .