Happy birthday to your Mom, Igor! 😀
She looks so happy amid all those flowers.

Happy to see the bloom photos, great topic Tim.
And I also love Chives and their flowers, nice to see them.

OK, got a few pics too:

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Won't post the VERY WATERLOGGED poppies...ruined by 3.5 inches of rain 😯

Barb

chives and onions/aliums are cool flowers, you're right Barb!

Hi Barb,

blooming Trachy.................you show off! 😉

Love the Rhodo bloom..............they are blooming here too.....lots of color this time of year.

Thought I'd throw that one in there, Tim. 😆

The rhodos and alliums are so close in color...love it.

Barb

That trachy is getting huge! Love the flowers. 😀

Thanks Aaron.
Quite a few more than last year.
And if you look closely, you'll see how lazy I was in not cutting last year's off (can never find the clippers) 😆

Still hoping that one day it'll become one of those rare female/male on the same tree. (the term escapes me right now...)
John's did.
Haven't seen his this year.

Barb

I FINALLY have some things to add.... The city was under frost warnings last night as well 👿

Toka Plum

Rhododendron PJM elite. The pic doesnt do the colour any justice

Daffodils going strong


John Pear. I never realized how bad ass pear trees look. When they bud they look like a giant octopus tree...

Jesse! O, my Goh! You are only 5 degree north of my place and 1,5 month behind my garden season! But the Spring is there finally. Congrats!

We are a month or so behind our average. Things that come out later like the ash trees are alright, but it looks like most of my fruit trees are going to bloom at relatively the same time.

No frost this morning, just some on the east facing roofs, nothing near the ground thank god....

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nice Rhodo Jesse........glad to see it survives in your climate.

nice red blooms on your Echinocereus Jim!

Glad you've got something to post Jesse, and your cold spell is finished.
What a brutal month May was for a lot of folks.
Very pretty rhodo too.

Jim, that gets lovelier each day.

Barb

Everything looks great folks. Amazing how varied our climates are....Insane!

I'm posting a few blooming pics from May and now the first week of June. We finally got some much needed rain from TS Andrea so I'm psyched. Things are way lush here in the Garden State!

Trachy with Red cannas in back and Black and Blue salvia in front. Cannas in ground four years now without digging up. They're like cement!
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Frontyard musas (3rd year in ground)
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Castors blooming already
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Musas blooming in back garden 2nd year in a row but 3 months earlier.
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Pond Irises in bloom~ these are the latest ones that don't bloom until end May
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Oleander blooming and growing like mad
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Don't know what this is but it is popping up through ivy, pachysandra and Periwinkle out front. Looks tropicalish????
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Black and Blue salvia, love this stuff, grows like mad!
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One of 3 yuccas in bloom
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just some different lilies blooming
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Castor beans blooming
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Castors a week ago, theyve almost doubled in size due to rain and humidity!
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Cordyline Blooming
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Tulip tree out back of shed blooming
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Magnolia blooming
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Really nice mike!

THat "tropical looking seedling" is a datura im pretty sure, if not, its a brug.

great photos Mike.............that Cordyline bloom is so cool 8)