Going and Coming

In going, going, gone soon category in the deck garden:

 

In the coming soon category:

And in the Energizer Bunny category:

And then there's this poor butterfly:

The loss of the bottom half of one wing doesn't seem to affect it too much.  It did fly rather strangely though many of them do that.

New Faces in my Garden

 Monday brought out these new faces to smile at me.

First iris blooms.

Many more to open.

Funny thing about these irises, I have no recollection of where they came from.  They may have been here but in a different location and I moved them without knowing their color.  They are lovely.  More irises to open up soon including a white one from blogger Vicki.

This is a new flower for me and for this season according to the garden center where I purchased this.  Tag below. I planted it on Mother's Day and it had that bud.  It took this long to open.

Not sure why these wave petunias are speckled unless it was the spray from my insect repellant.  Black flies are bad this year.

Chive blossoms are always lovely.

I know these little flowers as million bells.

These volunteers just keeping coming up here despite the weeding. Name escaping me at present.  I have other clumps that have yet to bloom.

This is the first year for my lupine to bloom.  I think there's a white flower coming too.

And I planted dahlias last week and this one has broken through the ground already.  They love this soil.

My Gardens

Took a walk around the yard to capture what's in bloom and what's growing well.  

Here in reverse order (thanks to Blogger) are my photos.

Along the driveway this wildflower/weed is now in bloom with it's yellow flowers. I pull this out in most of the beds but let it grow along here. The standing stone is a remnant from the past of a fence line. 

Last year a neighbor gifted me with forget me nots which are now blooming along the driveway.  There are also some dark purple pansies there that seeded themselves from last year's transplants. Sorry that the photo doesn't do justice to the colors.

And finally farther up the driveway are these blooming narcissus.

On the front porch are the pots I filled on Sunday.  I thought this geranium was very striking.

This bleeding heart was a transplant from another neighbor last year. 

In the garden bed under the hemlock trees some of the monster hosta are shooting up. I have six, each a different variety, that I planted three years ago.  I'm hoping that this year they show off their size better. Not sure which one this is but it should get at least  30" high and can grow to a width of 40"-60".

Here is my Mother's Day gift from Emily, a primula that loves shade and will spread.  It's needed in this bed.

This Lenten Rose was an earlier Mother's Day gift.

The flowers tend to face the ground.

In the Hosta Garden there are a wide variety of hosta of all sizes.  Most of these came to me free from a local gardener.  They were tiny when I got them and some of them will remain tiny,

These blue flowers whose name escapes me right now are enjoying the Hosta Garden location.

I repainted my shutter angel this year.

My bird bath has a different location this year.  Another rhododendren died this winter so now we have only the one you see on the left. I moved a volunteer vinca vine here and the pansies.

Hoping to have lupine blooms this year.

This is a daffodil without the trumpet center.

The bleeding heart here in the Deck Garden is huge. Blooms just now showing.

More pots planted on Sunday afternoon.

On Saturday I figured it was time to hang the hummingbird feeder though none had been spotted. At least two hours after hanging this, the hummingbird came by.  As we ate lunch on Monday on the deck there were two vying for dominance of the feeder.

Finally here is our view. The green colors are returning. Temperature today is to be in the 80ºs!