Garden Bloggers Bloom Day - May 2015

I am happy to report that this May has started out so very nice and it continues with a good variety of blooms to share on Bloom Day. Bloom day as most of us know is encouraged by Carol at May Dreams Gardens.

Now follow me into the garden for a look at what I find blooming today. This is the back gate and you know what they say about back gate visitors, they are the best of friends.

Clematis are giving a nice show here this spring.

I have always wanted a clematis that climbs up a tall trellis. I thought the one above would do the trick but it only climbs about 4 feet then it promptly squats and blooms. I forgive it though since it is so darned pretty. 

I have also always wanted one to climb a small tree. Ramona is such a good sport. She was on a shorter trellis and always balled up so this spring I took the trellis away. She didn't mind and she wound herself up the Japanese Red Maple where she is blooming happily. 

Now this Clematis I have nothing to complain about. I bought her for her name, 'Patricia Ann Fretwell'.  She climbed up to the top of this trellis and puts on a show each spring. If your peek around the left side and look across the garden you can see a few irises blooming and an amsonia.

Speaking of iris, I have a few scattered around the garden.

This Japanese iris is 'Gull wings'. It is so pretty and quite prolific. 

If you look across Kate who is having it's best spring bloom ever you can see this big white bearded iris. 

I have no idea what its name is. It came from my daughter's friend. These are huge and I am sure they wish they had more sun as they flop toward the sunlight. I have to stake them yearly to keep them off the ground. The heads are so big they just can stay upright.

Then the other side of the coin are the much smaller pale yellow iris that has a sweet little pinkish geranium blooming at it's feet. 

A couple other iris colors. These were also gifts.

It isn't just herbaceous plants blooming right now. I have several shrubs that are blooming their limbs off. I am showing only a small section of this Arrowhead Viburnum. It is just full of these lovely blooms. This shrub is huge and it is a bird and bee magnet.

A couple of my favorite weigelias are first this red blooming shrub. It is so old and gnarly looking when it isn't blooming I have threatened to take it out. Yet when it blooms like this it always makes me melt and I can't bring myself to dig it out. One of these years it will retire itself and I will miss it.

Secondly this young whippersnapper shows off all summer. First with these lovely pink blooms. Then it continues to be pretty with the green and white foliage. 

The Buckeye blooms shortly after the hummingbirds arrive. They just love the tubular blooms. 

This Ninebark always puts on a blooming show. 

And then there is the Baptisia that I planted last spring. It's pale yellow blooms look real pretty with the Tricolor beech tree and willow behind it.

In the fairy garden the fairy garden there are even blooms. Fairy Gardens you ask. Why yes, but they are a subject for another post. 

Thanks for hanging with me on this rather long post. Happy Garden Bloom Day to all of you. I hope your garden is blooming up a storm.