The April showers have brought May flowers (and allergies, sinus infections, and laryngitis) and poison ivy galore. I've never had laryngitis before. It doesn't hurt to talk, it's just that nothing comes out. I think it was just too many days of pollen, dust, and mold with no time to clear out and heal in-between. Oh well, catching up on my reading. And ignoring the phone.
Meanwhile, I am also finally getting caught up on posting and commenting on the pictures from the last few weeks. First, the morning glories. No flowers yet, but they are rapidly climbing the new tunnel structure I got this year.
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| May 21 |
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| May 30 |
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June 3
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Most of these have come and gone already. But, the knock out roses will be going strong well into December. Azaleas, pyracantha, chives, sage, Scotch broom, spirea, peonies, irises, and weigela have traded out their spring blooms for summer foliage. The columbines and garden phlox look like they'll keep blooming for a while. Plenty more other flowers are on their way to keep the color coming through the summer.
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| azalea |
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| pyracantha |
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| chives |
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| columbine |
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| knock out roses |
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| portulaca (moss roses) |
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| peony |
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| garden phlox |
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| sage |
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| Scotch broom |
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| spirea |
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| weigela |
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| alliums |
A pretty flower promising blackberries to come... The blackberries and raspberries have taken over the bed completely. While I've had a few strawberries this spring, I think they're going to have to be moved to a home of their own, along with the blueberries. The thorn-covered berry bushes are giving them too much shade. Not to mention making picking them a little painful!
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| buttercup buds |
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| itises |
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| Missouri primrose |
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| evening primrose |
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| knock out roses |
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| yellow knock out rose |
Queen Anne's Lace, roses, and astilbe. The roses were here when I bought the house.
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