Bounty of may blooms

Posting photos from the garden today–will hope to add captions when time permits.

  • Bleeding hearts bloomed later this year–this one from Sister Cate
  • Attempted cherry graft–appears to be taking
  • Another graft that is leafing out
  • Golden chains may be weedy, but they are glorious for about a week each year
  • Abutilon vitifolium from seed blooming in the orchard bed
  • Asian pears–this espalier tree grafted with multiple cultivars has not been productive at all–I think it must be too shady where it lives
  • Many bleeding heart flowers
  • The cherry set a lot of fruit, but dropped almost all of them before they ripened
  • Dramatic columbine in the driveway bed
  • Jacob’s ladder near the driveway–this has been a strong performer for ten+ years.
  • Geranium phaeum–this plant grew larger than ever this year and bloomed for more than a month. I am hoping it sets seeds, as I’d like more of them.
  • This photo gives a sense of the size of this 5-year-old plant of G. phaeum
  • Dame’s rockets in the Douglas fir bed
  • Brunnera in the Doug fir bed
  • I thought this hosta in the Doug fir bed had died, but it came back pretty strongly this year.
  • More dark columbines–these are in the Doug fir bed
  • Lavender dame’s rockets in the Doug fir bed
  • Horned poppy in the memory garden–great color and form
  • Camassias blooming in the memory garden
  • Close-up of the Quamash blooms. I’m hoping they perennialize here.
  • Amazing Antoinette tulips–they turned pink and still look amazing.
  • Line of tulips–I hope to add more bulbs in fall 2019
  • Santa Barbara daisies in the memory garden
  • A few of the seedling columbines are spectacular, including this impressive white one.
  • A prolific-blooming pink seedling.
  • And even more prolific light pink…
  • This one was showy for a long time. I’m letting all of them go to seed and hoping to get some interesting seedlings.
  • This columbine looks great with the catmint.
  • The warm weather cut shortened the duration of the lupine show this year, but the colors were great.
  • The Chaenorhinum bloomed nicely this year. They are delicate and subtle. I’ve since cut them back and am hoping for a second flush of bloom.
  • The only seedling oriental poppy turned out to be a fairly standard orangey-red. I have a dozen or so more seedlings to plant out this year.
  • Arboretum seedlings popping up–lots of really interesting looking ones this year!
  • More arboretum seedlings.
  • And more.
  • And more.
  • The boxwood cuttings that I found last year appear to have taken finally! One of the, at least, is getting new leaves.
  • This arboretum seedling looks like an Aesculus of some kind.
  • More big seedlings.
  • And more…
  • Coelogyne flowers. This orchid bloomed for over a month this year.
  • Nasturtium seedling in the greenhouse.
  • I divided the Pleione formosana pot this spring, and it was PACKED with bulbs and bulblets.
  • I ended up getting six pots of Pleione formosana divisions from the one pot. I’m hoping for a LOT more flowers next year.
  • Rhody in the woodland garden.
  • Leon’s lovely koi pond.