May is an overwhelming month in the garden–so many plants blooming and looking their best and some many fun surprises.
I can’t remember the Brugmansia “Charles Grimaldi” blooming this early before! 
About ten years after planting the seed, this Paeonia lutea is blooming! 
The Weeds of the Northwest FaceBook group helped me identify this as an alien Teucrium. I need to root it out of the Douglas fir bed. It is spreading via roots at an alarming rate. 
Another spreader and considered particularly noxious by many gardeners, this is Oxalis corniculata. 
Geranium phaeum. 
Irresistible Abutilon vitifolium “Suntense” 
I don’t remember this iris blooming before! It is white and soft blues. 
One of the McKana’s Giants 
Heuchera sanguinea 
White-flowered Abutilon vitifolium 
First Paeonia flower. 
Popular tulip corner. 
White borage. 
Leftover artist tulip in the Douglas fir bed. 
Polemonium “Apricot Delight” 
Here is one leaf from one of my Sinningia speciosa seedlings at work. I love how the light came through and highlighted the veining. 
Unknown tree seedling from one of the Arboretum raids, likely. Beautiful leaves and interesting bark/trunk. 
Glacier cherry tree has a few cherries that appear to be set…but it has fooled me before. 
Aronia shrub at the center of this photo, with white flower umbels. 
Goumi berry shrub smothered in flowers. 
More Abutilon blooms. 
Tulip “Antoinette” leftovers from last year…still my favorite. 
My new gardening partner. This crow comes down a few times a day to check things out and I get him dog food. But he seems genuinely curious about our human busy-ness. 
This plant has hundreds of flowers–just spectacular today! 
Another gorgeous, unknown Arboretum seedling. 
Massive Coelogyne cristata blooming in the greenhouse. 
Airplant in the greenhouse. 
Hippeastrums starting to bloom in the greenhouse. 
