Flowers from Week of 5/07/2023

Finally getting more than daffs, wild violets and dandelions in bloom. First are the tiny flowers: flowering almond, bleeding heart and forget-me-not

Finding this bleeding heart made a liar out of me on a forum I frequent. I had stated that the bleeding heart I planted in the shade garden many years ago did not survive. All I can say is when they took out the swamp next door, it opened the area to more sunshine, and maybe that is what this little 6-7" plant needed to come out of dormancy.

I did enhance this picture (which I rarely do) by darkening it a bit since the sunshine washed out the colors.

The hot pink phlox always busts out before the ones above it because it gets more sun

The crabapple doesn't always put on a good show, but it is this year. The first pic is from my back porch and the second pic is from my front yard.

And as an aside - it is so irritating that I have to input pictures several times before they take. They either just show a picture symbol, tell me no pictures are selected (which is obviously not true when they are highlighted right there in the choose window), or don't bother showing at all. So I have to delete the code and try again. And if I try to do more than 2 at a time, forget it. Just the 2 crabapple pics took 3 tries - argh!

Comments

[Cop Car]

I particularly like your flowering almond, the bleeding heart (my Grandmother H had bleeding hearts by her front porch in her last house), and crabapple (I'm jealous that your blooms are so bountiful!)

Yeah, I'm getting pretty POd at Typepad for the problems uploading and displaying photos. Don't know what there problems are. (Gnashing my teeth.)

[Cop Car]

Your Uncle D was in town Fri & Sat and I had occasion to show him your previous posting about performance of your solar panels. He ended up scrolling up and down through many of your postings. He was impressed! He told me what a good writer you are. (I had to agree, yes? That's what a mom does, even when she is not prejudiced!)

[bogie]

lad you got to visit with Uncle D. This was a good year for the crab apple. Glad I got pictures when I did as a couple of days later, it was so windy there were blossom petals falling like snow (meanwhile, in the north country, they did get snow). And by "falling" I mean if it had been snow, it would have been a driving blizzard.

[Cop Car]

I understand about the wind. I waited too long to get photos of irises and they got laid out by the wind. One bunch of the orchid-colored irises were so beaten up by the wind that they looked like peony blossoms lying there.