Little Kerpow opened today. First time seeing it. Nice bright little guy.

Fancy Sparkler opened too, this bloom is a bit miss shaped, but there will be more to come.

I have more open, but pretty frost damaged, so have to wait for later buds to open, and hope they are better, but with temps supposedly in the 20's on Fri night, who knows.

Tom ~ Do you usually get frost this late?

It's not unusual to get frost here through the middle of May.

This year is so odd. We have a chance of getting frost here again too.

I guess there's a polar vortex affecting the weather now.

tveguy3 said:I guess there's a polar vortex affecting the weather now.

Our forecast for Friday night is down to 26 or 28. That will surely damage blooms
if it gets down that low. I'm hoping they are wrong!

Tom, Leslie and Leon ~ So sorry about the weather! It's been crazy the past few years, getting weirder by the minute!

In February, we had spring, then snow in March...not just a dusting, either! Some of the irises balked at such anomalies!

I wish there was something we could do about that...but what?

frost forecast here tonight, more bad weather for the little guys. Alpine Lake which I got from Leon in bloom.

Great bunch of little beauties Tom! for sharing.

I hope the weather will not damage your blooms too much. They predict snow and hail here, which is bound to damage the few SDBs I have in bloom.

Thanks for the nice comments Lilli, I sure hope you don't get any hail, snow they can deal with, but hail can rip them up pretty bad. Been through that scenario before. It's 32 degrees now, might drop a bit before the sun rises. I have some irises that opened yesterday that were quite under sized, I'm guessing due to cold, others have short standards or miss shaped blooms. My cherry tree is blooming now, I hope I get some cherries, not so much for me, but the birds love them. I saw my first Baltimore Oriole for the year yesterday. I will have to go get some oranges to feed them.

Meticulous finally had a full sized bloom this morning. Nice little one that grows well here.


In full sun.

Lestv said:This year is so odd. We have a chance of getting frost here again too.

Same here, in southern Maryland

Meticulous is gorgeous in full sun! Nice.

Thanks, it's a cute one.

Its going to get cold here tonight but nothing like you Leon and Tom. Brrrrr...... I hope they get it wrong and it stays quite a bit warmer. Tomorrow will be in the low 60's for a high with a brisk wind. At least the sun will be shining.

It's supposed to get down to 28 here tonight, but that's in town, out here it's always 5 degrees colder. It never got out of the 40's today, with a strong North wind. Too cold to dig in the garden today, but I did mow part of the lawn with the hand mower, as the belt for the rider didn't come in yet.

Tom ~ That's just way too cold for May!

It is now 80° here! Later, next week, it is supposed to be in the 50s and raining.

A few more opened ahead of the freeze.
Pippi Longstocking is such a cute and reliable one.

Pumpin Iron, another good grower and performer from "Down Sout"