Tis a dismal May so far. Has allowed some flowers to 'hang in there' longer than normal with the lower temps and grey skies.
A few things to add today (another drizzly day).
First and only Median Iris (is that what the medium short iris are called?) Got this one in a trade for a daylily. Reminds me of the taller later Stepping Out Iris. Very welcome in the little garden at the foot of the side steps.
The Centaurea montana which self seeds all over here - and very welcome except when they self seed in the middle of a daylily! Here is one at the corner of my tomato patch (not yet planted). I cut these down 3 times during the season and they come back and flower each time!
The the dwarf/mini iris. The yellow is a seedling and the purple, my favorite, is Grapesicle. With lamium Beacon Silver, which also seems to have self seeded this year. Perennial Border.
Celandine Poppy, a wildflower brought over in colonial times for medicinal purposes, and lunaria - also ostrich fern and gooseberry seen along the fence with old window pane
And by now, you must have noticed that I am into 'texture'! Here is a Snow White mullein - this year it will send up it's flower stalk, and Artemesia 'Power's Castle'. I love grey in the purple, plum, lavender garden!
