Thank you for all of the birthday wishes! Just a quick blooming post today. As a gift for myself for turning 50, we are taking a weekend trip to Longwood Gardens so that I can soak up all things flowers 😀  I’m so excited and the weather is supposed to be nice!  Yippeee! First vacation is many, many months.

Anyway, on the home front there are some new things:

Calycanthus bush

It has lots of buds on it.

We need to make/buy a snow protector for this bush as it is in the drop line for snow slides off our roof, which broke a chunk off it over the winter.

This is the Purple Sensation allium after it goes to seed.

I love how these look and leave them up until they dry up and fall apart. I haven’t gotten any baby allium that I know of from the seeds.

Here is my very favorite allium – Star of Persia:

I have them all over.

They are still filling out and will be even bigger once they are done.

Last of the Boysenberry Buttercup iris:

One more iris to open up out back still. Late bloomer 😀

On a side note, Woodrow is still coming around a lot:

His leg seems better, although I suppose it could be a different woodpecker.

Potted heliotrope:

One of my new favorite annuals. It smells divine!

My peonies are still going strong:

One of the bushes only has one bloom on the whole plant, which is weird. It could be from road salt as it does get some from the plows in the winter. Who knows?

My Zepherine Drouhin rose:

It is a climbing rose, but a lot of the canes die back in the winter here, so it is pretty short. I have two and one is much bigger than the other, likely due to the sun. I may move these this fall, but I’ll wait and see how much they grow this season.

Looking good for June!

Still have that blue/purple theme going right now.

Have a great weekend!