Early May is kind of the inbetween time in the garden. The tulips (as you saw yesterday) are still putting on a decent show, but most of the spring bulbs are done or going over.

My ABSOLUTE favourite daffodil, Poet’s Daffodil is a late bloomer, and it’s just started.

They are a small daffodil, with a very short trumpet. And as you can see, a very pretty little red ring around it.

There’s still a few Pipit daffodils going too.

It’s bloomed for several weeks, and has and amazing scent! It was definitely a great purchase – I highly recommend it!

But now is the time to look to the late spring/early summer bloomers.

The irises are just getting started and it’s looking like it’s going to be a bumper year for a few of them!

In the driveway garden, the Spanish Thrift is blooming.

There’s a white one too, and it’s not far behind.

The dwarf Columbine is REALLY showing off.

It’s a native too. And it will reseed all over the place. There are a few other Columbines set to bloom – I think I have six or seven of them throughout the gardens – they come in sooo many colours, it’s hard not to collect them all.

There’s not much going on in the catio at the moment but there is one little clump of Summer Snowflake blooming.

There was more last year, but no doubt Lemmy put and end to it somehow. He’s a rather destructive lad.

There is one bit of excitement in the catio. Remember I showed you the Bachelor Buttons that turned out to be Forget-me-nots?

Well, apparently it’s both! See that big bud in the middle – that’s a Bachelor Button! The leaves of both plants are so similar, I really can’t tell them apart!

I got all the clearance perennials moved from their temporary home in the veg beds. This one is Leopard’s Bane.

You may remember it from the townhouse. The one I brought didn’t make the move, so I was happy to see it again in the nursery. It’s not happily ensconced in the Woodland garden

Speaking of which – a few of my shade natives came back, much to might delight!

On the right we have Wild Geranium and the left is Woodland Poppy. I was not optimistic about them so it was nice they came back.

And my experiment with the Hostas under the Norway Maple has paid off, despite what the internet told me.

There are about six of them out there, but these are the two that are the furthest along. They still aren’t my favorite plant, but they do the job in a shady spot.

And though Norway Maple are supposed to hard to plant under – pretty much everything I put under them is coming back – the Heuchera, the Astilbe, and Bugloss.

And there’s so much more to look forward too. We are just minutes away from these…

Lupin, Allium and Lilacs!