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To every plant, there is a season, and I find that pretty much the same plants are blooming that were blooming last year and the year before at this time. So even though I’m intoxicated with my peonies and wowed by my poppies, I’ll use this post to showcase some of the other plants that are blooming.

Last year I grew two pansy seed mixes on trial from Renee’s Garden. These black pansies wintered over to bloom another year.

This is Sooty Sweet William. My sister grew it from seed. It is a deeper red than appears in this brightly lit photo, but isn’t black by any means.

A gift from a friend last year, this white bleeding heart is blooming in my garden for the first time.

This is the same bleeding heart pictured in my first post about freeze damage. Just as I had predicted then, a few blooms survived because it was protected.

This plant is easy to take for granted, growing almost anywhere with little care, so I just wanted to give a shout out to Geranium sanguineum var. striatum.

I received three Orange Perfection diascias from Proven Winners to trial, and they perfectly matched the passalong canna I had wintered over in my basement.

First blossom of the year for William Shakespeare 2000. I received this Zone 5 hardy rose as a trial plant from David Austin Roses, and buried it deeper than usual to help it through the winter

Yes, it really is that blue. Jay Bird Siberian iris is starting its fourth year in my garden, and has become a worthy escort to my peonies.

Plants That Should Be Here But Aren’t

No bearded irises this year. Their buds were all blasted by the untimely freeze, and some of the leaves were damaged as well.
No foxgloves, either. I had blooming size foxglove rosettes when the snow receded in March. They were gone by May. Why? I’m not sure. Could be too wet, could be too many surprise low temps, perhaps a combination of the two. I have seedling foxgloves that, if all goes well, will bloom next year. There’s always next year. I need that as a Latin motto.

Also Blooming Now

• feverfew
• catmint
• ‘Bev’ peony
• ‘Rozella’ peony
• ‘Aimee’s Petticoat’ peony
• other peonies
• a creeping sedum with yellow flowers
• miniature hosta ‘Crown Jewel’
• golden variegated thyme
• ‘Crater Lake Blue’ veronica
• Oriental poppies
• Telstar picotee dianthus
• yellow flowered ornamental onion
• Cynanchum ascyrifolium
• German catchfly (Lychnis viscaria ‘Plena’)
• perennial flax
• various columbines, including the native one in our field
• maiden pinks
• ‘Joan Elliot’ clustered bellflower
• garden heliotrope
• ‘Miller’s Crimson’ primrose
• Lady’s mantle
• native rose (probably Rosa virginiana, photo here)
• dames’ rocket
• ‘Black Stockings’ thalictrum
• ‘Concord Grape’ spiderwort
• Johnny-jump-ups
• mockorange shrub

Inspired by the words of Elizabeth Lawrence, “We can have flowers nearly every month of the year,” Carol of May Dreams Gardens started Garden Bloggers Bloom Day. On the 15th of every month, garden bloggers from all over the world publish what is currently blooming in their gardens, and leave a link in Mr. Linky and the comments of May Dreams Gardens.