May Flowers

Wow, My butterfly bush has gotten huge! Ive been trying to keep the bottom pruned,

so that my asiatic lilies can get some sunshine. This dark purple butterfly bush

is known as Dark Knight.

These Asiatic lilies I bought in bulb form off the internet.

They have been wonderfully named, Lollypop!

I have been waiting for them to bloom. This is the first year they have bloomed.

I am sure they will be even more beautiful once they get some age on them. I also have Renoir Asiatic

Lily planted here, but the bunnies ate them. I guess Iwill have to wait another year

to see what they will look like.

Mums, thrown in the ground one halloween. I never really cared for mums,

but I didn't have the heart to kill them.  They have inturn, given me many blooms

and turn out to be easy and undamanding. I will not throw out

my mums ever again.

This is where my Pink Muhly grass (Muhlenbergia Capillaris) ended up.

It still looks dead, but it is not it just needs to bounce back.

                                                                Peppermint Stick Spirea bush.

                    

       This is my bottlebrush bush.

It came from Charleston, SC.  I lived there for a while.  It is my dad's permanent residence.

I love Charleston, such an inspirtional place for plants.  I brought many ideas and plants back

from there.  This is one of them.  The bees love this plant.  It is covered in bumble bees and honey bees during blooming season. I had to pine straw underneath it at night.

Gardenia was my first LOVE!  Although I had always heard it was hard to grow.

I disagree.  I do tend to buy larger, established plants when buying Gardenia.

I try to remember to throw my coffee grinds underneath it. 

(Coffee grounds, tea bags, wood ash, epsom salts for plants that love acidity)

My yard smells heavenly right now.  This particular kind is named August Beauty.

                                  Flopping over from so many blooms! Held up by the bench.
                                                Maybe I need to prune it back this year?

                                                                  Mophead Hydrangea.
                             The color of your hydrangea is based on the acidity or alkalinity of your soil.
                                        My soil is obviously acidic, therefore myhydrangea is blue.
                                              Adding aluminum to your soil will make it acidic.
                                            If you soil is alkalotic, your hydrangea will be pink.

This one here is undecided.

Liriope Grass to line the walkway.

 Daylily bed still not blooming.