What's Blooming Now, May, 2014

Welcome to Garden Blogger's Bloom Day, to see what is blooming in other gardens join hostess Carol at May Dreams Gardens.

Also sharing the love up-close today with I Heart Macro, congratulations to hostess Laura for one year of her meme!

Also linking with these and others below in the text-

 Macro Monday 2 hosted by Gemma Wiseman.

Catching Light hosted by NatureFootstep meme.

What's Blooming Now-  Columbines are having the most impact on the bloom in my yard now among the perennials and biennials, along with ubiquitous mounds of Forget-Me-Nots and ground cover Comfrey.  18 years ago I started double Columbines from seed, and they have multiplied and spread a lot.  They make me think of frilly dresses or petticoats.  Anemone nemorosa earlier bloomed here, and now geraniums are taking over, both help make weeding a minimal task.

I later started some single Biedermeier dwarves, which have not spread as much-

I'm trying to learn to do artistic things with flower photos, here are some beginner attempts, to see some good examples join Lorik at Mandarin Orange Monday.  Here is the face of a magenta/white Columbine-

Hue manipulated to change to orange, Filter Clothify in Gimp-

Hue manipulated to change to blue in Gimp-

Hue adjusted to blue, Cartoon filter, Super Nova light burst-

To enjoy more blue, see Blue Monday, hosted by Smiling Sally.

The other bloom machines are the Lilac, and the Rhrodendrons are starting to bloom-

Second bloomer-

Tree Peonies are also blooming,  Paeonia suffruticosa Kamatanishiki is 12 years old in my garden and bloomed for the first time last year, it was worth the wait-

                                                                                  
The bush is a little skimpy and had to be tied up-

Paeonia delavayi is the same age but started blooming not many years after planting-

It made the best shrub of all of the tree Peonies, when I was staking it up I even found a small one a meter out from the mother, with even a bud on top for a flower, Kamatanishiki behind-

A final surprise was that a regular rose started blooming, 2 weeks before the usual time, Zephirine Drouhin, my personal Queen of the roses.

 -Hannah

                                                                or cameras are macro

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