Clockwise from upper left: Jacob’s Ladder (Polemonium caeruleum), Bleeding Heart (Lamprocapnos spectabilis), Japanese Painted Fern (Athyrium niponicum), Maidenhair Fern (Adiantum pedatum), Lily-of-the-Valley (Convallaria majalis), Lilac (Syringa vulgaris)
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Eliza Waters 
Don’t ya just love spring?! Beautiful images, Eliza.
Thank you very much. May is my favorite month of the year. 🙂
Such a joy to see the flowers. Here in northern AB it will be a little while, but I know they’re coming. I love your photos. Your garden must be so beautiful!
Thank you, Carol. It is hard for us northerners to see our southern friends’ gardens blooming while we wait for ours. Soon, soon!
It can be but on a positive note, lots of flowering plants are available at most big box stores so I can still have flowers, thanks to our Southern neighbors. 🙂
Aww, lilacs! My favorite and I miss them so much ! Planted two this spring that are suitable for the south; fingers crossed!
Hope they grow well for you and flower abundantly! Love that fragrance, I can never get enough. 🙂
Your lilacs are lovely, and I hope you love their scent. MIne bloomed and smelled wonderful on Monday and Tuesday. Wednesday and Thursday, we got 2″ of rain, coming down in torrents at times, with wind accompanying it. Today I have a few shreds left. I’m glad I got to enjoy them for a few minutes. We did need the rain, and now are looking forward to irises.
The season is always too short, isn’t it? We went from 60s to 80s seemingly overnight, and mine are fading fast. We could use a bit of rain as well, everything is so dry.
Wonderful! Thank you for sharing these great insights. Have a beautiful weekend! Michael
Thank you, Michael.
Thank you too, Eliza! Have a beautiful weekend! Michael
Lovely
Thank you, Sarah!
Gorgeous, Eliza! The bleeding heart and the ferns really caused me to linger. 💚
Thank you! I LOVE this time of year, with so many delightful flowers coming into bloom.
Paradise! 🙂
Indeed! 🙂
The beauty and the scents of all that loveliness.
Thanks, Alice. I wish it wasn’t so hot, the heat is accelerating their end. 😦 I have several vases of lily-of-the-valley and lilac, just so I can enjoy their scent while inside.
More lovelies, Eliza. Bleeding Hearts give off such a nice perfume. We put in one plant years ago and they have become a jungle. A pleasant smelling jungle. 🙂
Funny, I’ve never thought to smell one! I have white and pink and they self-sow like crazy, but they are so pretty, I don’t mind.
Hoo boy. I mentioned the wrong name. I meant lily of the valley. I don’t think bleeding hearts have a perfume. My bad. 🙂
Ha! Now that sounds right. 🙂
I recognized the lily-of-the-valley, lilacs, and bleeding hearts. The maidenhair fern intrigued me. Our maidenhair fern (Adiantum capillus-veneris) looks rather different, but both are pleasing.
Both are very pretty indeed, I love those delicate fronds, so beautiful to have in the garden.
All lovely. 😊
Thank you, Irene. x
Beautiful, Nice presentation
Thank you, Greg.
Nothing beats fresh Spring blossom to enrich our day with colour and fragrance.
Oh, indeed. I am in heaven every day in May!
My mother used to grow lily-of-the-valley in the shade behind our house when I was a kid.
I love the scent better than any other!
I’m still fond of it, too, after all these decades.
Each and every image is a joy to behold, Eliza!
Thank you so much, Kris!
Spring, spring, spring! The other day, I planted Jacob’s ladder. Can’t wait until it looks like yours.
JL is a great plant, it has never faded in popularity like some others have. I was looking at my white bearded iris tonight and wondered how yours were doing? I moved them to a sunnier, drier spot and they seem much happier.
Alas, the iris did not make it. Sigh. I have a tough yard, and it’s not every plant that survives here, no matter how much I coddle them.
Ah, well, it just makes way for something more suitable. 🙂
Yup, and that list is pretty small. I have finally accepted this reality. Lots of repeats in the garden, which is actually pleasing to the eye.
It truly is– you’ve happened upon a great design secret!
Delightful❣️My bleeding hearts haven’t done so well this year, but the corydalis is thriving!
Thank you, Val. My BH used to be better as well, I think they don’t like the hot, dry conditions we’ve been having of late. The shade ones do better than the full sun ones.
Just gorgeous!
Thank you, Sandy!
You bet!
May is the best month here (Vancouver Island) too. I didn’t realize bleeding-heart’s Latin name had changed; I still think of it as Dicentra. You’re always on top of these things!
Thank you, Audrey. Yes, and what a change, right? How did they think that mouthful was better than Dicentra?? 😉
Those taxonomists! 😕 😉
Beautiful flowers all – and you have chosen a lovely way of showing them off 🙂
Thank you, Anne!
Hi Eliza. I used to be a landscape garden designer in a previous life, before I became a writer ( less backache), and some of your plants were regulars in my designs. Brings back happy memories.
MJ
Thank you, MJ. Another thing we have in common. 🙂 I hear you about the backache. I’m getting too old to do this line of work!
These pictures bring a lot of joy on this sunday morning.
Thank you, glad they did!
A wonderful collection, Eliza!
Thank you, Anita. May flowers are so welcome after a long winter. 🙂
They seem even more special this year…
Lovely May flowers Eliza and dreamy ferns.
Thank you, Liz!
Delights, indeed
Thank you, Derrick
Gorgeous! A reminder too that I should try and grow some lily of the valley here. My garden seems extremely slow this year and your lilacs have flowered before ours! Have a great Sunday!
Thank you, Cathy! The past week the temps have been so summer-like, jumping from 15-30C seemingly overnight. It accelerated everything. One of the first things I planted here when we moved in over 30 years ago was LOTV. My goal was to have enough to make a big bouquet… I’d say I’ve more than achieved that goal! 😉
So pretty! I love the bright, warm colors of springtime. Lilacs remind me of my grandmother’s arbor and lily of the valley brings back memories of my mother.
Thank you, Barbara. Some scents of childhood seem to be indelible– in this case, thankfully!
The spring of my childhood. I can remember the scents.
Sweet memories, for sure.
Beautiful flowers Eliza, so lovely to have this gorgeous combination of scents too 🌺
Thank you, Xenia. I love lilacs, lily of the valley and peonies for their scent, all happy-inducing!
So beautiful, Eliza. They epitomize Spring!
Thank you, Diana. Spring flowers can’t be beat!
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Thank you, Susan!
Such beauties! Thank you for sharing them with us!
Thank you, Debbie!
So beautiful! 🙂
It’s a beautiful spring in your neighborhood. 🙂 I love them all.
Thank you, Judy!
Lovely flowers and photos for one of my favorite months.🙂
Thank you, Susan. Such a lovely time of year, makes those memories of winter fade right away.
Wow, beautiful photos and beautiful blooms!! ❤️ ~ Diana
Thank you, Diana!
Beautiful photos Eliza. May over here has been cold and wet so everything is behind schedule.
Thank you, Denzil. June will hopefully be better for you.
Thursday is apparently the beginning of Spring here, eventually.
All such beautiful blooms, none could I ever grow. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you, Tina. Glad to share our different climates. 🙂
Beautiful compositions, Eliza, and I love all the colors!!
Thank you, Donna!
Truly delightful!
Thank you, Belinda!
Great photos. How big is your garden?!
Which one? Ha! 😉 The house/yard is on 2 open acres on a 7+acre wooded parcel. Currently, I tend 6 gardens (down from 9 at one time), the largest one measures roughly 30′ x 60′ and holds both perennials and my annual cutting garden. You can see a photo of it here: https://elizawaters.com/2020/08/04/august-garden/
Thanks much, Vinny!
Wow that’s amazing! Those colours are just amazing! Where in the world are you?
New England, US
Ah right. I’ve read a few Stephen King books and they seem to be set around there.
Yes, he lives in Maine, and winters in Florida.
Each of these is really lovely. It must be such a special time of the year.
Thank you, Carol. May sees plants go from brown stick dormancy to a full flush of green ground to canopy. An amazing unfoldment in such a short amount of time. An annual miracle I never tire of seeing.
New England fragile beauty. ❤️❤️❤️
Thank you, Bela. May in New England is so fine!
Where you are, no doubt. Where we were in the woods, it was heavy black fly season. 🤪
Yeah, we have a few of those, too. But luckily, they hold off until later in the day before they get intolerable. Maine is another story!
Oh, I thought you *were* in Maine?
Nope, Mass. 😉
Ooooohhhh. That makes sense. We were about a month behind you folks for blooms and trees unfurling their leaves in eastern ME. And for sure we had more biting flies. But I will always have a place in my heart for northern New England. 💞
May is your month! Loveliest collection ever.
Thank you, Susie. Best month of the year!
Lovely May treats. Painted ferns are so beautiful.
Thank you, Allison. I find it hard to resist buying an attractive Painted fern, esp. the burgundy ones. I have two that are particularly stunning right now and a few newbies that need to bulk up.
Your heart must be singing with joy at the sight of the flowers. I love the ferns and Dicentra and wish the Lilacs could broadcast scent over the Internet…Happy Spring.
Thank you, Amy. My heart is indeed quite happy this time of year!
Beautiful, Eliza! I don’t know how you would bear to be parted from your garden at this time to come and see English bluebells. Your flowers are opening at much the same time as ours.
Thank you, Susan! I know, it would be tough to miss the show here, but I would be amply compensated on the other side of the pond. 🙂
Oh, I love those bleeding hearts. My grandmother loved them and used to get so excited when seeing them.
Enjoyed seeing your images of your beautiful flowers Eliza!
Thank you, Reed!
Beautiful Flowers. Thank You for sharing with us ❤ ❤ ❤
Thank you very much, my pleasure!