Blooming now:

Bleeding hearts (d. spectabilis fading & exima going strong)
Hoop Petticoat Daffs - still have a few left?
Brunnera - still looking good but, probably, last week
Columbine - just opening
Pansies, Johnny-Jump-Ups, Violets, Violas of various kinds
Hosta 'Blue Mouse Ears' - just opening first of 3 scapes
Daphne - this will be the last week
Viburnum doublefile 'Shasta' - in full bloom & looking regal!
Huechera - 'Fire Fly' (I cut the flowers off all of the others)
Azalea Exbury hybrid 'White Swan' (Really pretty azales, IMO)
Tall Bearded Iris - I've got about 40 different ones & 'Honk Tonk Blues' just opened the first flower this morning.
'Miss Kim' lilac (lousy bloom this year)
Cornus (yellow twig)
Weigelia 'Wine & Roses' (full bloom)
Geranium cantabrigiense ÂKarminaÂ
Omphalodes cappadocica ÂParisian SkiesÂ
Aguja
Aquilega ÂDragonflyÂ
Phlox subulata still going
Azalea poukhanense (Korean Azalea) Just finishing
Geranium phaeum ÂSamoborÂ
Mazus reptans
Pulmonaria saccharata ÂMrs. Moom (almost finished)
Rhododendron ÂGoldflimmerÂ
Unnamed rhoddies

Can't think of anything else...probably a few others.

Tricia

Bleeding hearts - spectabilis and eximia
Columbines (Aquilegia canadensis)
Epimediums
Spanish bluebells
Narcissus slowing down - Hawera, Fragrant Rose, Fellindre, Geranium (Narcissus)
Geranium Macrorhizzum
Rugosa roses beginning (Yankee Lady and Blanc Double de Coubert)
Wisteria pseudo-standard
Leucothoe
Rhododendron Percy Wiseman
Hino-Crimson azaleas
Polemonium repans Stairway to Heaven
Allium Ivory Queen starting
Bearded irises
Siberian irises beginning
Ajuga
unknown lilac
several peonies almost open
assorted white and yellow wild strawberry/barrenwort wildflowers
dandelions
cotoneasters starting
berberis (Gold Edge)

Claire

Belle Isis used to post the thread, but hasn't been around here lately.

Claire

Every day seems to change the look of the garden this time of year....

Still blooming:
Bleeding hearts
Daphne Carol Mac
Lots of lily of the valley
Vinca
Forget-me-nots
buttercups
Quince

Just coming in:
Lots of bearded iris
Siberian iris
Columbine
Dianthus
Azaleas
Rododendrons
Chives
Veronica
Climbing hydrangea

Starting flower buds:
Peonies
Oriental poppies

Starting to fruit:
strawberries
blueberries
raspberries

Eating:
Asparagus
lettuce
mint (in sun tea daily and minced with greek style chicken kabobs for memorial day barbeque)

Enjoy the sun today...I have the day off and Im going outside to dig a few holes

Clare, Hehe, dandelions.

Patty

I will speak to one of arbo__retum's pet peeves by stating that this thread is a perfect example of why folks should have their zone and state/region listed with their name. A list of plants in bloom but not knowing where, is pointless information. If anyone would like help in adding their zone and state/region to their name I would be happy to post directions. kt

I miss Belle Isis too. And, I agree, it IS much better to have zones and states, I hope everyone will add them if they don't have them already.

What a riot of color - nothing beats this season, and that's a fact.

The most exciting things in my garden right now are the tree peonies, which are just opening, and the Camassia, which I've never had before. Oh, and the massive unfurling buds of Angelica archangelica.

My other favorite this season is a long line of small nepeta, which blooms much earlier than 6 Hills Giant. Between those 2 and my new Walkers Low, I'm hoping to have a good long season of catmint flowers. Love is not a strong enough word for how I feel about this plant.

I'm going to have to google Omphalodes. Great name!

Here's a link to Omphalodes. I had 'Starry Eyes' when we lived in NH but couldn't locate it in the States after we moved to CT in '03. (I'd gotten 'Starry Eyes' from WFF's fall catalogue but they no longer carry it.)

Anyway, a couple years ago, I found 'Parisian Skies' at Diggin Dog Nursery.

Omphalodes is a great ground cover plant for a shady & DRY area but performs even better with more moisture. They look just like forget-me-knots. The plant runs so it's not something you want to put in a tight spot. I use it to intervweave through my ostrich ferns...covers their bare lower-stems & adds a nice touch of color all during May.

Tricia

Here is a link that might be useful: Omphalodes 'Parisian Skies'

I forgot to mention

leucojeum
lily of the valley
blueberries
Candadian mayflower (Maianthemum canadense)

and one herbaceous peony bud opened after lunch today.

Claire

kt,I'm guilty --I was writing to say, yes, post directions about adding zones, but I see an entry box to add it. So I did. We'll see if it comes up in my published post. New old house in nw CT so it's my first spring there and I'm just seeing what comes up. PO was a gardener -- she loved blue flowers, but I want to add omphalodes -- sweet. Her forget me nots are pink -- also sweet Blooming for me:
pink forget me nots
perennial geranium Name ?
bluett
columbine
lamium
the last of the tulips
no buds yeton the poppies, but tiny fistlike ones on the peonies
dame's rocket
purple iris (just bloomed)
lily of valley (but just about over with this heat)
wisteria

Welcome silvergirl. How exciting to watch and wait and see what pops up.

My garden is mostly about to burst. Here's what's already blooming:

Clematis H.F. Young (fading and falling in the rain - - it was prolific this year)
Lupines
fernleaf bleeding heart
lady's mantle
knockout roses (just started popping)
wooly thyme
hens & chicks (one sprouted a pink flower, prompting DS to disown it)
azalea
lonicera sempervirens 'manifich'
columbine
huechera (forgot the variety - - purple & silver)
creeping phlox (pink)
dianthus

about to burst:
Peonies
styrax japonicus
more lupines
more knockout roses
clematis 'Durandii'

I'm going to the Cape this weekend and my dad is staying at the house. I hope it rains so I don't have to count on him to water, but I hope it doesn't rain hard enough to ruin the peony blossoms that are bound to pop while I'm gone.

Thanks for the link, triciae. I need a good groundcover for a shady area I just cleared out. I was thinking of sweet woodruff, which I have lots of, but this looks nice too. I assume it's not an ephemeral - I need something that can compete (with lots of help from me for the first 10 years or so) with garlic mustard which takes over any bare ground. Oops, I guess I'm WAY off topic.

I always have weeds of one kind or another in bloom; this week the buttercups are rampant.

Flowers in bloom: Rhodies, azalea & iris finally coming into their own, columbines are beautiful, arabis is going by. Some of my wintersown annuals: alyssum, linaria, gilia capitata, and schizanthus are in bloom. This week's star plants - and I'm sorry I haven't had time to do pictures lately - are the Flore Pleno poppies. To me, they are a perfect shade of orange - not pastel, but not super-hot either. But I didn't have any luck with one in a bud vase though - is there any way to get poppies to be good cut flowers? Mine lost all its petals nearly instantly.

Lots and lots "on deck" - everything is budding now.