Is it .... Memorial Day??

So, I have utterly failed at the goal of making this a regularly-maintained garden journal w/pictures, but I can at least post a few photos as of today, May 28, for Kevin to enjoy.

This is a shrub clematis, for which I paid a fortune but is really really lovely.

Young delphinium in back, with I-can't-recall-quite-what in the foreground.

These are some begonias that I bought at the grocery story the other day because I loved the complexity of the colors, not that this photo does a very good job of showing them.   They will get planted up in a container for the patio.

This is a small kalmia latifolia (mountain laurel) that I bought on impulse at Lael's Moon Garden nursery last fall, and it is doing better than I anticipated in its container on the patio.  At some point, to be sure, it will go into the actual garden.  At some point in the next few days, these buds will open, and I'll re-photograph them then.

Hanging planters...

I have GOT to start using my actual camera, not the one in the phone, because this is a fairly awful photo of the early blooming rose (Crocus Rose).  Will try again tomorrow with my Lumix.

I think of this as like one of those "Three Stages of Life" tryptiches...

Foxglove, with salvia and cranesbill Biokovo in the background.

The intensely, eye-poppingly crimson geums were not intended to be quite so *vivid*, but they do make a nice color explosion in what is otherwise a rather cool-toned garden.

Dianthus.  I love dianthus.

This is the northwest corner of the garden, which was just planted this spring, and still needs to grow into itself.

This eryngium, which is several years old now in the north bed, will be *spectacular* in a few weeks.

Overall view of the west bed.