What's in Bloom?

After four years, Wisteria is having its best year covering half my pergola.


Doublefile Viburnum holds its lush branches out to offer these beautiful flowers.


Mertensia, Virginia Bluebells, peeps out from under the viburnum.


Here it is, the Chocolate Vine, Akebia quinata, that ate my fence. I had no idea this would happen. I'm still charmed by its delicate leaves and even more subtle flowers, but that could change if it starts to strangle my shrubs.


Here's a Chocolate Vine flower.


I thought my Kerria had died, so I moved it to a sunnier spot and voila!


I love the tiny ballet slippers of Solomon's Seal. Also, the plant reminds me of the old gardener, now passed, from whom I bought my first clump.


Soapwort. The sections that have seeded in my patio are even nicer than the main plant.


An early flowering White Clemaits climbing an old plum tree.