Garden flowers in May

Just a few flowers in the garden this month.

Purple alliums - looking like exploding fireworks

The last flower this year on the Tree Peony

I don' know what this is - it appeared in the garden many years ago and comes up year after year.

Bleeding Heart (sorry blurry photo).  I need to move this as the tree peony is overshadowing it.
This also sometimes known as "Lady in the Bath" - a sure way to get very small children giggling is to take off a flower and turn it upside down whilst pulling gently on the sides to part them - et voila! A Lady sitting in her Bath!

I think this is called Avens - a wild Geum

 Also a white one.  These also suddenly appeared in the garden many years ago and pop up each spring.

Geranium macrorrhizum -

A beige iris - given to me by a neighbour several years go.

Rhododendrons just coming out

A pink geranium

Gold leaf form of Leycesteria

Pink Astrantia - just coming out

Thrift - I love these flowers - they used to be depicted on the back of threepenny pieces.

Saxifrage Southside seedling

Strawberry flowers - I have these in a pot this year.

 

Bowles Mauve still flowering

 Chives

Dark mauve clematis

I just spotted this Aquilegia growing by the back of the greenhouse. I had loads of them for many years, but have been slowly pulling them out as they were taking over.

The Euphorbia is still flowering and filling the air with scent every time I walk past.

Clematis "Nelly Moser"

 Another Geranium macrorrhizum - this one is unusual in that it has variegated leaves.  The flowers are slightly different in shape as well.

Cerinthe still flowering

Another Geranium - I think this one is called "Ballerina"

Salvia Hot Lips - this always starts off in the spring with just red flowers but later in the summer it will have both red and white flowers.

Geranium phaem - Mourning Widow

Another Geranium - noid

Wild strawberry flowers

Blue Iris -

the Pieris leaves are really colouring up now.