May Bursts Forth in a Crescendo of Life

Kansas Country Garden

May 2015

Poppies and iris are a May delight.

There is nothing dull or boring with the month of May. Instead it bursts forth in a crescendo of life. 

A Kansas Country Garden: Meanings and Memories

Poppies will forever remind me of Lydia, my mother's friend who gave me my first plants.

Some flowers come to us laden with emotion and meaning. There is more to a flower than just what you see. Very often memories of the giver of the original plant mingle with the blooms. The Victorians assigned meanings to all flowers making it possible to send a potent message with a bouquet. Of course some flowers had multiple meanings which could lead to some confusion. Beware of the yellow rose!

A Kansas Country Garden: Mid-May

Poppies bring a brilliant and brief bloom.

Beginnings. Endings. Spring brings them both. A flower blooms and then fades.

A Kansas Country Garden: Early May

Lilac bloom was sparse, but still lovely. And I love our Kansas skies!

A new planting of miniature iris bloom by the fence.

There's nothing like the scent of the lilac.

Balmy May days are some the of the best of the year. Lovely May flowers are a treasure, too.

A Kansas Country Garden: Meet Cinco and Mayo

Cinco and Mayo are welcome additions. 

Yellow miniature iris are the first iris to bloom.

First of all, I'd like to introduce Cinco and Mayo our long awaited baby goats born of course on Sunday, May 5. Cinco is a little boy who looks like his daddy while Mayo is a little girl who looks like her mama. New life is just plain amazing whether we're talking about plants and flowers in the garden or animals in the barnyard.