Spring in my Garden

I know it's officially been summer for a couple of weeks now but I never found the time to share some photos from how my gardens were doing this spring. It was a very wet season but the plants seemed to like that.  

The hanging plant Alec bought me for Mother's day is continuing to bloom. I am loving this beautiful plant so much.  With all the rain we've been having I've only had to water it a handful of times all season. 

 

Though my plants are loving all the rain it has been a bit chillier than usual this year so many things bloomed late and slow like my rhododendrons. 
 

My azalea bushes were really lush despite having whole branches that bloomed at different times. 

 

I'm pretty sure this is called a pearl bush; it seems to like the spot we planted it in. 

 

I bought this plant at Lowe's and within a month the color of the blooming flowers completely changed. I'm not upset or anything but I have never had this happen before. I do have what is called an everblooming hydrangea called Endless Summer that blooms one color and while the flowers never die all summer long they change color and get progressively darker but these blooms die and the new ones grow back in a deeper shade. 

 

It took another week or so but my rhododendrons were exploding with blooms this year.  

I have two of these flowering bushes too and had never had one with so many flowers. 

My roses were slow to bloom but by the beginning of June I finally had lots of buds. 

My peony plants were newly planted last year so they didn't bloom then (they don't like to be transplanted). I had no idea what color we had bought but this bloom was beautiful. Sadly 2 of my 3 plants only had one bloom and the 3rd hasn't produced anything but I have hopes that next year will be even better. 

This one is a very pretty variety as well!

 

My honeysuckle has grown in so much it nearly swamps the giant rock behind it but the smell is just incredible. 

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