[gardening] Mid-May Flowers

Visited four plant sales last Saturday- and was even home before noon. Picked up several things:

Planted some of these into the part-shade bed (and moved a couple astilbe and a heuchera from a poor location to the better location). 

I got a variegated iris that smells soooooo sweet:

I've never seen anything like it before- I love the foliage. I hope it spreads well so I can share it with people in a few years.

Speaking of irises, some very dark purple ones were the first to pop open this year:

Love this color. 

Down in the new(ish) big flowerbed, some lighter purple irises just popped open yesterday:

I don't think any of these bloomed last year. Looks like there's going to be lots of blooms this year!

Here and there, and there and here, little primrose are blooming:

Pulmonaria/lungwort in the back shade bed:

I'm trying to do an hour or two of gardening on week days after work when the weather is nice. I went through the succulent bed and ripped out weeds. All the little chicks that were knocked loose I put into a container to give to a friend:

Found some bees at the bottom of the azalea bush sleeping on the job:

"Busy as a bee" my ass.