April is always so full of promise but it is hard to be patient for things to really and truly start blooming. Thank goodness for the bulbs like daffodils and tulips, but it is in May that the shrubs and perennials suddenly burst out with flowers. Above is a lovely pale pink weigela that just started to bloom.
And the peonies..... We wait literally for weeks as the buds swell just a little bit more each day for those gorgeous flowers to burst into bloom.
And then there are the irises.
But it isn't just the garden flowers that are bursting into bloom. The wild Rosa nutkana are starting to bloom and in the woods is this lovely hawthorn tree. I'm not sure what variety it actually is. It isn't quite like the English hawthorn that has seeded itself all over the place and is also in bloom. It's more delicate and taller, but it also doesn't quite fit the description of native hawthorns that I've found. It may well be a cross with an English hawthorn. Whatever it is, it is so lovely in its woodland glade.
