In the Garden

Our daughter and crew flew back west last night, arriving in Vancouver at 11.30.  Seven hours time change getting here, only one going home!  But in the meantime more plants are blooming in the garden, and more to come.  The theme in the back yard this week is bright yellow, in the front it's a new deep red.  Here's a snapshot.

These bright yellow Icelandic Poppies are native to most of the sub-polar and mountainous northern hemisphere, but ironically not to Iceland.  They're now bred in a ranger of bright colours.

There's a patch of Leopard's Bane as well.

The plant we know as Manitoulin Daisy (Latin Hymenoxis or now Tetraneuris acaulis) from our times on Manitoulin Island is widespread in the western prairies, but quite uncommon this far east in Ontario.  We have seen it on the flat limestone alvar at Misery Bay Provincial Nature Reserve on Manitoulin, a park I had a hand in establishing.  It is certainly thriving here in our garden.

I love close-ups of all these composite flowers.

Out front our deep red Fernleaf Peony is finally in bloom.  With very fine narrow leaves, it's the earliest of the peonies to bloom here.  theyèr pretty uncommon as garden plants, and very expensive if you try to buy one.

You may remember two 'mystery' plants I posted images of on May 1st and May 8th.  The first of those was this luxuriant white Bleeding Heart that's growing in full sun out front.  

The second was this relatively sparser pink Bleeding Heart growing in the shade out back.  Much more to come as the garden unfolds over the summer.  Mrs. F.G. still has at least 100 seedlings to plant, all now out in the garage èhardening offè.  There's a risk of frost tonight and tomorrow night so they won't get planted quite yet.