Mid May is time for the property to slowly transition from Early Spring Color then soften to White flowers as the ferocious weeds get ready to overtake.

  May 15, 2024 - a rainy day! 60 degrees. 93% humidity SE winds 8 mph. When we reach mid May, all the early Spring colors are fading or have already faded. Daffodils and tulips are gone. Yellow Forsythias are gone. So are the apricot colored flowering Quince.

Now in the wild hedgerow the Spirea is in full blossom but sadly entwined in invasive Japanese honeysuckle. What an impossible job pulling it out.

Beach plum is in full flower. I've envied the sand dunes along Long Island for having these lovely plants for years, and feeling like a trespasser going there in August to spy on their fruit development and hoping to pinch a few fruits. Now I have my very own that I got from the NYSDEC's Saratoga Nursery.

And Lily of the Valley - a quiet little ground cover that comes and goes quickly but leaves their intoxicating fragrance in your mind, forever.

The white Dogwood lights up the entire north property and speaks of my Father's gardening skills as he grew this from a graft taken on N Broadway at his friend Amy Keller's house. She was his art student.

And everywhere you look are tiny clumps of white Star of Bethlehem determined to divide and conquer the garden beds and seek haven in every nook and cranny.

                       

And let's not forget White Columbine, sure to return every Spring in mid May with glorious bright white nodding flowers.

I've always loved having a white garden because I feel a white flower has much more fragrance than any other. And with sunsets at 8:05 PM tonight, the white flowers just light up every path they find a home to call their own.