Garden Bloggers Bloom Day: May 2014

It's all shades of purple with orange accents up in here for this month's GBBD (hosted by May Dreams Gardens), starting with the star of the front yard: artichoke (and, yes, they do feel like koosh balls).

Curb strip Candystripe cosmos, from seed thrown out last year

Globe mallow just keeps trucking along

Creeping germander hasn't crept very far, but the blooms remind me of lavender

Passionvine

Mexican petunia, filling in with no help from me, per usual

End of the larkspur among the iris foliage

Heartleaf skullcap

Trumpet vine just started blooming yesterday

Not pictured, but just started blooming: magnolia, crepe myrtle and coral bean.

Happy spring, gardeners!