101 Red Gate Lane

spring blooms, later May 2025

spring blooms, later May 2025

May 16:

Dodecatheon meadia, aka Primula meadia, aka Eastern shooting star.
Calycanthus floridus. Aphids on the flower!
We get these every year on our Calycanthus(es).
Spiraea vanhouttei (non-native)
Rhododendron calendulaceum (flame azalea)
Rhododendron maximus (Great rosebay) is coming!

May 18: Rhododendron maximum (front ones that get a bit more sun) are coming!

The oaks have leafed out!
Maianthemum racemosum (False Solomon’s seal)
Cornus sericea (Red twig dogwood)
Chrysogonum virginianum (Green-and-gold)
umm … sheep laurel?
moss! Common hairmoss (upright) and twisted moss.

May 21:

Lonicera sempervirens (Trumpet honeysuckle)
Indian azalea
Trillium luteum is now past its bloom time
Phlox divaricata
Rubus allegheniensis (Allegheny Blackberry)
Kalmia latifolia (Mountain laurel) is coming — it has a boom & bust cycle and this will be a boom year!

May 23 & 24th — we’ve had a lot of rain the past few days, so less opportunity to take photos.

Rhododendron roseum (a catawba cultivar)
Chrysogonum virginianum (Green-and-Gold)
Viburnum acerifolium (Maplewood Viburnum)
Osmunda regalis (Royal fern)

May 26-29:

omg we have peaches!
peaches & blueberries!
mountain laurel coming!
Oxalis corniculata (creeping woodsorrel) – in bloom!
Ilex verticillata (Winterberry)
Iris versicolor
Leucothoe fontanesiana (mountain doghobble)!
Rhododendron catawbiense (Catawba rosebay)

May 30:

Iris versicolor

Rhododendron periclymenoides

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