More azaleas come into bloom as some of the older ones fade. We are fortunate to have several different varieties. The blooms on the right and buds below are on north side of our bedroom.

These azaleas are in the front yard under the trees.

More azaleas. While some early azaleas blooms have faded, some bushes were just beginning to blossom or have reached the most beautiful time. The bushes shown below are near our bedroom. The other two are in the front yard.

Another azalea. After most of the azaleas just outside bedroom had faded, we discovered another one with a little different color.

The blooms are amaryllis.

This knock out rose was the first to bloom this year. It now has several blooms.

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Some more roses.

Four different rose bushes are blooming in early May. Below: This is simpler rose bloom. Right: This rose is in the garden by the front door.

This reddish pink bloom is a vinca.

This begins a section of pictures of plants Danielle planted near her artificial "pond".

Left: This a spiderwort.

Another flower near her pond is this daisy.

The plants around the "pond" include several lantana.

Some of these dainty blooms lipstick sage have white and red parts. Others are all red but white part will appear eventually. They are also in a garden outside our front door.

Danielle has several lilies but the spider lily is the most unusual. It has several names: red spider lily, red magic lily, or equinox flower. The long projecting stamens are outside the bloom.

Danielle has several kinds of lilies. This one is a oriental lily.

Danielle has two colors of four o'clocks in the gardens just behind the house.

This is the first gladiolus too bloom. Of course it takes several days for the glad bloom to develop completely. These pictures were taken just one day apart.

This bloom is a zucchini. It is quite large (2-1/2 to 3 inches). The blossom is not only pretty but edible. However, it is a little hard to photograph because it is only open little while in the morning.

These are some gladiolus blossoms in our front garden.

This is a rose of Sharon on the left. What was unusual about this blossom was that it was the only one on this tree which normally blossoms a couple weeks after the blooms shown in the next slide. The picture below was taken a couple of weeks later after the tree was in full bloom.

We have a couple of rose of Sharon trees just outside our home in the back yard. The pink tree blossoms before the lavender one.

Humming birds and moths as well as bees love this plant. Danielle was told that it was a bee balm but my phone app Seek identified it as an anise hyssop. It is a kind of mint.

Danielle had to use her phone app to identify this plant. It is a larkspur, a close relative of delphiniums.

This plant has an unusual feature to its blooms. It is a cactus dahlia so named because of the "splines" on the ends of the petals.

This spring spider lily is another of Danielle's many lilies, It came in a box of a couple of unknown bulbs that she bought for $1.99 at the store. She had to use her phone app to identify it after it bloomed.

This is a Madagascar periwinkle also known as a vinca. This blossom appeared just a few minutes after Danielle sprinkled the plant and the picture was taken in the next hour.

This is the first bloom of a zinnia this year.

These gardenia blossoms are on a large bush in our back yard. We believe that a pair of cardinals make their home in the bush.

These wild dawn flower blossoms were first noticed at about 11 A.M. while cutting the grass near the back of our yard. At about 1 P.M,. I went out to take their picture and the blossoms were gone. So I checked again the next day and they were back and I got this picture. My phone app said they were "dawn flowers", which seems to be a very appropriate name. The blossoms are about an inch in diameter. These flowers were in a small patch and looked somewhat like a ground cover.

Google implies that the only dawn flowers are blue morning glories. Clearly there are more kinds. I was glad to have found them. Danielle says she saw them last year.

These are balloon flowers. They can also be blue/violet or reddish/pink.

Some more gladiolus are blossoming. The one on the right is in our tomato garden and appears in another picture of the tomato garden. The two below are in the bin with our raspberries that were planted just this year and are still quite small leaving lots of room for the glads.

Earlier there was a picture of a tomato blossom. We are getting a bumper crop from these plants.

In the middle of the tomatoes there is a gladiolus that Danielle planted in the tomato patch while the tomatoes plants were very small. There are some onions in the foreground.

In an earlier picture, it was pointed out that bees love anise hyssop. That was from past years experience because at that time we had not seen any bees since the hard freeze last April. We have finally seen some bees on these flowers.