May 2, 2020:
Volunteer white violets (Viola canadensis)

May 2, 2020:
Red Trillium/Butcher's blood (Trillium recurvatum) Melanthiaceae

May 5, 2021:
Clematis armandii Snowdrift.

I didn't think that a clematis bloomed so early in spring. I made the trellis out of a deceased juniper with hand-tied Japanese knots.

May 8, 2020:
Celandine (wood) poppies (Stylophorum diphyllum).

Wood poppies seed themselves but politely so.

May 8, 2021:
Woodland phlox (divaricata).

Sweet scented groundcover for shaded, moist areas. The darker one in back is Blue Moon Woodland Phlox

May 8, 2021:
Sweet woodruff (galium odoratum).

Lovely for part sun or full shade

May 9, 2020:
Hosta (white feather?)

Rather strange, and I refer to it as a ghost as it is colorless until midsummer.

May 10, 2020:
Wild white geranium (maculatum).

May 15, 2020:
Jack-in-the-pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum)

Native plant that surprises you where/when it appears in spring.

May 19, 2020:
Fern leaf peony (Paeonia tenuifolia)

May 20, 2020:
Phlox paniculata

May 24, 2020:
Newly (trans) planted trillium from Cousin Butch's forest near the Apple River

May 25, 2020:
Blue star or Amsonia (Amsonia tabernaemontana)

Makes a nice butterfly-friendly dear resistant hedge. Lovely golden fall color; one of my favorites.

May 26, 2020:
Tree peony (Paeonia suffruticosa), over 20 years old.

May 27, 2020:
Bleeding heart (dicentra alba)

May 28, 2020:
Old-Fashioned pink Bleeding Heart

May 8, 2021:
three weeks earlier
for bleeding heart

May 28, 2020:
Columbine "Canadensis"

Backdrop of Pink Poppet Weigela (Weigela florida 'Plangen')