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Native shooting star with native wild ginger.

Ajuga “Burgundy Glow” — this is a great one. Blooming beautifully now with this cool purple-blue, but the reddish leaves have been here for a month, and will last through ’til fall.

Pulmonaria and hosta. Lovely perennials doing their weed-blocking thing. 

Groundcover combo: deadnettle (I think maybe Purple Dragon?) and ajuga (maybe Chocolate Chip?). With a little Virginia waterleaf sneaking in at the top…

Hm. This tree peony confuses me, as it seems like it has two different kinds of buds — the round ones look more like herbaceous buds. Is that typical? It’s only two years in my garden.

Columbine are like hellebore — sometimes you have to tip the blooms up to really see how pretty they are. Most of mine are a random assortment, but I think this one, which is notably shorter than most, but also larger, might be “Big Blue.”

Wood hyacinths just starting to bloom.