Blog Giveaway Update

I have received a few emails from people who have been unable to post a comment to enter the giveaway. I have checked the settings and I see no reason why this should be happening but alas, it is. If you have difficulty posting a comment, you can send me an email at susan at susangaylord.com instead. The deadline is extended through midnight on Friday June 6.

Blog Giveaway-Flower a Day for May Miniature Book

Enter a comment before midnight Thursday June 5 and be entered into a giveaway for a copy of Flower a Day for May. Please make sure you include your email (you can write it out: susan at susangaylord.com). If you don't include your email, I will have no way of getting in touch with you and you won't get the book even if I pick your number. This is the voice of experience speaking.

Flower a Day for May Miniature Book

While I love the immediacy of the blog, I wanted to give a tangible form to the Flower a Day for May posts. The Flower a Day for May Miniature Book is a limited edition of 50. Each book, 2 3/8" high and 3" wide, is signed and numbered and comes wrapped in a paper with a list of all the flowers and a resealable sticker. The price is $20. which includes postage worldwide. It can be purchased in my etsy shop.

Purchase the Flower a Day for May Miniature Book

Flower a Day for May

Flower a Day for May draws to a close with this photo of an alium, once again from Olana in Hudson, NY. I'm still waiting for the ones in our garden to bloom.

Flower a Day for May-Eastern Red Columbine

Another flower from Frederick Church's estate Olana in Hudson, NY—this one growing wild in a wooded area.

Flower a Day for May-Horse Chestnut

Coming on Sunday in my etsy shop-limited edition miniature book (2 3/8" x 3") of the 31 blog entries of Flower a Day for May.

Flower a Day for May-Wisteria

Flower a Day for May-Sweet Woodruff

Flower a Day for May-Lily of the Valley

Flower a Day for May-Daphne

Flower a Day for May-Dogwood

Flower a Day for May-May Apple

May Apple is an old-fashioned plant and one of my favorites. The leaves come in April, pushing through the earth in a rather suggestive manner.

They grow into leafy umbrellas

with the flowers are hidden below.

I like flowers that keep me on my toes. If I don't seek them out, they come and go without me.

Flower a Day for May-Perennial Bachelor Button

also from Olana, the estate of Frederick Church, the Hudson School painter.

And a photo from my friend Cathy's garden transformed with a line from poem 650 by Emily Dickinson

The Wondrous Nearer Drew: Artwork Inspired by the Poetry of Emily Dickinson and the Flowers of Massachusetts

Flower a Day for May-Iris

At Olana in Hudson, New York

Flower a Day for May-Chives

And with Emily:

Line from poem 338

Flower a Day for May-Pulmonaria

A garden club plant sale purchase last weekend. I love the spotted leaves as much as the delicate blue and pink flowers.

Flower a Day for May-Azalea

a closer view of what I see when I am in the kitchen

Flower a Day for May-Lilac

An excerpt from Lilacs by Amy Lowell:

May is lilac here in New England,
May is a thrush singing “Sun up!” on a tip-top ash tree,
May is white clouds behind pine-trees
Puffed out and marching upon a blue sky.
May is a green as no other,
May is much sun through small leaves,
May is soft earth,
And apple-blossoms,
And windows open to a South Wind.
May is full light wind of lilac
From Canada to Narragansett Bay.

You can read the entire poem at the Poetry Foundation website.

Flower a Day for May-Miniature Iris

is blooming right now. Thank you Kathy. They were in your May basket a few years ago.

Flower a Day for May-on Middle Street