Mid-May — a time for allium and hesperis.

Allium.

Allium.

At the Allium Café...

... you can talk about whatever you want.



It's allium season, so remember to use the Althouse Portal when you are shopping at Amazon.

At the Allium Café...

... you can talk all night.

At the Allium Café...

... you can go all in.

At the Allium Café...

... talk about what you like.

And remember the Althouse Portal to Amazon

Iris gets ready to overtake the allium...

... in Meade's garden.

At the Allium Café...

... you can talk about whatever you want.

(And please consider using The Althouse Amazon Portal.)

Peak allium!

To my eye, it's the height of the gardens of Meadhouse. There's much more to come, but what a show, these big purple globes!

Allium.

Budding.

At the Allium Café...

... you can talk about whatever you want.

After the rainstorm...

... Meade gathered up all the allium that had fallen over.

ADDED: The indoor view:

At the Allium Café...

... you can talk about whatever you want.

(And, please, if you've got any Amazon shopping you want to do, use The Althouse Portal.)

The new bee and reality.

The new bee...



... hasn't bumbled yet. The allium is...



... peaking, as the late May sun forces us to see the reality, which is that the Pennisetum that crashed like grass surf away from the allium and onto the sidewalk last summer did not survive the winter that dragged Madison out of Zone 5...



... and Meade uproots and upends the dead things and works the ground into a condition called "chocolate cake."

Pinkness.

Trillium:



Allium:



Tulips:



Tulips:




All seen today, on my late afternoon walk. The trillium and the allium grown within the realm of Meadhouse. The tulips graced a nearby landscape.

All those tags.

The other day, I was blogging about tags, and somebody asked what are all the tags. I considered adding a sidebar gadget that would show all the tags, but I saw that there were over 3,000 of them. For what its worth, I've copied and pasted the list of tags, which you can see after the jump.

The number in parens is the number of times I've used the tag. The list is in alphabetical order, with the top of the list being tags that were originally written with quotation marks. This is something the software no longer lets me do, so some of those tags reappear without quotation marks, and thus the numbers in parens for the tags with quotation marks are not accurate.

If you want to find the posts that have a particular tag, copy and paste the word(s) into the search box at the top left of this page, and when you find a post that has that tag, click on that tag. In other words, forgive me for not taking the time to make this list all hot links.

At the Allium Café...

... it's allium time again.

At the Garlic Harvest Café...

... let's be methodical about the differences.

(Enlarge photo.)

ADDED: This was a taste test with 12 varieties of allium ophioscorodon — hardneck garlic — all grown this year by Meade, from Wisconsin stock, planted last October.

The new wave of purple.

Just as the allium — seen here in the cast shadows — fade to green-brown, the irises pop.