Garden at the start of May

A solitary perfect orange-centered daffodil, spotlit at night. Yellow flowers bursting all around the apple tree, with a trio of lavender phlox and a trio of deep purple grape hyacinth anchoring the rainbow. Red hints, in the buds on the azaleas and the apple tree, new leaves on the roses, and we know there will be white when the lilac opens in a week. The path we laid last year is surrounded by ground covers we can no longer name, sedums near the front steps and some small purple-hearted cover past where we ran out of stones. And everywhere more columbine.