Gratuitous Domestic Posting (TM) - Outdoor Division

A few new gardening pics this sultry Saturday evening:

As you can see, the hydrangia what I meant to say rhodi has burst forth. This is the only one I have, located on the northwest corner of the house. The previous owner told me that it was the only place in the yard he could get one to grow, but having seen several 'round about the neighborhood, I begin to be rayther suspicious and am thinking of trying them in a few other places.

Next are the iris:

I really need to stake these up before the next thunderstorm hits (possibly tonight). As much as I like them, I'm beginning to feel I ought to thin them out a bit and introduce some other colors. (I do have some peach colored ones as well, but they usually open a bit later.)

Finally, the columbine, as usual, lead the charge among what I think of as the true warmer weather flowers:

and at the other end of the garden....

There were a great many seedlings coming up earlier in the spring, but as folks around the Dee Cee area know, we had a sudden and unusually severe cold snap pretty late. I wonder whether it didn't do in the baby c's. It certainly confused many of the older, heartier plants.

Next up: the peonies are abso-positivo-lutely ready to explode. Stand by.

UPDATE: Re the misnomer above, "A fair question, and one that in recent weeks has been mooch on moy moynd." The reason I accidentally called the rhode a hydrangia is that this is the time of year when I start obsessing about the deer trying to get at my hedge of the latter out back.
Sorry 'bout that.