Some of the Front Garden flowers in May

This is a perennial bachelors button flowers. They are rather floppy plants but I like the show of blue with the last of the pink tulips. They are easy care plants.
The peony tree by the front entry is in full bloom at the moment. It is a light pink with huge blossoms and is about 4 feet high. This particular bloom has faded to white and is almost finished.
The thyme in its circle in in bloom. You can see the gold of the "Vancouver Jade" - a tiny well behaved low growing broom plant that is indigenous to our area. You can see that I have not finished cleaning up the thyme circle yet this spring.
This is the view across the corner of the thyme circle, past the alliums and columbines to the tiny sundial circle. This bed has been difficult to get things started growing in and still needs more nourishment.
This is shooting through the red/purple smoke bush leaves to its under planting of silver sedum. It is in the same bed as the alliums. It is in the inner garden at the front. This bed needs some renovation and removal of plants that are no longer decorative, but look rather messy. I think the smoke bush, the silver sedum, the alliums, and the armerias might make this bed much more attractive.
My best penstemone. Evergreen and every year at this time it is covered with these lovely purple flowers. It has spread into a patch with a diameter of roughly 3 feet. It falls over the tiny rock wall. I planted it a bit above the basic clay soil when I made this flower bed in 1997. So, it has been a good carefree plant for over 10 years. A mountain avens is beside it in the bed and is also evergreen and an excellent spreading little plant. This one has finished its blooming and has fluffy seed heads which are part of its beauty and stay on into the summer. Both of these plants have spread onto the little flat field rock area. The seem to like this hard clay area. I have been removing some of the flat stones from under them for use in other parts of the garden. I must give them some compost, too. They are excellent plants.
The alliums are putting on their show. The blue green penstemone behind them needs to be moved or taken out. I want the silver sedum to spread under all these plants to make a flat silver carpet in this bed. The alliums go to seed and there are many tiny plants sprouting.
These photos are not taken in the optimium lighting conditions. I should have wated about half hour more to get the light, just as the sun went down.