Bloom month
Plants that bloom in May
1007 garden plants from the BloomsEye library that are typically in flower during May. Plan for reliable color in May and keep your borders from going quiet.
Showing 1 to 60 of 1,007 plants
How this list is made
Derived from each plant's bloom months, as stored in the BloomsEye library, which was written with AI assistance. Of these 1,007 plants, 731 have been checked against outside sources (51 fully verified); the rest have not been checked yet, and each plant's own page says which. The cards are AI-generated illustrations. Months here are Northern Hemisphere months; in the Southern Hemisphere, shift them by six months.
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The flowers of May
Every plant on this page is in flower in May. These are the ones with the shortest seasons around it, ranked by how much of each plant's flowering falls in April, May and June: a plant that opens and finishes here sits ahead of one that flowers from spring to frost, and ties go to the plants this site's guides name most often.
May bloom by flower color
A plant that comes in more than one color is counted under each. The picks rank the same way as the flowers above, so each color names the plants whose season sits closest to May.
Orange
113 plants
Purple
241 plants
May bloom for shade
295 of these 1,007 plants will flower in less than a full day of sun.
May bloom by height
Mature height, in the three bands a border is planted in. Anything over 10 ft is structure rather than a border plant, and a climber is sized by whatever it is growing up, so both sit this out.
Front of the border
under 12 in
133 plants
Back of the border
3 ft and up
299 plants
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