Mary DeNoyer’s garden; as seen in a very different month of May

Mary experienced a lot of death and destruction from last winter's extremes, thus I was prepared to see holes—a garden knocked back—but unless you knew where to look (thanks to a conversation where Mary pointed out a few things gone bad) the garden hid all the bad and was nothing short of stunning.
I love allium. 
I can't deal with the dying foliage, but love the blooms. Mary does allium well.
I was surprised to see her Pseudopanax 'Sabre' looking so good, mine just has a couple of tiny leaves sprouting from the base...
Then I saw that she'd sunk a pot into the border. Well done!
I took nearly this same shot last year. The plant is Arabis ferdinandi-coburgii, last year the soil between the arabis and the lawn was a small moat. This year it's cracked and dry.
Another stunning allium. 

Passing into the back garden...
Cyrtomium fortunei
Calycanthus occidentalis 

Looking backwards...

Paris polyphylla 

There's Mary under the garage overhang which creates a lovely patio area.
How fabulous is that pot!? Mary picked it up from fellow gardener Gail Barnard.
Mary has moved around her many podophyllum since my last visit, some are still in containers, but others have been put in the ground.
I'm backtracking now, to capture images I missed when I went forward to say hello to the garden hostess. A yellow flowered trillium...
Disporum standing tall among the podophyllum.
Close-up of the disporum blooms.
A few more podophyllum shots...



I'm under the garage overhang now, looking backwards.
A different angle.

I love this container!

The raised planting area between the driveway and the back deck/patio.

And finally a couple shots of the border along the driveway.
Thank you for opening your garden again Mary! It was as inspiring as always.