On the 15th of every month, May Dreams Gardens hosts Garden Bloggers Bloom Day—and here’s what’s blooming in my North Texas garden today for my Bloom Day post:
Stepping out the front door, there’s this very sad butterfly weed that’s been sitting on the porch for over a month. I bought it just before the poison ivy incident, and haven’t had time to plant it since I’ve recovered. Still, it continues to bloom. Good plant!
Same song, different verse. I bought these four nerve daisies in the same shopping trip, and here they sit, waiting for me to stop scratching, and start digging. Still they bloom.
All three Mexican petunias have a few blooms on them, and are filling out nicely.
My transplanted and divided coreopsis is still hanging in. This one has just a few blooms today. The other one is all buds. 
Yellow Knockout Roses. Three of them have taken, and are blooming here and there. The fourth is brown and dead. It just never greened up after I planted it. I’m plotting the transplant of the one on the far side of the front bed to replace it.
Ever faithful lantana is in full bloom, and growing huge. This was a one gallon plant two months ago.
A longer shot of lantana, sweet potato vine, and red yucca, which is also in bloom. The sweet potato vine has taken over the whole front corner of the raised bed, and is spilling down over the side. It was two six inch pots two months ago. I’ve started pinching off pieces and sticking them in the dirt, where they promptly root themselves and start spreading out.
Backing up a few more feet, lantana, red yucca, cherry sage, and gazanias. I have hundreds of gazania blooms, but since I shot early in the morning, they hadn’t opened their eyes yet.
Gallardia cannot bloom fast enough. It’s fat and happy, and constantly in flower. Once a month, I deadhead the heck out of it, and a week later, it’s covered again.
Now, moving to the backyard…
Bolt! My first cilantro plant has bolted, and is in flower.
Cucumbers are flowering, but for every dozen or so flowers, I might get one cuke. It’s not happy, it has some sort of wilting thing going on, and it got blown around and knocked off the trellis during last week’s storm.
Zucchini is blooming like crazy, but again, for every dozen or so flowers, I get one squash. They’ve just been really heavy on male flowers.
Tomato flowers are not very exciting on their own. However…
I have three romas, six Early Girls, and one cherry tomato, all loaded down with fruit just like this one—and this is just the bottom section of one plant!
Last but not least, the whole fenceline of honeysuckle is in bloom. It smells heavenly when you get close to it, or when there’s a breeze across it.
