To make up for the totally lame Bloom Day post last month, I photographed everything in I could reach today. Some of the stuff blooming is in beds that can’t be walked into yet, because they’re under construction, being watered daily due to new plantings and/or not mulched..

In the backyard, bolting cilantro, which is probably not very interesting, but I think it’s lovely and lacy. It’s so pretty that when some of it sprouted up outside the bed, in the lawn area (and I use the word lawn here very loosely, because it’s really the weed patch), I left it and let it grow. I figure I can always dig it up and transplant it if it gets on my nerves.

In the front yard, both yellow knockout roses are blooming up a storm, and have buds all over them. What a good investment these turned out to be! They’re getting big and look great, even when they’re not blooming.

The rose bush I inherited from the previous owners that migrated from the shady hole where they’d planted it to the backyard trash hole to the front yard is now happy as a clam in its new home, and is producing big, fragrant blooms. It has a tiny bit of the black fungus happening on it right now, but that doesn’t seem to be slowing it down. Spraying will begin shortly.

Three of the yellow roses from the front yard bush have already been clipped, and are perfuming my kitchen. The scent is really quite lovely.

All three of my original four nerve daisy plants have started blooming like they mean it. There are two more that weren’t planted deeply enough before it got cold, and looked like they were dead over the winter. They’re producing a little bit of greenery now, and I’m watering them and babying them, so maybe they’ll get back on track. I love these pretty flowers, and want to plant a bunch more in the soon to be expanded yellow bed.

I think this is Nana coreopsis. I planted two last year, but one was sort of in a depression, and I think it got too much water. It died down to the ground before fall came, and it doesn’t look as though it’s coming back. This one is just going nuts, and will soon be moved either into the yellow bed, or into the lantana-colored one. I think I might need more of these, as well. They were sort of lame last year, but now that they’re established, I like them a lot.

Speaking of lantana, I bought a new one this week, and planted it in the same spot as last year’s, but raised up in a big blue ceramic pot. I’ll have to shoot the whole bed next month, when both this and the sweet potato vine should be growing in, and starting to do their trailing thing. Much as I don’t love planting annuals, I’ve given in and planted annual lantana and sweet potato vine because they’re just so damned pretty, and give plenty of bang for the buck.

On the other side of the red yucca from the lantana, I planted this lovely coral rose bush today. It’s filled with little, lacy blooms that are the same coral as the autumn sage.

All three of the coral autumn sage are blooming. These looked pretty feeble over the winter, and I was afraid they wouldn’t come back well. Once this first bloom is finished, I’ll clip them back to a nice shape, and they’ll be just fine.

The white autumn sage are still slow growers, but look much happier than they did last year. They’re in a bed that’s sort of sparse, and will probaby turn into an all white one, so I’m thinking of throwing in some daisies to balance out the guara behind them, which is coming back slowly, but not quite ready to bloom yet.

Right before it got cold last fall, I bought two pink knockout roses on sale, and threw them into the second raised bed. They were sort of sprawly, which I encouraged, and now they’re sort of acting like trailing roses. Both bushes are blooming like they mean it. I’ll be moving them and raising them up a bit to encourage the trailing of the canes over the side of the wood bed.

Below the second raised bed, I’m doing an all purple garden, with diantus, creeping phlox, lavender, two colors of purple autumn sage, some purple annual lantana, and oregano (not because it’s purple, but because it stays pretty and green year ’round). This bed was just planted at the end of last week, so it’s pretty muddy, and things are not really blooming a lot yet.

That’s it for this month!

This post was created for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day. On the 15th of every month, gardeners from around the world photograph whatever is blooming in their gardens, post the pics, and then add their link to the Bloom Day list. It’s a great way to see what’s in bloom right now all over the place. If you’re a gardener, join in!