Many flowers are blooming in my yard right now, but it still hasn’t reached its peak. Here’s what I can remember is now blooming. I hope I haven’t forgotten too many:

• Lavenders just started last week
• Golden coreopsis has been going for a few weeks
• Indian Blanket Flower started in the past week or so
• Campanula glomerata is beginning to open its purple flowers
• Salvia ‘East Friesland’ has been blooming well for several weeks, maybe a month
• Foxgloves have been going well for at least two weeks
• Pink Simplicity roses are starting to bloom, but I have trouble with that hedge not blooming well
• Yellow Simplicity roses have been blooming quite well for over a week
• Shasta daisies are just now opening a few flowers, but the real bloom season is on the way
• California poppies have been the best performers so far, blooming for most of the past month. The orange ones that reseed each year are doing great. My new pink ‘Summer Sorbet’ ones are still small and growing, with no flowers yet.
• Nepeta transcaucasica plants started blooming this week
• Anthemis tinctoria have begun opening their yellow flowers this week
• Shirley poppies are blooming here and there where they volunteered
• Malva sylvestris is blooming quite well now. It’s probably at its peak, and they started blooming probably two weeks ago.
• Lamium white and purple are going strong — they started the week before Memorial day but they’re probably at a peak right now.
• Pansies are still blooming well although the heat is hurting them
• English daisies are fading away but still a few flowers
• I have a few small Delphiniums, which are blooming very well now, probably for about a week so far.
• The three Dianthus clumps I made by dividing the original one are all in bloom now. Looking good.
• Some of the Coreopsis tinctoria (Plains coreopsis) are starting to flower just in the past few days
• The Linden tree is flowering, which is not much of a show, but it smells good!
• Achilleas are starting to flower just in the past few days
• My Stella D’oro daylilies are coming into their peak, having been building up for a week or so.
• The Johnson’s Blue geraniums are blooming pretty well, but I hope there’s more of a peak coming.
• Blue Flax is still going fairly strong, with blue flowers in the morning. These have been blooming most of a month.
• Catananche caerulea has really started blooming well in the past five days or so.

By the way, I’m sad to see my Rocky Mountain Penstemon dying. I think it got too moist in last week’s rainstorms. Or perhaps too much compost mulch is smothering it. It’s in a bad location anyway. I think I’ll try to take some cuttings off of the shoot that’s still alive and see if I can propagate it.