Friday, May 15, 2015

Garden Bloggers Bloom Day: May 2015

Happy GBBD! It's been a while since I've posted, despite having a banner iris spring and hundreds of volunteer bluebonnets I kept meaning to photograph. All this rain has been pretty amazing for the landscape; strangely, it's the sun that's missing (so unlike a typical May in Austin). Artichokes and the verbena bonariensis are the stars in front right now, as the magnolia perfumes the air. In back, the 2-year-old Passion Flower vine has totally taken over the fence and is creeping up through the pocket lawn (be careful what you wish for!). IMG_7221 IMG_7224 IMG_7230 IMG_7229 IMG_6307 IMG_6301 IMG_6300 IMG_6292 IMG_6291 IMG_6281 IMG_6279 IMG_6273 IMG_6272 IMG_6256

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Garden Bloggers Bloom Day: July 2014

Happy Garden Bloggers Bloom Day (hosted by May Dreams Gardens)! Today is overcast with light sprinkles, but the past week has been pretty hard on the landscape. Austin has been lucky this year that full summer started late, but it is finally here. We're moving into the season of flame-colored blooms... 

Blackfoot daisy against bronze fennel and Mexican feathergrass IMG_7079
Chocolate cosmos
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Coral bean (this color makes my heart happy) IMG_7074
Coral bean against golden thryallis IMG_7071
Bronze fennel behind globe mallow
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Verbena bonariensis and artemisia
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Tatume squash vines in bloom (you can spot one squash to the right of the tree base...these go from baseball to softball size in less than a day!)
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Trumpet vine monster
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Swallowtails, ladybugs and aphids all living in fennel blooms
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Cigar plant
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Fireworks gomphrena
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Loving the way dittany of crete drapes over the pot (bees love it, too)
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Soapwort (Bouncing Bet) is getting leggy, but she still looks lovely
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First crinum to bloom this year!
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Okay, not blooms but these are from this morning's harvest and are something to look forward to in the summer garden.
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Sunday, June 15, 2014

Garden Bloggers Bloom Day: June 2014

A thunderstorm this past week plus the beginning of summer combined for some pretty blooms this Bloom Day (for more gardens, check out May Dreams Gardens).

Mutabilis rose
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Martha Gonzalez rose
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Tropical milkweed
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Passionvine
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Soapwort and Mexican petunia
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Trumpetvine
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Cosmos and feathergrass
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Globe mallow
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Gregg's Mist
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California poppies
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Coneflower (passalong from a neighbor)
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Peter's purple monarda
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Coral bean
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Beach vitex
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Chocolate cosmos
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Thursday, May 15, 2014

Garden Bloggers Bloom Day: May 2014

It's all shades of purple with orange accents up in here for this month's GBBD (hosted by May Dreams Gardens), starting with the star of the front yard: artichoke (and, yes, they do feel like koosh balls).
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Curb strip Candystripe cosmos, from seed thrown out last year
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Globe mallow just keeps trucking along
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Creeping germander hasn't crept very far, but the blooms remind me of lavender
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Passionvine
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Mexican petunia, filling in with no help from me, per usual
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End of the larkspur among the iris foliage
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Heartleaf skullcap
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Trumpet vine just started blooming yesterday
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Not pictured, but just started blooming: magnolia, crepe myrtle and coral bean.

Happy spring, gardeners!