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

4 comments:

Lea said...

Beautiful Magnolias!

katina said...

Oh the passionvine - it amazes me that the darn thing sends up shoots like 3' away from the mother plant, and then another 3' from that and so on and so forth until it has taken over everything.

Dig, Grow, Compost, Blog said...

Be careful what you wish for, indeed! Is that a white firecracker plant in the last photo?

Amy Farrier said...

Jean, it's a yellow firecracker fern (sometimes it'll have a few red blooms or a red stripe here or there).