Today's zinnia bouquets

Inside Austin Gardens Tour - Fall 2009

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In the garden today

I've got new colors of zinnias coming in everyday: lovely, exciting colors. Planted my square foot garden with some fall veggies (kale, beets, and bok choy from seed; broccoli, arugula, cilantro, dill, and strawberry plants), but the basil and zinnias are being sun and space hogs right now (the chard seedlings are getting shaded out).

Zinnias

Today in the backyard

Wyoming cannas

patio tomatoes that survived the summer heat

cypress vine

zinnia patch about to start blooming

sweet basil

grass in need of mowing

rain of gold shrub

Rain

So, it's been forever since I last posted, but this summer has been so long and hot and dry that my garden's in survival mode. Which means lots of dropped leaves and not many thriving plants. But we got a little bit of rain this morning and here's Lloyd scanning the sky for any more that might come our way. Ironically, the plumeria that I used to be unable to get to bloom has had flowers for the past two months.

Honeysuckle

Bee paradise in the backyard