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!).
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
Chocolate cosmos
Coral bean (this color makes my heart happy)
Coral bean against golden thryallis
Bronze fennel behind globe mallow
Verbena bonariensis and artemisia
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!)
Trumpet vine monster
Swallowtails, ladybugs and aphids all living in fennel blooms
Cigar plant
Fireworks gomphrena
Loving the way dittany of crete drapes over the pot (bees love it, too)
Soapwort (Bouncing Bet) is getting leggy, but she still looks lovely
First crinum to bloom this year!
Okay, not blooms but these are from this morning's harvest and are something to look forward to in the summer garden.
Blackfoot daisy against bronze fennel and Mexican feathergrass
Chocolate cosmos
Coral bean (this color makes my heart happy)
Coral bean against golden thryallis
Bronze fennel behind globe mallow
Verbena bonariensis and artemisia
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!)
Trumpet vine monster
Swallowtails, ladybugs and aphids all living in fennel blooms
Cigar plant
Fireworks gomphrena
Loving the way dittany of crete drapes over the pot (bees love it, too)
Soapwort (Bouncing Bet) is getting leggy, but she still looks lovely
First crinum to bloom this year!
Okay, not blooms but these are from this morning's harvest and are something to look forward to in the summer garden.
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
Martha Gonzalez rose
Pale pavonia
Tropical milkweed
Passionvine
Soapwort and Mexican petunia
Trumpetvine
Cosmos and feathergrass
Globe mallow
Gregg's Mist
California poppies
Coneflower (passalong from a neighbor)
Peter's purple monarda
Coral bean
Beach vitex
Chocolate cosmos
Mutabilis rose
Martha Gonzalez rose
Pale pavonia
Tropical milkweed
Passionvine
Soapwort and Mexican petunia
Trumpetvine
Cosmos and feathergrass
Globe mallow
Gregg's Mist
California poppies
Coneflower (passalong from a neighbor)
Peter's purple monarda
Coral bean
Beach vitex
Chocolate cosmos
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).
Curb strip Candystripe cosmos, from seed thrown out last year
Globe mallow just keeps trucking along
Creeping germander hasn't crept very far, but the blooms remind me of lavender
Passionvine
Mexican petunia, filling in with no help from me, per usual
End of the larkspur among the iris foliage
Heartleaf skullcap
Trumpet vine just started blooming yesterday
Not pictured, but just started blooming: magnolia, crepe myrtle and coral bean.
Happy spring, gardeners!
Curb strip Candystripe cosmos, from seed thrown out last year
Globe mallow just keeps trucking along
Creeping germander hasn't crept very far, but the blooms remind me of lavender
Passionvine
Mexican petunia, filling in with no help from me, per usual
End of the larkspur among the iris foliage
Heartleaf skullcap
Trumpet vine just started blooming yesterday
Not pictured, but just started blooming: magnolia, crepe myrtle and coral bean.
Happy spring, gardeners!
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