Gardening, anyone?
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I, too, love the pics! Jazzy I was jealously admiring your colorful sedums and figuring that our drought meant summer color was over when - Texas Sage blooms! They mean rain, and we did have a great afternoon downpour. Hope that wasn't it. Linda
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Teka - it is so cool. It only blooms when it's going to rain. The rest of the time, year round, it's a s oft shade of sage green. It makes me pay attention✌️❤️ Linda
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Booklady- wow, your TX Sage is beautiful! I had one in my yard for a year but it did not make it. Planted during the drought time and despite watering, it died. Other neighbors have done them with greater success. The blooms on yours are really nice!
The sage that does so well here is our Russian sage that gets huge with rain. I had to cut mine back twice this summer!
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Here is the "pinking up" of the autumn harvest sedum in the backyard. I have had this one for awhile and it has grown very tall this year with the rain. The flowers remind me of cauliflower. In another week or so they will be a deep mauve color, which is such a cool color you never see in a garden. I will post again when they come in to full color.
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And finally, can any of you relate?
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oh yes! I can relate! At first I thought it said Lost "IN" the garden. Relate to that too haha.
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Better than lost in grocery store parking lot like I was today. Jazzy, you have a great eye and decorators touch. Your pots, your accessories, your layout - it is very welcoming and beautiful - there is always something new to see. Please come to Austin and teach me. Or I'll just copy you - no one here will know. Lind
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Booklady- thank you for the nice compliments! One of my BFFs lives in Austin, so I do make my way over there on occasion! I would love to come teach you. It is really not design thinking, as as much as just seeing something that speaks to me and then adding to it. It's all a process of adding as the season goes on.
For that little pot, I had bought a friend of mine one with a plant in it this spring for Easter who was going through chemo. I was sorry I never got one of those same pots for myself, but later went back to the nursery and they still had them. I bought the snowflake plant and put it in that pot (it will need to go in the groud this fall to establish before the cold comes so I am looking for a good spot). Then a few months later, I was a my fav tea shop and found a bunch of gardening things there on sale (gardening stuff at the tea shop, huh?) I love how the little sign goes perfectly with the pot!
Here is my final photo for today. I bought these sunflowers bunches at the farmers market yesterday. She told me the flowers were dropping a lot of pollen, so I had to put the container outside today (ah choo!) Then I went out later to see the bumblebees all over the flowers! We talked about not seeing a lot of bumblebees around, but this year, my yard is filled with them!
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Beautiful!
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Been weak and fighting to breath,
but Faith is a helper and I love her so.
God bless You for You caring heart.
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Foots- sending you a prayer for better breathing. I hope you feel better today.
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Hello all - just had to share a little late summer color from the Farmer's Market this week. I don't grow dahlias myself, so I am always drawn to them. Enjoyed all the lovely recent pics!
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Pretty!
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Pretty pictures ladies. Texas sage blooming is a new one for me. I so enjoy seeing what everyone can grow.
I have a couple of new kinds of sunflowers blooming. We've had plenty of bumble bees but only see the honey bees occasionally. They seem to like the sunflowers and are swarming the sedums.
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Matrona sedum
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Autumn joy sedum
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Love all the beautiful flowers here ladies!
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So inspiring! I'm going to check out sedums in my native plant book🌻Linda
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Great pictures. I need to get back out in the garden. My husband, though, has become quite the gardener in these last few months. I also loved the sign, "Trespassers will be Composted!" I need to get one of those for my dad for his birthday.
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Saturday night it snowed about 4 inches in Jasper, which is just a couples hrs north of here. Surprised we didn't get it as it has been barely above zero. I hate the cold.
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70s charger- wow, snow already? I am still enjoying the last of summer!
I heard from a colleague in Wyoming it snowed there not too long ago. We will see our first snow in the mountains by Halloween.
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Teka- love the cat! Goes nicely with the flowers!
Went to Old Town for lunch yesterday and then to the nearby nature center for a visit with a friend. The flower pics are from both locations. We think the big red flowers (bottom) are hostas, do any of you know?
Other pics feature from top to bottom, mexican red hat, blooming chamisa (ahh choo), purple asters, and a blanket of purple flowers we could not find a tag for to know what they were. Any ideas?
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Teka- I posted on FB and got the same answer! I have never seen them here before, but perhaps with all the rain this year, they are doing better than in the past? Red is my favorite color and I just love the ones we saw yesterday!
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Darn - the flower looks like some of my sage plants, but not with that heart shaped leaf. Y'all have inspired me, again. I picked up some sice fence pieces in neighbors trash pile to paint and use for star jasmine in my back yard and I'm going to visit Ladybird Johnsons wildflower center with a a friend next week. I. It's plummeting to 98 today
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Are the pink flowers 4 o'clocks? They open in the late afternoon/evening. Ours are yellow, but they come in all colors.
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Snow? It's sbout 100 degrees here in Cali for the next few days!
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Wren- those flowers were actually purple, but seem to be pink in the picture. I looked at a photo of a 4 o'clock and the flower looks similar when closed, but not sure the leaf is right. I may keep looking, my friend who I was with is looking too, she did a Master Gardeners class this year but did not know......
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I think they are not 4 o'clocks. Here are photos of mine.
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Those are pretty Wren!
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I think those purple flowers are turtleheads. Here is a photo of hardy hibiscus - it always amazes me that something that looks this tropical survives in this climate.
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