Adding Drama to a Central Texas Garden

Spider Lily flowers come on the scene just as spring flowers are fading, adding just the right touch of dramatic magnificence to the shady locales of the garden.

Farmer's Market Flowers for Easter Celebrations

Farmer's Market flowers made all the more special when gifted by the hands of a child.  Even if she's grown ♥ maybe especially when she's grown. 

November Pond

November pond 

White Flowers of May

Yarrow in the south wall garden.

White water lilies in stock tank pond at twilight. 

Impulsivity

1. Impulsivity :: a predisposition toward rapid, unplanned reactions to internal or external stimuli without regard to the negative consequences of these ...
2. Annual moonflower vine wants sun; my garden has little, reseeds readily; we're short on space and I've yet to find a home for her but all that aside, I'd say the acquisition was nothing short of brilliant. 
3. A camera and a penchant for fragrant, hand-sized flowers can make an impulsive purchase appear as if it were a perfectly rational plan...  
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Wordless Wednesday :: Sweet Almond Verbena :: Bring It In

or not.

And What a Wonderful World It Is

If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment.

Georgia O'Keeffe

*garlic chive blossom*

This is Where I Would Bee Too :: Sweet Almond Verbena

Sweet almond verbena (Aloysia virgata) beckons from across the garden.  The scent of this sweetly flowering shrub compels pollinators and gardeners alike to seek out the wispy blooms.  So small and seemingly insignificant, they throw off the most amazing amount of luscious scent. 

Impossible to resist ...

Of Bees and Oregano

Sometimes you think something is thriving but it really isn't.  And you don't know that until you try it someplace else.  This oregano has been growing in the back garden for years.  It seems happy enough but never gives more than a smattering of blooms. 

While cutting it back last year I scooped up some roots and buried them in the front garden.  Now I know what happy oregano really looks like.  There are blooms everywhere and most importantly and most happily, there are dozens of bees.  Now that just makes me smile. 

If you have a bunch of oregano try this recipe.  It's a keeper. 

Wordless Wednesday :: Gardenia :: Bring Them In!

To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.  

                                                                                                                                       Beverly Nichols

Cemetary Iris

The first plant to bloom in my garden this spring ...

It's Friday! What Are Your Weekend Gardening Plans? Inspire Me!

I want to hear what you're doing this weekend in the garden!  Inspire me, friends.