Garden Bloggers Bloom Day September 2008

Gardening in Texas this summer has been tough. Most of my plants did not perform as they have in the past. I am really going to have to work the soil this fall. Today is a beautiful sunny day with temperatures in the upper 70's. I love it and I am looking forward to the fall weather.

Here is a view of my Mexican Bush Sage.

It is large, full, and cheerful.

The best performer in the garden.

Strawberry Globe Amaranth, Pavonia, and the Mexican petunia

that decided this year it would take over a large portion of my walkways. I will definately be weeding some of these out.
More Mexican Petunia!
Obedient plant that is as obedient as my teenager! ha
My one and only gerber daisy bloom all lonely in her pot.
Cosmos from some seeds that I planted this spring.
MORE cosmos with a very interesting color...
Wonderful cinnamon basil
Purple passion vine growing like a beast on my tower! Gotta Love it..
Purple berries are popping up on my american beautyberry.
Yummy for the birdies! Eye candy for me!

I guess from looking at all my blooms the best ones are purple this September.

There are so many more that I didn't not photograph because they look

scraggly.

Here is a list of some of my bloomers that I did not include pix of:

• crepe myrtles
• oleanders
• turks cap
• russian sage
• autumn sedum
• salvia
• zinnia
• red cascade rose
• zephrine rose
• old blush climbing rose
• morning glory
• anicanthus
• pomegranate
• tomatoes
• butterfly bushes
• blue mist flower
• hot lips

I cannot wait for October and Pumpkin time!!

Flowers before the cold snap!

Here is JD (Saginaw Firefighter) and his buddy getting all those bees out of our tree for us. I hope they are able to keep some alive. They are headed to a farm in Peaster.

Purple Pincushion Flower!

Snowball bush

Old Blush climbing on the front fence!

Old Blush coming over the back fence and the rejected birdhouse!

The beautiful Texas Bluebonnet

Zephrine Rose
Some of my beautiful flowers in my spring garden

before the coldspell moves thru,

even though my body says it is freezing already.

Poor tomatoes are already in the ground. I am just hoping they make it or I will be back at the store getting some more. Why does mother nature trick us every year? It was just a few days ago and it was almost 90 degrees.

Spring flowers need showers

My pink hyacinths are blooming. My purple verbena are blooming. My fringeflower is blooming.......... My pincushion flower is blooming. My daffodils have been blooming. My chickweed and dandelions are blooming (UGH not good).!!!! My, my, my everything is budding out and looking alive. I am hoping no late freeze but we know better than that, there is always a late freeze. I have been working to keep the vegies watered. We have not had a drop of rain in it seems like forever. I am going to have to do a rain dance soon! Ha! That would be funny. I dance like a chicken.