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Lots of little flowers |
June 19, 2025. After a rainy finish to spring, the garden is in active growth. Not many new flowers or plant features to report, but the growth spurt has many of the old familiars blooming simultaneously. Take the foundation border lobe, pictured here. The showy amaryllis are long gone, but the poppy mallows are still going strong, as are the red salvias and a few red rain lilies to round out the reds and purples. On the yellow-to-orange spectrum, the Texas crag lilies have fired up their show, and volunteer tropical milkweeds are putting in a strong performance this year. The yellow rain lilies finally decided to bloom, the last zephyranthes to do so in our garden this year, while Z. dichromantha has already finished its second flush. Yet to bloom are the Texas onion and the pink fairy duster – and hopefully a few more surprises. Overhead, the hardy tapioca tree has finished blooming, but is growing its round seed pods, which I hope will reach maturity this year; they've fallen off prematurely in previous years. |
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September 09, 2009
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