Every month just past Garden Bloggers Bloom Day, Pam over at
Digging hosts a
Foliage Follow-Up post-a-thon designed to our increase appreciation for the non-floral wonders in our gardening spaces. I typically miss both events. For whatever reason the bloom and leaf memes both sneak up on me month after month, without my having a thing organized to share.
And you'd think it being summertime would fix that, because this is the time of year when experienced gardeners in Central Texas know it is time to hunker down and wait out the heat before attempting to plant anything. And mostly, that is just what I do. Other than scattering a little wildflower seed here and there, this is a
planning rather than planting season for me. Except...
Recently I came across an array of locally grown, totally enticing succulents on sale at an agreeable price, hosted in four inch pots. I get a little weak in the knees when it comes to succulents, so when I felt that familiar stirring deep in my soul and got the urge to buy some new plant babies to take home? I just went with it. I had empty pots ready and waiting and just the spot to park them. Done, and done.
I realize this post isn't coming after anything, and so technically is only a faux foliage follow-up, but I'm most definitely happy to share a little love for the shapes and forms and colors to be found in
these leaves.
Thanks, Pam!
