I'm not weighing in with any particular viewpoint or lessons learned today, other than thinking it advisable to start keeping better track of what is blooming, and when. So, without further ado...what is blooming in this middle of the month of June, 2015:
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| Fennel |
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| Turk's Cap |
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| Goldeneye |
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| Coral Yucca |
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| Sunflower, unspecified |
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| Purple Coneflower |
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| Prairie Verbena |
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| CandyLand - Bromeliad central... |
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| Bromeliad flowers nestled in pink bracts |
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| Blanket Flower, Winecup and Fleabane |
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| OxEye Daisy |
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| Common Daylily |
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| Tropical Salvia |
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| Coreopsis |
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| Henry Duelberg Salvia |
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| Monarda |
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| Four-o-clock/Marvel of Peru |
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| Althea/Rose of Sharon |
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| Datura/Jimson Weed |
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| Prairie Coneflower |
I may have missed one or two but that's the vast majority of the floral action at the moment. I was surprised to note how there are flowers in every color at play - I always have the impression my garden beds are predominately purple or yellow, when the truth is I have lots of white, a bit of pink, orange, and even a a few plants with red flowers. So what's my color story here? "Rainbow" will have to be my answer. A little bit of every color, and every one appreciated in turn.
Thanks for indulging my wish to take stock and tolerating the flower "show". I hope to be back soon with a little more content to accompany the photographs. In the meantime, we had over an inch of rain already in June with more promised as a tropical storm heads our way. There is nothing typical about the weather this year and I hope to take full advantage, rearranging and adding plants well past the usual "stop work" dates for central Texas. Could there be some "before and after" fun lurking just over the horizon? There could, there certainly could...
