Time Flies!

I found my sweet old blog after many years of absence!  Fast forward SIX years!

 I love these variegated petunias I find @ Calloway's every year!

Hung this door outside several years ago.  It's already getting rickety.

 Grandma's 'Flags" (Iris')

 Four O'Clocks!

 Porch Swing Pergola

 The Harbinger of Spring

 Another shot of my swing pergola!

 Water Barrel

 Honeysuckle vine grown from one sprig

from Nancy's garden.

 Irises from my garden

 Love these overalls from Silver Dollar City

 Backyard Wheelbarrow

Celeste Fig Leaf... got this tree at Maldanado's

in the Hill Country 

Cardinal feeder

 Front yard iris'

Bridal Wreath bush

 

Another shot of grandma's and A. Doris' iris'

Sweet bottle tree

 Baby girl tried her hand at gardening.

Better luck next time!  :)

I love these little guys! 

 The whole yard smells of this honeysuckle!

 Dressing up the porch swing!

Jerusalem Sage... RIP!  Lost last year.

Progress in the Garden

Happy GTS to all! Can you believe it's JULY??? How did that happen?

It's hard to believe in the Dallas area, as temps are milder and the rain won't stop.

Maybe it's time for an ark-building 101 class? It's been hard to take any photos, but I got a few in between the raindrops. Right now, we have 6 inches of standing water right off the screened porch!

Though it's a dreary backdrop, the flowers are loving all the rain.

Everything is lush, which is unusual for this time of year.



Irridescent pink 4 O'Clock




Mexican Petunia.

I now have a huge bed of these, though a year ago there were only SIX plants! Some consider these invasive, but they're easily pulled up and passed along.

Truly a work in progress. This is yesterday in my very wet backyard.

This is a photo of when the beds were first dug this Spring.

I now wish I had done 'before' photos, but it was too

depressing!

Outside my Screened Porch.

This has changed the way we use our backyard.

We eat dinner out here and I start and end each day here. We are going to build an arbor over the front of the porch to help protect the grill a little. I already have the two Sweet Autumn Clematis' planted that will climb over it...how's that for optimistic?!

View from the inside...

When that Wax Myrtle grows up, I hopefully won't have

to look at the neighbor's house. I would prefer a porch overlooking a pond in the country,

but I am smack dab in the middle of suburbia. You take what you can get.

Croquet, anyone?

Ain't it the truth???