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???