The last few weeks have been a bit chaotic. Nonetheless, Briar says it’s important to take time to smell the inland sea oats!The yellow flowerThe flower on its giant plantsMy mystery soft growing plants have turned out to be GIANT Heterotheca subaxillaris. the flowers are regular size but the plants are 2-4 feet tall!
Ironweed, gaura, four point primrose, gumweed, and more have grown very tall this year. Briar likes her short grassy spot at the edge of the very tall “prairie”.My supervisor likes her grassy spot. A rattlebox flower blooming again!Gaura longifolia doing well right now. The gaura are very tall!A very late Texas Dandelion blooming this morning!
Briar the dog had her sixth birthday today. We took a walk at Lexington WMA! The low clouds and a breeze kept us cooler than usual for July. Occasionally I asked Briar to sit so she wouldn’t scare a bug we were looking at. Even with the cooler than typical July weather, Briar still enjoyed laying in her favorite mud puddle. Cool is mid 80s in July!
I was pulling some bermudagrass that is still in the buffalograss. Briar sat and helped. Behind her is the orange and red section of the rainbow garden. The new orange Agastache is in full bloom by the dwarf peach tree. The tall stalks are what’s still blooming of the standing cypress. In front of those stalks are the Will Rogers zinnias. After a few generations some other colors are sneaking in- especially that bright yellow one! It’s pretty though. Over by the house in the background you can see our Maximilian Sunflowers in front of the trash and recycling bins sure have gotten tall.
Potted E. vivipara flowers!Briar guards The front yard one blooms too. PrettyWe want fruit! Paula used a q-tip to pollinate. Hopefully also some insects will visit.
Paula took Briar out on Wednesday night and she found a possum. The possum says “nobody home! Ignore my tight grip on the bird bath!!” it worked though. Briar wandered off. After Briar wandered off to drink water and Paula got this lovely picture of the goofy young creature. They were gone by the time we humans checked again for the young friend. A great bit of possum theatre with Briar none the wiser!