We put out a few seeds last year and I just noticed this lovely snow-on-the-mountain plant blooming yesterday! there’s only one, so I’m not sure if its seeds will be viable or not.
I hope the Lizardtail gaura is firmly established after this year. There are multiple plants flowering and going to seed in several places around the yard. Wild annual sunflowers blooming in the background. Blue mistflower is blooming! Before I took the picture it had a bee fly and several tiny bees on it but they did not like my camera phone coming up close. The fall obedient plants from a coworker are considering blooming. I put several around the yard and this one by the friendly moisture of the bird bath is doing best. The Texas mallow has been blooming regularly in the dry shade. Paula saw a hummingbird feeding at one a few weeks ago. My Canada goldenrod from Abby is doing well and just started to bloom!
Last night we had a lovely series of small thunderstorms and got a half an inch of rain in the gauge. This morning I think the flowers looked a little cleaner!! These are Grindelia ciliata in front of gaura and Maximilian sunflowers. The smaller yellow flowers are Heterotheca subaxillaris, which I recently learned has the common name of camphorweed. I keep forgetting to smell it.
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!