Archive for the ‘garden’ Category

Flowers and butterfly’s

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Todays Growing non blogs

-Mesquite beans

-that is wild morning glory that swamps over many things

-this Zenia showed up where one was last year

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Butterfly’s as Landscape

Today’s Flower and Landscape photo’s, with visitors.

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which is more colorful, passion flowers or butterfly?

butterfly on lantana

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Desert flowers and grassland

ex tomato hornworm getting drinks from verbena.

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today’s view of grass and fields of gold still looking like grass.
and spring wildflowers are still going into August–Indian Blanket below

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Dog Flower

-The dog and flower evening. Sasha and canna lily

-The front yard with monsoon grassland, cottonwoods and mesquite trees and a live oak or two

-noon flowering (yet) fields of gold, some ivy, baby mulberry trees, lots of vinca.

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Late July in the high desert

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These are from my yard yesterday.  These cute flowers make a poisonous bean–Castor Bean

and a yellow Canna Lily just blooming

and perennial red clover

and wild Lantana

and then grass and company, wild in the wash.

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Ocotillo Cactus at sundown

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the prior sunset

yesterday with flowering Crape Myrtle trees

and yesterdays petunia’s in a light weight cement pot I made about 10 years ago. These once hybrid petunia’s come back every year, last through most winters as well.

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Grapes

I had all the grapes I could eat last year for a while. When I grew up in the Midwest, we had grape vines in our side yard that you could sit on (at trunk curves) and eat the grapes inside of a green tunnel. Occasionally surprised birds would see me and seem [...]

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MORE OF TODAY’S FLOWERS

Mid level (4000′) desert growing in June

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and a Chinaberry Shade.

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HAVE A FLOWER

or two or three…

These red flowers are hollyhocks. They are a wildflower here since I planted them. More come up every year, just need some water. Some are a foot tall and flowering, some 9 feet tall. Keep watering them and they tend to keep flowering. They flower here usually [...]

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