I’m no gardening expert, at least not yet anyway. Â But give me 20 or 30 years and I’ll probably know a thing or two. Â What I know right now it there are a few different plants blooming in my central texas garden. Â My regular readers know that I’ve just begun to landscape my backyard. Â I’ve been checking out other local bloggers gardens (incredible stuff out there), and gathering ideas about what I want in my yard.
Yesterday, while doing a little late afternoon watering, several of my new plants began to bloom. Â Here are a few quick photos I grabbed while watering:
pictures of purple passiflora - a passion vine in bloom
A lone white camellia is in bloom on this week after easter
This white camellia has been in bloom for a few days, as evidenced buy the slightly brown edges and spots
Red Verbena in bloom
What are your favorite flowers to grow and watch bloom?
camellia’s are so pretty! We have lots of tulips and hydrangeas cropping up in our yard at the moment.
Eric did you ever get over to Jan’s blog ? .. and I think I answered your comment sir ! LOL
We .. well Kathleen on the American side but same zone as I am in 5b .. are in the second year of our experiment with the passion flower called “Maypop” .. mine grew like crazy and had one flower last year and Kathleen had almost no growth and no flower .. so we are wondering what will happen after this winter. BTW yours is beautiful ..
Hellebore are the “it” perennial this time of year for me .. we have lots of Spring bulbs which are nice to see .. but for now my eyes are on the ‘bores … that could be a great joke .. so many jokes, so little time ? wink wink
Joy
The flowers look great Eric! I love tulips this time of year. They just seem to die so quickly though!
Cat – That’s what makes tulips so magical – they are so tricky to grow (unless you live in a place that gets a hard freeze), and then gone in a week. But during that one week, all your hard work pays off!
hi eric! thanks for stopping by. come again sometime!
my absolute favorite flowers are lilacs and sunflowers. i grew up with a lilac bush just off our back patio, and when you left the back door open the breeze blew the scent in and it was heavenly. sunflowers–well, they’re just super-saturated happiness (yellow!), and you really can’t go wrong.
i like watching my christmas cactus flower, because the silly thing struggles to put out one bloom at a time at random times throughout the year (rather than a multitude around christmas). it’s small heartbreak when the bloom doesn’t make it, but not-so-small joy when it opens. =)
Beautiful pictures of even more beautiful flowers. Thanks for sharing.
We’re just in the beginning of spring here in the mountains of Virginia. Dogwoods and Redbuds are in full bloom, but I haven’t even had to cut my grass yet!
Stan Horst
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Yeah Stan, I hear you about cutting the grass. I’m not looking forward to that chore.
there is a tree blooming by the lakes in austin. from a distance it’s slightly purple. flowers look like star jasmin flowers but white with purpke stamen. there are resisual yellow berries on it. its fragrant. do you know what it is.
I sure do. It’s a Chinaberry tree, and my neighbors have one right next door.
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