Pretty pink & fall orange
‘Carefree Beauty’ rose
Yesterday’s north breeze enticed me into Shoal Creek Nursery down the street to pick out replacement annuals for the bedraggled narrowleaf zinnias in the front courtyard. I decided on purple chrysanthemums to bring out the purple trim on my house. Just in case purple trim can go unnoticed.
While I was digging around in the front garden, I moved a volunteer pavonia to replace an old, tired one, planted a cigar plant next to the orange lantana, which is just starting its fall show, and fertilized the roses.
The air is crisp in the mornings now. Ahhhh. It’s a good feeling to be over the hump of summer in Austin. Here are a few pictures from early this morning.
Orange lantana
Wide shot of the orange lantana, with cigar plant in the foreground
More flower spikes on the kidneywood tree
Rose hips on the ‘Carefree Beauty’ bush
‘Powis Castle’ artemesia and ‘The Fairy’ rose
American beautyberry—in full berry
Its arching branches are laden with purple berries
‘Duchess of Albany’ clematis
I didn’t realize that Clematis would grow here. I tried researching it, but it sounded very difficult to grow.
This is one of the few, I believe. The trusty folks at Natural Gardener recommended it to me. It doesn’t require anything special, just morning sun and afternoon shade. Mine tends to brown up a bit in the summer, but it always comes back. –Pam
Your photos of Kidney Wood in bloom are making it a candidate for my Plants of the Future list; one of these days there will be Arizona Ashes to remove and replace.
Pam, there are a couple of copies of the Native and Adapted Landscape guides floating around, replacements for even earlier editions. If you saw my ‘office’ you’d know why I googled rather than try to find one for a fast lookup. Now the Guide is in front of me, and their photo still makes no impression, although the “fragrant flowers” comment should have triggered my interest!
RSorrell, I have a couple of clematis on a SE wall, under an overhang. One was here when we came, not a large-flowered hybrid, but might be a variety of Clematis viticella. The other had been growing in a large pot on my former covered deck, bought in one of those cardboard cartons [this was a plant rescue]. It frizzles in summer, then reappears and blooms in spring. I think this is a plant where location is critical.
Annie
The July 2005 Grow Green booklet, which I picked up this week, has a better photo of kidneywood than previous versions. Because of its laciness, kidneywood is a hard tree to photograph, at least for me. That’s why I haven’t posted a wide shot of it yet. That, plus mine is still young and straggly. I envision it as the one at the Wildflower Center, but it’s a number of years away from that. –Pam
Surely only a southerner would describe this weather as “crisp”. It’s certainly pleasant, though. And I find it amusing that in our household if the thermometer dips below 70, we get goosebumps.
I’m envious of your roses.