Most Excellent Use of Median

Indian Paintbrush
Firewheel and Mexican Hat
I don't know but it reminds me of Foxglove.
Some sort of legume, I presume? Delicate little purple flowers.
Wild Honeysuckle (?) growing around the tree, which is ok with me!
All in the median outside our house! That's my black car in front of the gate to our street. Our backyard faces this stuff, which is probably the only reason I get any pollinators at all.
Way to go, City of Richardson.

Dallas or Seattle?

Just to prove that we do occasionally have a rainy season. I am liking it.

a giant broccoli.

I have a giant broccoli. It will bolt as soon as the bud come out, but it's pretty and i like it.

An Iris that has Bloomed

Three times, to be exact. In the backyard.

Flowers in the Front

Irises that haven't bloomed yet
See previous post about anemones being great.
Calendula.
Ice plant.
All live in my front yard.

front door

There is a little white anemone!

Garden update

I planted these onions last fall and totally ignored them since then. Way to go nature. Bonus pics: catnip and leeks that I have also ignored, kitteh, and this morning's fogginess to prove that it does, on occasion, rain in Texas.

Floof!

Bonus belleh-in-the-air kitteh pics!

After being subjected to gardening, Brayden was just exhausted and pooped out in the car. If you look closely at the previous posts you can see the beginnings of some very ominous sleepy eyes.
I had to wake him up for some Bath Marie's Old Fashioned Ice Cream on the square in Denton. He had chocolate with sprinkles and found some little girls to flirt with (he just loves little girls--what's up with that?). We rounded out the day with some playground action.

Irises

Last Friday I subjected Brayden to gardening. First we planted some okra-lings in some oh-so-tempting beds by the front gates that I later learned were slated for desecration by some landscaper Dad hired. Then we went to an iris show and Argyle Acres. AA's farm is just a few houses down from the Barlow homestead, a big field of irises growing on the side of Bonnie Brae St. The owners live a little deeper in the heart of Argyle, just a few miles from us. That's where the show garden is. I love their trees and their old-fashioned flowers. Enjoy the few short green weeks that Texas gets.

I tooked some pictures of wildflowers. We actually have a lot in our neighborhood. They let them grown in the medians. These were next to some soccer fields.
There are some nice things about living in Texas.

Happy Earthday!

The Fujitsu campus in our neighborhood has a large field of bluebonnets that they haven't paved yet. Ignore the fact that it's situated between a six lane toll road and an industrial park. There are some nice things about living in Texas.
I put some bumper stickers on my car in honor of Earth Day. Also because I love bumper stickers.

Precious Poofy-kins

Here are some steps I built out of stones to hold herb pots. Bonus picture of kitteh! I'm going to go ride Thomas' bike.

More Pics

You can see the beds I put in in the front this week. I hope the HOA approves of zucchini. I personally think it enhances curb appeal and property value in a down economy. Also you can see the back of my awesome new car.
The Tall Telephone Pea in the backyard from the winter is really fun and tasty, but the whole trellis fell over during the big storm last week and now it's spreading over the ground. That plant is a monster.
Middle picture is arugula from last winter running wild and bolting. Still tastes pretty good though, and I think the flowers have a pretty cottage garden look.

First Pics of Spring!

Here is my garden. you can see the raised beds i built along the neighbor's house in the bottom shot. They are in the shadiest part of the yard. On the left is a trellis I put up today for some baby pea plants. We sampled our first carrots yesterday, and they are tastier than store carrots (but I am biased). The fava beans did great over winter with almost no care at all. They grew into this huge beautiful bush and sprouted some very attractive and fragrant little white and black flowers (no pics, poo). I'm still learning how to harvest and cook them. I'll definitely grow this again next year.