Bloomin' in April.

It's been a while since I posted, and since I've stalled a bit on the landscaping due to rain and minor injury (strained chest muscle) I can't post before/after shots of the ones I started a couple weeks ago. But I also notice that I haven't put a post about what was blooming in the garden in April, and since it's now May, I should remedy that! So here are the high-lights.

First, to the left, we have the container I planted with some of the plants from the LBJ Wildflower sale and another nursery we went to (discussed here). This is one of the sea oats (grass), the 'Lilac Spoon' Osteospermum, and the Pelargonium sidoides (geranium, with it's little butterfly-like dark purple blooms and silvery foliage).

The cacti have continued to bloom apace. This is the Echinocereus (Lace Cactus) I picked up at the Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center sale earlier this month with a l'il beetle-bug snorgling the stamens:



This is a really cool clematis that I bought a couple wildflower sales ago that is naturalized to Texas and really goes gangbusters (I have another one that I'll post for next month). This one is "Pagoda"--and you can see that the sweet little lavender flowers are more like little inverted cups (or pagodas) than the large open hybrids that I also have. The vine is a lot more vigorous too. I like how this looks against the weathered fence and the weathered wood butterfly house (which seems to be just for show--I don't think any caterpillars have taken up residence in it yet).


Okay, you know I love Gerbera Daisies, and this beautiful blush-colored one is actually growing in one of the flower beds out front and has survived two winters:

This is "Bronze Sonnet" Snapdragon. LOVE. It's located in a bed right under the bedroom window at the front of the house. There's a dark pink tea-rose there that hasn't bloomed yet and a whole assortment of other things in hot, bright colors and a few dark ones to balance it out--like "Blue & Black" Salvia.


Below is 'Prairie Sunrise' shrub rose, growing in my rose border out back:



The wildflower border still has poppies blooming, now in shades of pink and white as well as a few lingering reds, and evening primroses, but the coreopsis is now blooming as well. I'm beginning to wonder if the cornflowers we had last year will be back, but perhaps it is still too early.

Love this white poppy--so delicate!