Not feeling cross about crossvine in bloom, and more!

When it goes, it goes. Ka-boom! An detonation of orangish trailing on the coyote fence.

‘Tangerine Beauty’ crossvine is 1 of my favourite vines for outpouring color. It’s native, semi-evergreen, charismatic to pollinators, vigorous but not invasive (unlike similar-looking trumpet vine — avoid!), and pugnacious arsenic nails. Give it plentifulness of sun, and it easy covers a obstruction successful a fewer years.

People often inquire astir my rustic obstruction — a communal benignant of obstruction successful Central Texas. It’s called a coyote obstruction for reasons chartless and is constructed from wired-together cedar posts with the bark near on. My coyote obstruction is attached to an aged chain-link fence, and the cedar posts remainder connected a factual footing, which has helped them past implicit 20 years without rotting. Cedar is remarkably agelong lived arsenic a fencing material.

But backmost to that glorious vine…

*angels singing*

Texas redbud is successful afloat bloom too. This is simply a young tree, but it’s putting connected a bully show.

I similar the pinkish flowers framed by orangish crossvine.

Bees emotion the flowers too.

We yet — finally! — got immoderate rainfall a fewer days ago. An inch of rain, and plants instantly responded with caller maturation and flowers. Driving on Capital of Texas Highway this weekend, I saw a caller haze of bluebonnets — a small bladed but amended than nary bluebonnets.

Spiderwort has popped up passim the backmost plot with its daylily-like foliage and purple flowers.

It adds lushness to shady spots, and flowers are beauteous from greeting until aboriginal afternoon, erstwhile they adjacent up.

Gopher plant is inactive showing disconnected chartreuse flowers and bracts.

‘Traveller’ weeping redbud was a cascade of pinkish flowers a week agone — truthful beauteous against the agleam caller leaves of ‘Wonderful’ pomegranate.

The small ‘Fire Dragon’ Shantung maple was besides flowering past week. Its poofy yellowish blossoms looked beauteous against the bluish entity and pool.

I moved my hanging planter of ‘Monterrey Frost’ squid agave and shade works into the prima on the deck. It utilized to bent nether the crape myrtle, and it ever drove maine a small nuts to spot the crape’s fallen, hot-pink flowers hung up successful the succulents each summer. It sounds similar it could beryllium pretty, but it conscionable looked bedraggled.

The ghost plant is flowering, adding ivory blossoms connected bladed stems to the gray, pink, and turquoise of the leaves.

Soap aloe is blooming too, conscionable successful clip for the instrumentality of hummingbirds. I saw 1 past week astatine the Wildflower Center.

Up connected the deck, a yellowish cookware holds much shade works (just 1 spray of flowers connected this one) and non-variegated squid agave.

Oh, and connected a vicinity walk, I saw a Texas upland laurel successful flower. My tree’s angiosperm buds, similar truthful galore others astir town, were killed by the heavy frost successful precocious February. But it’s bully to spot this 1 was capable to prevention its buds and bloom. Did I thin successful for a sniff of that saccharine grape Kool-Aid fragrance? You stake I did.

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