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Early summer season backyard scenes in Austin

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Early summer season backyard scenes in Austin


June 17, 2024

On my walks across the neighborhood, I’m admiring Satisfaction of Barbados (Caesalpinia pulcherrima), the star of Austin’s summer season gardens.

It’s so lovely, each leaves and flowers. For no matter purpose, I haven’t been in a position to get it established in my very own backyard, darn it.

It loves warmth and solar, and deer don’t hassle it within the least. It simply wants room to get massive.

My favourite pale-pink crape myrtle can also be flowering at a neighbor’s home. They’ve a row of those gorgeous crapes, which you’ll be able to see extra of on this Instagram video I took. I’d love so that you can comply with me there, by the way in which, in case you take pleasure in pics of Texas crops and gardens!

In my very own backyard, dwarf palmetto (Sabal minor) is flowering. The tiny, ivory flowers seem on 10-foot-long stems bent like fishing poles.

After the flowers fade, black berry-like fruits seem on the stems.

Bees discover the fragile flowers to their style.

Within the again backyard, success! The bronze fennel I planted within the spring has attracted swallowtail caterpillars. You possibly can see two on this picture. Somebody requested me if I do something to guard them from hungry birds, and the reply is not any. It’s just about reside and let reside (or get eaten) in my backyard. Birds gotta eat, like snakes and armadillos and every thing else. However I do hope a number of the caterpillars make it to the butterfly stage.

The circle backyard has moved into its serene, silver-green/silver-blue section, a cooling shade scheme for a sizzling Texas summer season.

Within the central stock-tank planter, whale’s tongue agave (Agave ovatifolia) presides over woolly stemodia (Stemodia lanata), which is dominating the yellow four-nerve daisies (Tetraneuris scaposa) that have been so outstanding final 12 months. Purple coneflower provides a touch of pink on one facet.

Seen from above, the massive whale’s tongue — I’ve named her Ursula — reveals off her moonlight-yellow variegation.

Mixed with the bottle tree, blue shed doorways, and silver mirror, it’s a cool view to get me by means of summer season till fall.

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