Texas Gardening: April 2012 blooms, 1 by drthor

drthor wrote:
morganc,
thanks for the nice words.
I do have only 3 small beds in the front of the house that I plant annuals.
Pansies in the fall/winter and Zinnias in the spring/summer
Everything else are perennials and come and go by themselves.

The hardest gardening days are:
February 14th - when I cut down all the roses and perennials
mid November - when I clean out all the summer flowers ... like zinnias and others.

I let all my flowers re-seeds ... example: Poppies and Foxgloves ... they will make a seed stalk and look kind of ugly for a while ... the seeds will dry out and some will be eaten by birds and some will fly around ...
I really think a bird ate my poppy seeds in the front and pooped them in the back garden ...
This is what my Italian grandmother garden did look like ... but much much bigger and so many more flowers ... so I am still working on it.
I hope to remove all the grass in the front one day ... that's what I did in the back ...