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August Bloomers!
These are still blooming:
palatoxia hookeriana (this one is new for me, really like it)
Texas bluebells
fuzzy bean vine, strophostyles helvola (don't remember planting it)
cosmos
salvia coccinea
morning glory 'Emma Lynn'
one small bloom of clematis 'ville de Lyon'
Brazil. rock rose
turk's cap
Passiflora cearulea
bat face
And today, the lovely oxblood lily.
Josephine, your cowpen daisy have been blooming...so cheery, bright yellow blooms. Thanks for the seeds.
I have forgotten the name of this salvia. HELP!
The hummers visit it all day long.
It is a little color relief in my acres brownness and ground cracks that look like a movie earthquake scene with dinosaurs falling in the cracks. This dino has fell in a couple without any help from Aunt Minnie's remedy.
I am lucky I changed the original spirea wording to salvia in my message. That would have got me a heehaw.
I am old coot. Coots are infamous for their instant recall.
Larry, that looks like Mealy Blue Sage, Salvia farinacea;
http://wildflower.org/gallery/result.php?id_image=17272
I am so glad the Cowpen Daisy did well for you, it blooms and blooms and all the insects love it.
Josephine.
Josephine here is a closeup of plant in question.
I have what I think is Mealy Blue Sage in another spot. The foliage is different, flowers similar. Plant is smaller, that could be my fault.
Mealy blue sage gets about 3' tall and doesn't have serrated leaf edges.
steph my Mealy Blue has narrow pointed leaves.
I thought the one in question as I remember had a swampy name. Whatever swampy means to me.
My mealy blue currently looks ill, like heat stroke.
My MB sage took a beating earlier in the spring when it was attacked by some kind of beetle. It's come back and doing better now, but doesn't look as lush as it has in previous years.
Well, it could be Indigo Spires then,
WCT(love your name and sense of humor...can I call you a coot if we have never met?)I have a Mystic Spires(dwarf) that has similar leaves. Nothing swampy though. How tall is it?
Drthor, I know some datura are only annual...maybe the colored and double ones. You have to save the seeds from year to year.
Bananna the plant is a little over three feet in this heat.
I acquired the name WildcatThicket from local history about the 1865-1871 Lee-Peacock feud. The History Channel had a 2 hour show about the Lee-Peacock feud. It was bloodier than the Hatfield-McCoy feud.
Wildcat Thicket was a strip of land in Fannin and Hunt Counties lying just east of "The corners". It was a solid mass of undergrowth--trees, briar brushes, thorn vines, and grass.
Wildcat Thicket had served as a bandit refuge during the Civil War. It's inhabitants included army deserts and draft evaders of both North and South.
I have a lot of trees, briar brushes, thorn vines, grass and lots of poison ivy. If farming would stop here the thicket would return. I have a few acres that has returned to thicket. The thicket constantly expands if the pasture areas are not mowed or fields not plowed.