Coming in through the south gate.
Scenes form the Backyard Native Plant Habitat.
The new curved bed.
Following the flowers, lots of Flame Acanthus.
Phlox carolina,Turk's cap and Frostweed.
More of the same flowers.
The southeast corner. Native plants can be lush and beautiful.
absolutely beautiful
awesome. makes you want a butler to serve you tea as you relax in a hammock... wearing your summer whites...
simply gorgeous!
Sooo lovely... :) I'd love to pull up my favorite garden chair with some tea and a good book....simply breathtaking, Josephine...and so peaceful looking.. :)
Melanie
Very, very pretty, frostweed. Thanks for sharing with us. Your natives do inspire others to want to plant more of them.
Thank you everyone, we feel very blessed, I love native plants so much!!!
I hope many others will appreciate them and love them, they are so rewarding.
It is looking good no matter what time of year I see your place I just cannot get over how lush and full everything is... - reminds me my ox blood lilies from you are blooming too, thank you sooo much they are stunning.
BEAUTIFUL! You've got to love Flame Acanthus, especially with the heat and drought we've had recently. I hardly ever water mine, and it still blooms like crazy. Josephine, your flowerbeds are incredible. Thanks for sharing.
Carla
fabulous!!!!
very pretty Josephine. =)
Lovely!
Josephine, your yard is a park! Beautiful.
Thank you, everyday I thank God for all the wonderful gifts He has bestowed upon me.
I am glad you guys are enjoying it too.
Last Sunday, it was overcast but bright, and the light was just right for pictures.
Josephine.
Very nice yard. You do good things. Ted
What are the tall plants with red flowers in the first shot? LOVE those! How long is the bloom time?
Those are Turk's cap, Malvaviscus drummondii, they start blooming in June and keep blooming till frost, and the humminbirds love them. They are perennial and very easy to grow.
Thanks!
And Frostweed attracts a great number of different skippers and moths too!
Your yard looks great. I so want mine to get that way one day. I've been slowly over the last 5 years buying plants (one or two at a time as money allows) so these two RU's coming up are gonna increase my plants probably by a fourth. *giggle I have two frostweed, one beautyberry, 4 turkscap, 5 lambs ear, 2 red yucca, 1 lemon grass, 3 lavenders, 2 chocolate flower (that have spread), one maximillian sunflower (that has spread), one blue mist (that is finally blomming), 2 different roses, 6 lantana plants, etc. and a partrige in a pear tree! *giggle
Actually considering the size of my land I'm doing pretty good. I had to spend most of my money on hardscape before recently so that I could actually KEEP the plants from turning into the neighbors plants instead of MY plants. I have gotten some interesting volunteers come up and now that it has rained, I'm seeing more green than I have seen in a little while.
Renatelynne--I would like some seeds of that chocolate daisy too. Isn't it a native? If its the one I'm thinking of it is....where's my journal with all the botanical names when I need it? lol
yes I beleive it is native. I'm going to be gathering seed tomorrow since at least 1/2 of the plants have put out seed by now.
It's this one right?
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/1605/index.html
Sorry Josephine! But I know you would approve of swapping native seeds on your thread, right? =) (She slinks back from the monitor--hoping nothing is thrown at her--lol)
DJ
of course... if you look... I'm the last one making a comment on that page.
Josephine, is flame acanthus prone to breaking or is it the deer? I am constantly finding broken branches, but with the cypress mulch, there are no tracks. The deer do graze in the front yard every night and might be reaching through the bush for the grass beneath it. I'm working on tidying up the island bed, but it has been a long hot summer as everyone knows.
WOW Super Fine! I have started making more new beds for butterflies and hummers. Even though my yard is full of both of them I want to supply more habitats for them to use.
Please Debbie and Nada swap way, it makes me very happy to see people excited
about native plants.
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Pat, the Flame acanthus does tend to be brittle on the mature wood, but usually it doesnt brake by itself.
Frostweed, your garden is delightful and very inviting.
Thanks for sharing your photos.
The culprit breaking my poor flame acanthus presented himself this morning. It's our Manx cat, lying at the base and springing straight up after hummingbirds. He's built like a cement block. I cleared trash grass yesterday around the base, and he's lying there in plain sight this morning. He was also the one flattening my big zinnias a couple of years ago for the same reason. Should have known! I'll make a wire cage for the base of the shrub today and hopefully stop the damage and protect the hummers.
Pat, I know the hummers have been thick as theives down here for the last month. Gotta love those pets!
Wow! what a cute story, our cat doesn't go after the hummers, too fast for her, but she does catch an occasional Dove here and there, they stay on the ground too long sometimes.
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