prairie point

Working outside this morning I did not believe the weather forecasts. It was warm and not a cloud in the sky. I went inside for a lunch break around one and when I came back outside things had changed! The wind had picked up and temperatures have been dropping ever since.

I transplanted a Mexican mint marigold and a lantana and a few other things. Then I trimmed up the rosemary that keeps encroaching on our driveway. I came inside smelling good for a change, and I brought in a few of the bigger rosemary boughs to make the house smell better too.

While I was outside I noticed the Texas betony was still blooming. It is a sprawling plant related to lambsear and has the same soft fuzzy feel to the leaves but the leaves are small and not as grey. Also they do not have a pleasant smell. The Latin name is Stachys coccinea. Now that it is finally cooling off this is probably the last bloom until spring.