Every year this salvia impresses me more and more. I remember the spring after I first planted it. It was just a bare stick with no life at all until just when I was about to give up on it, almost in summer, it sprang to life with very long vermillion blossoms. […]
This is another plant from the southwest that has recently become very popular. The proper name is Tecoma stans, Another name is yellow bells. It is winter hardy in zone 8 and can make a shrub up to 5 or 6 feet.
Mine is about a year old and is in […]
I got several comments about what I had done to the turk’s cap photo. I played around with it using the photo editing software I have, which is Paint Shop Pro. I am less talented using photo editing software than I am with the camera, which is to say that I know practically nothing. […]
Turk’s cap or manzanilla is another member of the hibiscus or okra family. The funny thing about it is that the flowers never open. It blooms almost all the time in late summer and early fall. It’s a good plant for shady areas. It will grow in the sun but won’t […]
You may have read that Texas congressional districts were redrawn for this election in an unusual move that tended to favor Republicans. As it happens the district I live in now pits two incumbents against one another - Pete Sessions and Martin Frost. Neither one of them was the congressman for this […]
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