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| My hubby gave this to me today as an early Christmas present. This is Cinco De Mayo. It's a floribunda that is a chocolate or rust red with a hint of lavender and is suppose to smell really good. I planted it over by the yellow Graham Thomas English rose. |
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| The front yard got pretty neglected during our extreme drought, so now that it has been cooler, I've been in the mood to try and make a flower bed around the rocks that previously had pampas grass growing around them. I started with this large clump of Mystic Spires salvia. The heat didn't bother this plant. |
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| I transplanted a few of the zinnia's that were a pretty pinkish red and also purple. I'm hoping that they will go to seed and come back next summer the same color. |
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| In this bed I also transplanted some lambs ear, coneflowers, alyssum, Frankly Scarlet daylily, which is a maroon red and 3 different iris. There is a shady spot along the underside of the rock, here I transplanted some pink flowered wood sorrel/oxalis. |
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| I just transplanted, so everything looks a little wilted. |
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| I transplanted another kind of salvia (Blue Bedder) in front of this red knockout. |
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| This is the crepe myrtle that I tried to cut down last spring, but it came back with a vengeance and looked beautiful this past summer. Now it has gorgeous reddish golden leaves. |
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| Zinnia patch that came back from seed from the summer ones. |
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| I transplanted this rose at the beginning of summer. It struggled along and now has it's first bloom. It is one that was here when we bought the house and I didn't like where the previous owner had it planted. I think it might be a John F Kennedy rose. |
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| A sunflower that has come back from seed. |
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| Newly planted shrub bought for me by my sister as a gift. It's a dwarf holly. I love the berries on it. |
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| Quilt I'm making for my granddaughter. Lots of flower fabric. I call it my flower garden bow-tie quilt. |
