Remember when we had that big turnout to help start the butterfly garden.
I thought you worker bees would like to see what's growing...or not.
The Texas Sage is very happy and starting to bloom.
The Texas Sage is very happy and starting to bloom. Vinca, also called Periwinkle, is also hanging in there.
Notice the water system?
Ahh...the secret to plant immortality here in the parched regions.
Ahh...the secret to plant immortality here in the parched regions. No rain. Nada. 100 degrees, hot blowing wind, and not a drop of rain.
So Activities has bought us a watering system. Yea! 
Ron & Gloria & Jim and me (me, despite suffering from Wine Flu, mind you),
Ron & Gloria & Jim and me (me, despite suffering from Wine Flu, mind you), spent several hours a few days ago installing this system.
It's on a timer!
It's a God-send!
We love it!
Black tubing snakes through the garden delivering life saving liquid to the flowers.
Black tubing snakes through the garden delivering life saving liquid to the flowers.Beautiful!!!!
We have a slight...did I tell you I am prone to exaggeration?...slight grass problem.
The wildflowers are coming up, but the grass thinks it's in a race, and it is winning.
I have sprayed about half the area with Round-Up and will do more as soon as the winds die down....maybe by next February.
Now lest you envision a complete garden let me bring you back down to earth.
Kinda sad, still.
And nobody alerted the butterflies.
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Stephen & Charlotte's house, #102, is no more.
Just an empty lot is all that is left.
I am very curious as to how Karen & Jay will develop it for their new home.
It may be hot, hotter, hottest...with nary a drop of rain recently or in the near or far future...but the bougies love it! Put on your sunglasses and take a gander at my full blooming Bougainvilleas!
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It may be hot, hotter, hottest...with nary a drop of rain recently or in the near or far future...but the bougies love it! Put on your sunglasses and take a gander at my full blooming Bougainvilleas!************
And the front gate...
It's coming along. As soon as it is complete I'll take some pics.
The security system is being overhauled.
A new, temporary gate code is in effect.
Gate clickers may not work.
Get the new code from Karen.
3 comments:
grass is not a problem in flower beds if you use grass-b-gone. it kills only the grass,not broadleaf plants. its not hard to find. sure beats digging out the grass,and kills grass in a few days
It's kinda ironic. Here we are spraying grass killer everywhere around the shrubs and flowers, while just a few yards away Ron & Gloria are coaxing each blade of transplanted grass back to health. Location, location, location!
bermuda grass is a weed, a very bad weed in raised beds or any where you want to grow veggies. no grass be gone can be used in veggies
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