New pretties in my garden

I finally remembered to make one of the tipsy pot. The bottom pot holds Dianthus, then there are white Petunias, a yellow daisy (untagged at the garden center), topped off with an Asparagus Fern..
That is a Hyssop to the left and Blanket Flower on the right.




Maudie and Claude (he finally decided to tell me his name a few days ago) have a beautiful view. Those are the hollyhocks that have been growing even thru the hot dry summer replacing their momma plants that bloomed in April and were dead by July. No buds on them yet but we do still have at least two months of growing temps yet to come.



This is a small hollyhock that started growing outside the flower bed last year (there are hundreds of those out in the yard) this one bloomed back in May and is blooming again.

 

Yep that's my windmill. Bought it about 5 years ago on sale at what used to be McFrugal's but is now Big Lots.
I painted the blades and the tale fin in a snowflake pattern since that is my alter ego. :-D



I am getting some bricks from Lisa this fall that I plan on building a wishing well with sometime early next spring.

 

I really like the tipsy pots Toni and Maudie and Claude look right at home underneath the bird bath. :-D To think that not long ago you were considering giving up gardening too!! Nature has a way of setting everything to rights doesn't she? Your garden is certainly a credit to you.

 

Yeah, back in the summer I just didn't see any reason to continue gardening if I was just going to have to watch everything die for most of the year.

Now El Nino is involved in our weather patterns again which means our winter will be milder but wetter than normal. I can handle a winter without real winter weather, afterall this is Texas and we don't always get real winter weather. If this winter is wetter, then maybe the lakes will fill up which means we will not be put on severe rationing like we will be next spring without rain this winter. Most of the lakes (which supply the cities with water) are anywhere from 10 feet to 20 feet below normal.

Anyway, the somewhat cooler weather has really been great to renew my desire to garden. I have been burning incense outside every day while I am out there to thank Mother Nature for the nice weather.

 

Your garden amazes me Toni. I can't get over how clever the tipsy pot idea is from first seeing here a few months back. So simple, so effective. You have done a fine job with yours.

Tell me, are the gnomes behaving themselves?

 

Thanks everyone. I am normally the only one who sees my garden, I have really been glad to find the stew to show my pictures to.

I have moved several plants and removed some. More to move this winter. So the pictures in one of my blog entries that Randy took from the roof show a garden that is pretty different from now. Since we are getting rain the ground should be soft enough to start expanding the garden this week.

I believe the gnomes are pretty much behaving themselves, Frank. I don't see signs of havoc being reeked out there. Sometimes I do think they are so fond of the hollyhocks they want them everywhere and take the fallen seeds and run around the yard planting them...those things are coming up in a few places where I know the momma plants have never been.