New additions

 Finally, photos of our new additions from Boerne's plant sale earlier this month. Now I've gotta make gardens labels for everybody!

 Have Spade Will Travel

Blue-eyed grass (Sisyrinchium sp.)
(But our native two flourish in the Meadow.)

Coralbean (Erythrina herbacea)

Salvia 'Otahal'

Gray shrub sage (Salvia chamaedryoides)

 Galeana red sage (Salvia darcyi)

Flor Hermosa Nursery

Blue curls (Phacelia congesta)

Native Plant Society of Texas, Boerne chapter

 Cowpen daisy (Verbesina encelioides)

 photo coming

Maximilan sunflower (Helianthus maximiliani)

Fragrant mistflower (Chromolaena odorata)

Flame acanthus (Anisacanthus quadrifidus var. wrightii)

Nature's Herb Farm

Texas betony (Stachys coccinea)  (3)

Our mama screech owl's film debut

April 2011 in our Wildscape

My birthday addition

Black dalea Dalea frutescens

My birthday was last Tuesday (Fifty-Again), and I'm just now posting my birthday addition. We bought it from Blanco Gardens. I'd been wanting one. Here's hoping it sticks around!

Vegetable garden spring 2011

 This post is for us. I like to photograph what we plant every spring. Sure beats keeping notes!

 

Garden in our side yard.

'Supersweet 100' cherry tomato

Yellow plum tomato

'Celebrity' tomato

Zuchinni (also two yellow squash started from seed)

Green bell pepper

We decided to stick in some vegetables rows in our back yard.

Yellow plum tomato

'Supersweet 100' tomato

'Red Beauty' pepper

Yellow squash (started from seed)

'Maroon' Aggie carrots (started from seed)

Beans along fence (started from seed)

First chimney swift!!

Yes, I was outside awhile ago, gardening, when I heard a familiar twitter! I looked up and spotted our first chimney swift of the season! Naturally, I ran inside and sent an alert to Paul and Georgean Kyle with ChimneySwifts.org. They monitor spring sightings on their Website. 

Welcome back, guys!

Native plant sale!

Today was the annual native plant sale in Boerne, hosted by the Boerne Chapter of the Native Plant Society of Texas. I'd been looking forward to it for WEEKS. My mother went along, too. So many, many plants! It was heavenly! Needless to say, James and I came home with lots of new additions, like blue-eyed grass, coralbean, bluecurls and a new variety of salvia. Plus more Texas betony and fragrant mistflower. I'll properly identify everybody later.

We got to see our friend, Skip Kphart, a NPSOT member. He was busy, manning the butterfly demonstration garden. He even had a live monarch caterpillar, chomping on a Texas milkweed. Too cool! Even my mother was impressed! I also made a new friend, Veronica Hawk, who's also a NPSOT member. I really want to join the society, but I just haven't yet.

I can't wait until next year! In the meantime, the Wildflower Center in Austin will host a native plant sale next weekend. Check it out!