Dang Randy, in these dog days of summer it's pretty diffucult to show you anything worth a heck in my garden or yard right now. Almost everything I have is pretty much burnt up or trying to survive this monthlong heatwave and drought. I'm sure you know the feeling. Next spring will be a different story though so you'll have to catch me again then. Here's a few pics of the only stuff worth showing you.
I have this one plant we call "Angel Trumpet" (brugmansia). It has a huge bloom and right now it's throwing out its third big batch of flowers. The flowers are trumpet shaped and about the size of my hand. They smell like baby powder. The whole plant is toxic and some people have been dumb enough to take their chance at ingesting it to try to get high off it. It causes hallucinations and then sometimes death. I wouldn't recommend it.
It's too bad the flowers hang downwards. This is a view looking upwards into it.
And here's a pretty good view with my hand in it so you can tell how big they are!
I have a brick wall with nothing on it so I trained a pyracantha to grow on it. Some call it fire bush because it's full of thorns that will light you up and it has red berries in the fall and winter. When the berries ripen, the birds come and eat them off. In spring it blooms with small white flowers.
Wider angle view of the pyracantha. That's a weeping variety of Japanese Maple in front of it. That thing is beautiful in the spring when it's completely red and burgundy with new growth.
You have any aloe? I've got a bunch of it but I've really taken a liking to this one specimen in this pot.
Here at the beach we don't have a whole lot of rocks. I bought about 6 tons of it this past spring and put in some paths around the house with it. I did it all myself and it wore me out!
I think this stuff is called coleus? It likes the shade. I've got it tucked in behind a large oak-leaf hydrangea. You can barely see a few leaves of the hydrangea at bottom left.
I can't remember the name of this plant but the new growth is just so prehistoric looking when it's starting to come out. Check this out.
This is wild looking! Almost looks like plastic!
That's just one corner of the back yard. But any more and I'll get thrashed for not moving this to the Home and Garden forum! Your turn, whatchagot?
