Ever since we moved into our house, Paul has envisioned a conservatory off the back porch area. This year, we came closer to that vision when Paul invented a temporary room to store our plants this winter instead of the garage. Now, I just love to go out to see my plants in bloom after [...]
The Dallas Morning News reports 100 plus degrees through Sunday. While most everything else is rather crispy around the edges, the “Pride of Barbados” is one of our tropical flowers that is holding its own.
This beauty will not stop blooming, it is as lovely as the first day of spring. It continues to produce the most exquisite blooms ever. This November morning, I got to see it for myself. What a lovely day I had.
This year has to be our best garden yet !! Sometimes, I cannot wait to come home from work so I can walk through the yard and enjoy all the blooms. My favorite addition this year was the elephant ears. What a majestic addition to our front shade garden. Each leaf is a work of [...]
Although the yard held up well during the 100 degree heat, you can definitely see a difference now that the temperature has dropped below three digits and we got some much needed rain. What a lovely time of year.
This has been a very hot summer. Tomorrow it will be September 1st and it is still in the 90’s. Our Lord Baltimore Hibiscus was beautiful this year. It bloomed over and over again with huge blooms of red color making our yard a tropical paradise. It was fun to float around in the pool, [...]
Last year we planted our bird of paradise by the mailbox. We hoped that it would survive our coldest winter ever and it has certainly surprised us with a flurry of repeat blooms this summer. It is hard to believe that such a delicate leaf and beautiful tropical flower can withstand freezing temperatures but we [...]
We are fortunate to live in a city where there are over 230 sunny days a year and an average temperature of 43 degrees in January. No wonder everyone was freaking out this week when we dipped down to 17.
For us, the biggest concern was our Sago Palms. Although more mature plants at this stage [...]
This rose produces a beautiful array of blooms every year and never fails me, just like my friendship with my two special friends Carey and Wendy. This weekend we had a wonderful time on a girls trip to McKinney, TX, great shops, great food, lots of laughter and wonderful memories. [...]
