Unseasonably warm days in the garden have some plants like this daisy thinking that it’s already spring.
And I can see why.
The forecast for today is sunny and 70 — it doesn’t get much better than that.
Between the weather and the daisy, it’s enough to make a gardener smile.
What has you smiling today?
As temperatures drop and it begins to look a little like fall here in Central Texas, new things are blooming in the garden.
There are the traditional plants, like these beautiful mums.
They disappear during the scorching hot summer, but puff up and explode with flowers when it starts to get chilly outside.
And there are the Mexican Mint Marigolds with their beautiful yellow blooms and the Fall Asters that I wrote about two posts ago, all reliable fall bloomers.
There was beautiful light when I went out with the camera this morning.
The oak in the front yard was aglow like a flaming tree with its golden leaves in the rising sunlight. We have so little fall color here because it’s just not cold enough, so we really appreciate it when we see it!
But I was surprised to find these Shasta Daisies in the cutting garden — blooming for the second time this year.
And the roses are loving this cool weather — especially my Katy Road or Carefree Beauty rose.
Another sign of fall — dead things! I’d better get out there and remove all these seeds from this dead morning glory vine or I won’t have any cutting flowers at all in the spring as they will be choked out by vine-y groundcover!
And these precious little Marigolds came from seeds and volunteers in the vegetable garden, where I plant them to keep bad bugs off the tomatoes. I simply moved them to the cutting garden where they are very happy.
Any fall surprises in your garden today?
We had a mixed bag of weather today – humid and damp and misty this morning, then that broke and the sun came out and then a cold front blew in and blew right back out again, leaving sunshine and warmth for the rest of the afternoon. As I was cleaning up the back patio and pruning some, I was struck by how many yellows I have in my garden. So I thought I’d take you on a tip-toe through the yellows today. This is a Gerbera daisy left from last year’s basket of mixed color.
Mickaela Euonymus
Daffodils – -again!
This is a Duranta stem with some yellow berries on it — hard to see because it’s in the garage still until we pass the early March last possible freeze point. I’m not moving that baby twice — she’s heavy.
Here are some flowers in my kitchen today.
Euryops Daisy
Primrose Jasmine
Variegated shell ginger.
Leatherleaf Mahonia.
Compact Daisies.Thought this might be a little ray sunshine for those of you who are still deep in the throes of winter.
Enjoy.