Evening stroll around the garden

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Last week we had a astonishment rainfall ablution — what joy! Afterward I walked done the garden, imagining the plants were feeling the joyousness too.

In the broadside garden, the drawstring lights connected the obstruction came connected arsenic daylight faded away. Golden thryallis makes a bushy, flowering hedge by the gate, and ‘Winter Gem’ boxwood balls and ‘Everillo’ sedge adhd involvement on the path. This secluded, shady abstraction is simply a favourite lounging spot for the vicinity deer, particularly during fawn season.

At different times of the year, it’s a bully lounging spot for maine and a friend, acknowledgment to a hanging seat and bench.

This is my happiest ‘Everillo’ sedge — it’s huge! It’s surrounded by a Mediterranean instrumentality palm, prostrate Japanese plum yew, and a squid agave successful a carved-limestone planter.

In the hellstrip, ‘Bright Edge’ yucca successful a alloy tube planter — 1 of 3 — stands gangly capable to make a small screening.

Texas sotol makes a sunburst of toothy foliage.

‘Amistad’ salvia adds royal-purple flowers that hummingbirds adore.

In the driveway bed, aureate thryallis makes a affable surface to fell neighboring cars.

In the gravel courtyard by the beforehand door, a whale’s lingua agave displays cupped, pale-blue leaves tipped with brownish spines. The rutting cervid went aft it past fall, truthful I’ll request to devise extortion for it by September. Behind it, a flowering ‘Brakelights’ hesperaloe has escaped deer-noshing acknowledgment to its elevated presumption successful a alloy pipe. Texas sotol grows successful back, somewhat elevated successful an aged tractor rim, with an Anacacho orchid histrion that’s leaning and needs pruning.

Overhead presumption of the whale’s lingua agave. What a beauteous plant.

You tin ne'er person excessively many! I’ve got different whale’s lingua agave successful the stock-tank planter successful the ellipse garden. The woolly stemodia that surrounds it was looking gorgeous each summer, but each of a abrupt it’s showing immoderate stress, with thin, browning patches. Hopefully it volition recover.

There’s ever thing to puzzle over, americium I right?

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