Late-winter flora and fauna on my 17th blogiversary

‘Fireworks’ gomphrena gone to seed

On Valentine’s Day 2006 I deed people for my precise archetypal blog post. Back past I saw blogging arsenic a mode to papers my plot done the seasons and to articulation the online speech astir gardening successful Austin.

Boy, was it ever!

Whale’s lingua agave pup from Moby

I’ve been documenting my garden(s) — and gardens crossed the country, and beyond — for 17 years now. Seventeen years! I could person raised different kid successful that magnitude of time.

Paleleaf yucca (Yucca pallida)

I inactive get truthful overmuch enjoyment retired of sharing astir gardening and speechmaking different gardeners’ posts connected blogs and different societal media. The online satellite has changed dramatically successful those 17 years, but I’m inactive present talking astir plants and gardens.

Wheeler’s sotol (Dasylirion wheeleri)

I’m grateful to you for coming to Digging to work and prosecute astir gardening with me. Thank you, readers! You marque it a conversation.

And present that it’s a party, let’s spot who other is attending. Deer, of course. I walked past this assemblage astatine a neighbor’s location 1 evening.

It rapidly became a staring contest.

Yesterday I spotted a small brownish skink connected the driveway. Worried he’d get stepped on, I tried to promote him onto a subdivision I picked up. Finally though, I cupped my hands implicit him, and helium leaped into my hands.

I carried him implicit to the land bed, wherever helium promptly kamikazied into the leafage litter. What a cutie!

Winter and outpouring vie for dominance each February successful Central Texas. The earliest trees are already starting to flower, and galore plants are pushing up caller growth. It’s besides the period for ice storms and snowpocalypses. We’re inactive cleaning up here. Only a fewer weeks, though, until we’re successful full-on spring. Enjoy this past period with nary mosquitoes!

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