I have started adding photos from around the garden to a new album in Picasa, and will be adding to the album every week until the season ends. To see a week-by-week time-lapse photo album, see my public photo album on Facebook.
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2011: The year in backyard gardening
Location: Rosenberg, Texas |
On Sunday, a swarm of bees descended upon a small oak tree in our backyard.
I’ve never seen anything like this before.
Weighing down the oak tree branch
A close up shot
From another angle
These photos were taken from indoors, thanks to my camera’s 10X zoom. Whew.
Photos from the nineteenth week in the garden are up, spanning July 19-24, and have been tagged “Week Nineteen” in my Gardening 2010, Part Three album in my Picasa Web Albums. To see the original bed photos — in a slideshow from week to week — visit my Gardening 2010 photo album on Facebook.
This week, I captured a lot of wildlife in the backyard.
This, I believe, is the baby dove who was born in our backyard oak tree.
Week Nineteen
A moth hangs out on the carefree beauty rose
A Hungarian hot wax pepper plant given to me by Kim's Uncle Bennie
There's a ton of adolescent frogs back there, like this guy, who have grown up in the backyard. They hate it when I mow the lawn.
Photos from the eighteenth week in the garden are up, spanning July 12-18, and have been tagged “Week Eighteen” in my Gardening 2010, Part Three album in my Picasa Web Albums. To see the original bed photos — in a slideshow from week to week — visit my Gardening 2010 photo album on Facebook.
Three Top Gun tomatoes I picked. The rain made 'em ugly.
The psyche mix cosmos
The black-eyed susans
There were three about this size.
Purple coneflowers
Week Eighteen
Photos from the seventeenth week in the garden are up, spanning July 7-11, and have been tagged “Week Seventeen” in my Gardening 2010, Part Three album in my Picasa Web Albums. To see the original bed photos — in a slideshow from week to week — visit my Gardening 2010 photo album on Facebook.
The Indian Princess hibiscus finally bloomed! The wait was well worth it!
A row of all four hibiscus, in bloom.
Pickling cucumber. Uber alles.
This bachelor button didn't recover after the torrential downpour we received last week.
A purple periwinkle, that must have reseeded itself from last year.
The original bed
This blanket flower — the only one of which that has thrived this well, perhaps it's the porch? — is about to bloom.
Photos from the sixteenth week in the garden are up, spanning June 27-July 6, and have been tagged “Week Sixteen” in my Gardening 2010, Part Three album in my Picasa Web Albums. To see the original bed photos — in a slideshow from week to week — visit my Gardening 2010 photo album on Facebook.
A lot of rain this week, especially after a category 2 hurricane hit Mexico. Here's some soggy cosmos.
The rain brought the critters, too. I found several of these catapillars, and they ate most of the surving tomato plant Kim's uncle gave us.
Here's a shot of the original bed. A lot of the taller cosmos and zinnia have fallen, and the zinnia are now crowding out the portulaca.
A handful of bachelor buttons bloomed right after all of the storms.
This is the only Monarda ‘Bergamo’ that has made it to maturity to flower. All of the others I transplanted, as seedlings, into the bed, but they didn't make it. There were only a few that got big enough to transplant. Won't be buying this again.
The homegrown coleus from seed is doing very well in various pots on the porch.
These black-eyed susans — the only thing still left from last year's father's day gift from Kim and Corina — are going wild.
Photos from the fifteenth week in the garden are up, spanning June 20-26, and have been tagged "Week Fifteen" in my Gardening 2010, Part Three album in my Picasa Web Albums. To see the original bed photos — in a slideshow from week to week — visit my Gardening 2010 photo album on Facebook.
The seminole hibiscus bloomed again. That's the second time, since we picked it and the indian princess up at the hibiscus show in Pasadena. The Indian Princess still hasn't bloomed yet, its blooms keep falling off.
A blue bachelor button has bloomed.
Week fifteen in the original bed. Like Fats Waller said, it's Loafin' Time.
Photos from the fourteenth week in the garden are up, spanning June 13-19, and have been tagged "Week Fourteen" in my Gardening 2010, Part Three album in my Picasa Web Albums. To see the original bed photos — in a slideshow from week to week — visit my Gardening 2010 photo album on Facebook.
Harvested two beef maestro tomatoes and more eggplant.
It's time to start letting go of the snapdragons.
The first bachelor button has bloomed, and it is pink. Kanye West would be proud.
Week fourteen in the original bed.
Photos from the thirteenth week in the garden are up, spanning June 6-12, and have been tagged "Week Thirteen" in my Gardening 2010, Part Three album in my Picasa Web Albums. To see the original bed photos — in a slideshow from week to week — visit my Gardening 2010 photo album on Facebook.
It was a good week for the carefree beauty rose.
On Tuesday of this week, the sunflower in the corner was blooming loud and proud.
But on Wednesday, a big wind storm blew through and blew it down, and caused a lot of damage to the overgrown zinnias and cosmos.
Here's the original bed, week thirteen.
I’m pretty busy these days, which is a good thing, so this post is about a week late – and I won’t be able to post regularly until I’m finished with a freelance project I’m working on. Hopefully, I’ll be back to posting regularly again soon.
When I started blogging again this spring, I tried my best to keep posting every workday every week, and occasionally I’d miss a day here or there but I think it’s OK to cease the daily publishing for now, considering I have three paying jobs at the moment. But that’s enough bragging.
Photos from the twelfth week in the garden are up, spanning May 30-June 5, and have been tagged "Week Twelve" in my Gardening 2010, Part Two album in my Picasa Web Albums. To see the original bed photos — in a slideshow from week to week — visit my Gardening 2010 photo album on Facebook.
The Carefree Beauty rose.
The zinnias are attracting all sorts of wildlife.
Some visitors crawl, and some fly.
The red and white verbena haven't looked better.
Kim's red roses have bloomed again.
The original bed, week twelve.