When the storm did hit - almost NO wind! Crazy I tell you. We did get torrential rains and hail however. See, that is how it works - take the time to prepare and nothing bad happens - don't lift a finger, and your house has its roof torn off. I guess the winds just skirted us - what a break! Later on overnight and into the morning we did get some pretty crazy winds and more torrential rains, though nothing like some parts of Austin that had old oak trees torn in half and thrown about. I saw some of that damage on my way into work this morning. I always feel bad for the trees - must be that Northwest tree-hugger in me.
Anyway...on to the blooms!
Salvia guaranitica - Black and Blue:
Buddleia Black Knight:
Dwarf Yellow Canna:
Purple Coneflower:
Coreopsis and Passionflower:
Yellow Cosmos:
Cuphea Ignea and Mexican Petunia:
Desert Willow:
A collection of hummingbird favorites:
Rock Rose:
Nasturtium:
Blackfoot daisy and Pink Skullcap:
Mexican Oregano:
Blue Mistflower and Lantana:
Moonbeam Yarrow:
And here is my Fuchsia 'Angels Earrings Snowfire' still blooming and undaunted by the heat and humidity. I am starting to really love this fuchsia!:
Great blooms! Looks like they survived the storm without damage. That must have been a frightening experience anticipating a possible tornado.
ReplyDeleteI really like your xeriscape bed with the cactus, skullcap, and blackfoot daisies. I keep intending to do something like that, and it keeps morphing into straight-up cottage garden.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you escaped the worst of last night's crazy weather!
I've read several accounts of that storm and it sounds like a whopper. It is true what you say about preparation and of course, storm warnings should be taken seriously.
ReplyDeleteI love the flowers you've chosen for your garden, and like Lori, find the xeriscape interesting, as that is something we wouldn't find around here.
Thanks for joining in for bloom day.
Carol, May Dreams Gardens
They all look great and your pink scullcap is particularly cute with the rocks and blackfoot daisy. Happy you made it through the crazy storm unscathed!
ReplyDeleteThe winds hit us pretty hard--horizontally from the north. The large trees in my neighborhood are devastated. One uprooted completely and fell on a neighbor's house. Another neighbor woke up to find her car under a limb. And my tree dropped two limbs on the power lines knocking out power on my street for 7 hours.
ReplyDeleteStill the flower bloom in spite of it all. I covet your desert willow. I must own the only desert willow in Austin that doesn't bloom. The Buddleia is also beautiful.
i like your site, great info. may be a little of topic, but we got hit by the storm as well, we have several huge oaks, that were stripped bare, most of the leaves gone. i was wondering if you knew if thay will come back this late in the year?, will they be ok?
ReplyDeleteI love that yellow canna. What a great color.
ReplyDeleteStorm didn't seem that bad for us, maybe I'm just a sound sleeper!
chey,
ReplyDeleteIt was kinda scary. We were ready to run and hide in the center hall closet, that is for sure!
lori,
ReplyDeleteThanks, that garden is on the downslope of the front yard and any plants that I put there have to be extra tough and those guys fit the bill!
carol,
ReplyDeleteThanks, the xeriscaping is fun and conserves water.
And thank you, for coming up with bloom day in the first place!
iris,
ReplyDeleteThanks, I am glad we came out unscathed too. I only lost one medium sized branch off my oak tree.
mss,
ReplyDeleteI am so sorry to hear about your neighborhood - I saw the damage from the freeway - all the trees uprooted and broken in half. It was so sad to see. Old, large trees are something to be treasured. It always hurts to lose them.
Peter,
ReplyDeleteI have no idea if the trees will get leaves back this year (poor trees!)- probably not. I would think they would recover next year though, if the tree itself is intact.
bonnie,
ReplyDeleteThe storm was so hit and miss - some areas were torn to shreds and others looked pretty much untouched. Nature is weird that way.