On the First day of Christmas, my true love sent to me..
One succulent wreath on the garden gate:
closer:
On the Second day of Christmas my true love sent to me...
Two ornament adorned agaves:
I don't have any conifers in my central Texas garden, so agaves get decorated instead. Closer:
On the Third day of Christmas my true love sent to me...
3 pink geranium blooms. The geraniums are looking fabulous now that the weather is cool:
On the Fourth day of Christmas my true love sent to me...
4 new limestone blocks under my garden gate. I replaced the mud and clay with some natural limestone blocks and gravel:
On the Fifth day of Christmas my true love sent to me...
5 petals on the globemallow bloom. The globemallow is still blooming and looking wonderful!:
On the Sixth day of Christmas my true love sent to me...
6 lemon blossoms. The Meyer lemon is blooming crazy right now! The outside entryway to the house is thick with the scent of citrus blossoms. Yummmm. :)
On the Seventh day of Christmas my true love sent to me...
7 narcissus pushing through the earth. The narcissus are popping up all around the garden:
On the Eighth day of Christmas my true love sent to me...
8 blackfoot daisies. These are still blooming even though we had a freeze last week:
On the Ninth day of Christmas my true love sent to me...
9 pots of succulents snuggled in the greenhouse. With a heating lamp to keep them warm and toasty:
On the Tenth day of Christmas my true love sent to me...
10 sets of cynthia tulips. I planted these within the new limestone retaining wall flower bed I built last week. Come spring, there should be a trail of yellow and red striped tulips blooming here:
On the Eleventh day of Christmas my true love sent to me...
11 icicles on the fountain during the first freeze on Dec. 7th. Right on time:
On the Twelfth day of Christmas my true love sent to me...
12 drops of rain on the xmas cactus. It has been raining lightly all week! Swoot! After the hottest summer ever recorded in any state in the history of the US, this rain is The. Best. Christmas present. Ever.:
Happy Holidays Everyone!!
9 comments:
love the blog! One quick comment: that's a geranium, not a begonia :)
LOL! You are so right. I always get those two names confused. :P I fixed it.
Wonderful, really great!
I love the ornaments on the Agave!
Very creative post.
Happy GBBD!
That was lots of fun! And the agave - fantastic! I have some babies in my garden, and when they get big - if they do in our coastal clime - I'm going to do the same thing! Thanks!
Hahaha, do you know i even tried to sing it! But i love the style on the agave. Here they normally put egg shells on those tips, but not as decor but so it wont be dangerous. BTW, why is your title like that 'the sun is killing me'?
LOVE this post!
Happy Holidays!
I named my blog 'the sun is killing me' because I am originally from the pacific northwest where the climate was much more temperate and after I moved down here to Austin, Tx, everytime I go outside the sun is so hot and intense, I feel like it is killing me! I literally cannot go outside for more that 15 minutes without getting sunburned to a crisp, so lots of cover-ups and giant floppy hats for me. :)
OMG...LOVE the ornaments on the Agaves...very Seussian!
aloha,
love your cactus xmas tree, very imaginative.
thanks for sharing
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