GBBD June 2015

What's blooming for June 2015?  More than enough for a Garden Blogger's Bloom Day post so let's get started with a tour of the circle garden.

Wildflower Wednesday June 2013

It's Wildflower Wednesday and June 2013 brings an update on volunteer wildflowers seeding in the buffalo grass lawn.  The fourth Wednesday of each month bloggers celebrate wildflowers in their gardens by joining Gail at Clay and Limestone for Wildflower Wednesday. 

More flowers are finding their way into the wildflower patch and since I'm pretty sure the only ones I seeded were the Gaillardia pulchella or Indian Blanket flowers it seems the others have simply followed their friends to the party.  Due to a somewhat rainy and cool spring the purple Prairie Verbena is still blooming.  This combination of the yellow-orange and purple flowers is so pretty.

Gardens on Tour in Austin: Westridge Drive

This is the second in my five part series of posts on the Gardens on Tour for the Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center in Austin this past Saturday.  I joined Austin bloggers Pam Penick of Digging, Catherine Jones of The Whimsical Gardener, and David Cristiani of The Desert Edge from Albuquerque for a fun-filled day of touring.  You can see the first garden on the tour, Kathy Cove, in my previous post.

The second garden we toured was Westridge Drive.
 

Neighborhood wildflowers for National Wildflower Week

May 4-12, 2013 is National Wildflower Week sponsored by The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in Austin, Texas.

I'm posting photos of wildflowers growing in a field near my house.  The field is commercial property and will be developed eventually.  I enjoy walking there and often collect seeds from plants to add to my garden.  The area below is a small arroyo which feeds the creek along our backyard.
 

Wildflower Wednesday: April Wildflowers

This week I'm joining Gail at Clay and Limestone for Wildflower Wednesday.  Wildflower Wednesday is a special opportunity to track the progress of the wildflowers I am establishing in my yard.

It's amazing what happens when you put out the welcome mat for native plants and flowers.  For example, these Indian Blanket flowers (Gaillardia pulchella) or Firewheel surprised me by blooming this week.