White Althea, old kind

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Kin to the Rock Rose

We saved this agave from the trash truck!

Bitter lemons, Bad thorns

Not a crinum

Pale Pink:)

Name Unknown, but hard to come by

Spider Lily, can't spell the real name :(

Still wet from the rain

These crinum were given to us by a man named Mr. Wilson, who later did
all the wiring for our house, workshop and studio. He by the way, did
fantastic work! Thanks Mr. Wilson!

We were digging bulbs from an abandoned home site just off of the road
one day, not too far from the small town of Old Moulton. They were
just plain old ditch lilies, but we did not know that back then.
While we were digging, we looked up to see a tall elderly black man
walking towards us. He had a light brown suit on, and he was wearing
a big tan cowboy hat. We thought for sure, that he was a law man, and
that we had been caught.

We put our shovels down as he came closer to us, but he knew what we
were doing. He wasn't a law man, he was just a neighbor to the
property we were digging on, and he was on his way home from Church.
He told us that he knew the people who owned that property, and that
they would not want us to dig there. We said ok, and stopped. As he
was leaving, he said that he had some flowers almost like the ones
that we were digging, and that if we would dig him a few of the ones
we were getting, he would trade us. We dug a few bulbs for him and
went over to his house when we were finished.

The bulb in the picture is the crinum that Mr. Wilson traded with us.
It is a special crinum, different from all the others, in that it
hangs it's flowers downwards like little bells. Mr. Wilson told me
that his Mother was the keeper of that flower and that she had moved
it with her, where ever she moved to, for her entire life. It is a
very special crinum, and we are thankful to be able to grow it.

Giant Mushrooms??

Butterflies eating figs:)

Seeds from this pink crinum:)

This plant does not usually make any seeds.

Pink Althea, single, grown from a cutting

Garden tool shed, built by us

Some people just like to have their picture taken

My husband.....

Daylily

So many weeds to chop:(

Scott said that THIS was poison ivy, I wonder if it is?

Darkest pink of all the crinum I have:)

I better not say where these came from! They are very hard to come by.

Texas Star, grown from seed.

My friend Lorine had this plant in her flower bed for years. She gave
me the seeds for it, so now it grows in my flower bed:)

Giant Swallowtail Butterfly Caterpillar

eating what is left of my lemon tree:)

Cactus

Almost full bloom!

Asparagus, I have a lot of weeding to do in a short amount of time:(

When we first planted this asparagus, it was in a different place. I moved it, and bought more to go with it. We have only eaten a few stalks of it, and I do not believe this asparagus will ever make very many meals. We just don't get enough rain in Texas.

Day lily:)

Lots of yellow day lilies, I thought that I had lost all of these to last years drought, guess not!

Dark pink crinum, hard to come by!

This one stays in a pot!

Up close, crinum, unknown

Special white crinum

Crinum blooming

Palm tree up close:)

Desert Willow, a tree, well, a small one.

These grow wild in Paint Rock, Texas. One day a few years ago Scott
and I decided to take a driving trip up to see Paint Rock, TX. It was
a long and pretty drive. When we got there we found out that there
was nothing much to see, but there were many of these desert willows
blooming. They were beautiful, and a good food source for the humming
birds.

Day lily

Cactus from Mexico

Fig trees!

Crinum, unknown name

Day lily

A special pink crinum:)

Day Lily

Easter lily, pretty tattered

Lettuce gone to seed

Figs, they will be ready in July:)

Sweet Potato

This is a plant that once was and still is a regular grocery store
sweet potato. I usually try to eat them, but really I'm not a sweet
potato lover. Anyway, this one stayed on the window ledge so long,
that it started to sprout! I figured since it was sprouting, I would
see if it would grow into a plant. Much to my surprise, it did! All
winter it lived in the kitchen garden window, and now I am going to
see if it can live on the back deck in partial shade.

Orange/Red Amaryllis, grown from seed, 5 years time

This Amaryllis was grown from seed. Quite a few years ago I saw the most beautiful tall amaryllis I had ever seen. They were growing in front of a tan brick home in Moulton, Texas. There were only about a dozen or so of them, so I figured that there was no way that I would be able to get any of them. None the less, I stopped and asked, if they could be shared. The lady's name was Ruth. She was an older lady, that is still alive, and has a twin sister in Houston. Anyway, she said that she would be happy to share them with me, and that these amaryllis she had, had come from her Mother. She went and got a giant pickax, and went about digging these bulbs out for me. I believe she gave me six of them, almost half of what she had. They grow tall and beautiful for me, just as they still do for her. Each year when they are blooming, I try to make sure that I get them pollinated, even if I have to do it myself. I have collected and grown seed from these Amaryllis that I call Ruth, for all the years I have had them. My plants never come back true, because I have so many other types of Amaryllis close by, but sometime I get flowers almost as pretty. I think I had to stay and talk for 5 hours, when I got these plants, so you can't say that I didn't have to work for them. Ruth was very kind. Thanks for your kindness and generosity. And thanks to those of you who look at and read this blog.

wildflowers!

Wildflowers in Moulton

Amaryllis, grown from seed!

You NEVER EVER know what you will get!

Still a few bluebonnets!

White Yarrow:

Old kind given to me by an old friend named Lorine. She is gone now.
Lorine was our first friend here. She was also known as "the flower
lady", because of all the many flowers she grew. In her garage she
had a large collection of small white milk glass vases. She took cut
flowers in them all over town. I think she got most of them back, why
she had so many. People in small towns are usually so kind and
honest. Not to mention that they wanted more flowers!

Yellow Iris, Carol's house, really mine

This one was given to me, it makes seeds, but can take over. Old kind.