What, Another Yard Update?

Here are some new pictures for your viewing pleasure. We picked up about a half inch of rain on Saturday, and our humidity is just now starting to come down. Clouds are coming back in tonight, but no forecast for rain, just wind (again).

This is the best I've seen the chinese pistache look, it's put out more new growth this year than previous ones. The trick is finding the right balance of water during the hottest months, so the leaves don't curl and brown.

The evening primrose are still blooming, and probably will until May. They're still in partial shade, which helps.

The jujubees have also put out a lot of new growth this spring, and are blooming. Any fruit that develops from these will unfortunately fall off once we get over 100, but it will bloom again during the monsoon in late August, and hold it's fruit until picking time in November. It would be nice to have two harvests a year, but alas, it's too bloody hot for that here.

About four years ago I pulled up all of my myoporum groundcover (in favor of flagstone sidewalks), and one came back from the ground, and is now blooming.

The blue emu bush is also blooming, although they look purple to me.



After three springs in the ground, our pomegranates appear to be holding their fruit. There are maybe six or seven maturing fruit per bush at the moment, but they're both still blooming like crazy, so there may be more.

The calomondin is nearing time for picking.

And finally, a look at the north side of the house. The creeping trumpet vine is anything but that, spreading all over the place. Our Thompson's Seedless grape has about seven clusters of developing fruit, and I've curled it's vines back into the yard, to help hide the water barrels behind.