A Different Kind Of Garden Post

Here are a few more shots taken recently from around the yard. Today was about the 200th straight day over 100. Well, at least it seems like it. Actually, in all honesty, you really get used to it after about the first week. If you get up early enough in the morning, you an catch a slight chill in the air off the back porch (it was 70 at 5:30am today, for example).

The orange jubilee are continuing their conquest of the south side of the yard. Eventually they'll grow together, and I'll have to take a machete through them to make a path. At least that's my eventual goal. The larger ones on the left are shedding something fierce, I don't know if it's because I'm watering them too much or not enough, but they've thinned out almost to the point that I'm starting to worry about them a bit.

Here's a shot from off the back porch, still facing the south side of the house.

A shot through the trees, of the back porch and pergola.

The Chilean mesquite in the setting sun. Come June I'll have to buy one of those saws on a pole to thin this thing out before the monsoon hits. Waaay too top heavy to withstand any serious wind storms, which are commonplace come July.

On the complete opposite side of the house, the Mulga continues to thrive on very little water. It hasn't formed much of a canopy, seems to be growing straight up and narrow, but hopefully it will fill out as it gets older.

And finally, another shot of a different cardinal vine blooming. This one is barely two inches tall, and yet it's started blooming, go figure.