The Yard

Here is a quick picture of our wolfberry bush, putting out a few tiny purple flowers, and some small red berries. Very odd plant.

A couple of roses, a Double Delight, and Mr. Lincoln. Hopefully planting them this time of year, they'll survive through next spring, and perhaps beyond.

Isolated Storm

This is the true definition of an isolated thunderstorm. Emily took this picture whilst coming home tonight. The storm was sitting over south Phoenix, about 30 miles to the west. In the first shot you can just make out the rain coming out of the storm. There wasn't another cloud anywhere around it for miles.

This is a shot of the same storm from our back yard, minutes later. The top of the storm was already starting to get sheared I'm guessing my the upper level winds. Minutes after this the storm was scattered completely across the western sky.

Here's a quick picture of my clearance rose, I've managed to get a bloom out of it, albeit a small one.

Plant Bonanza

Here recently I've acquired a number of new plants, none of which are pictured here, EXCEPT this guy. I'm rotating it in and out of the house, whenever it's shady on the porch. Perhaps next year I'll transplant it into a larger pot and keep it outside, but it's a little sensitive to the dry heat. Thanks to the six tenths of an inch of rain that we had last night, however, the humidity is sky high, and the plant seems to like that. It's a Japonica something or other, I didn't see a common name for it in my book, so I'll no doubt never remember the scientific name. I love the color of the blooms on it, and the shape of the leaves.



I also traded in my dead nectarine tree for a chuparosa, which will have red blooms next spring. There were two in the pot, so one went in my raised planter, the other into a pot on the back porch. I also got another bird of paradise, which will probably end up in the front yard, filling the void of my potato bush, which bought the farm back in the earlier part of August.

I also managed to get two 5 gallon roses for the price of a 2 gallon, because they were mislabeled at the store. I have a vague idea of where they're going, and since my five dollar rose vine is still alive, there is hope that I'm figuring out how to care for them here. We'll see, famous last words.