The grass was totally brown a little over a week ago, and then we started getting afternoon rains and a few storms. Now the grass in the back "40" (really 5 acres) is green and pretty. In fact I mowed yesterday for two and 1/2 hours on a big ole John Deere.
Now the Caladiums are looking much better and holding up those big leaves on strong stems, when before they could hardly hold themselves up!
Even though the wind from the storms, frayed some of the banana tree leaves, it still looks great and is growing away! I don't know how long it takes to get bananas, but I am hoping maybe this year it will produce.
The orchid color crape myrtle is starting to bloom now. It is about 3 or 4 weeks later than the pink ones, but it is really pretty. The buds first look pink, but then the flowers are a lovely soft orchid color. They look "pinker" in the photo then they really are.
The glories of Summer!
The glories of Summer!
I'm new to your blog! You have such a beautiful garden! You grow Banana too? Wow!
ReplyDeleteThe crape myrtle is really very pretty!
Egretta, do you really have five acres of land that is just grass?? And if so, why have you not made it into a giant veg patch?!
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear the grass is green again. Alot of mowing! The colour in the leaves and flowers are really nice.
ReplyDeleteThank you for looking at my blog, Malar.I am trying to grow bananas...last winter we did have a rare freeze and the poor tree got really hurt, but it has come back!
ReplyDeleteMark, it is hard enough to mow that much, sometimes twice a week in the rainy season. I would have to have 6 employees to have that big a veg patch!
Your garden is like a little patch of paradise! I love all the topicals and subtropicals you are managing to grow. What do you do with all the grass clippings from that huge area? Do they go straight back onto the lawn or do you collect them up and use them as mulch or for making compost? There must be a terrific amount of clippings!
ReplyDeleteshoestring cottage, there are lots of clippings, but we just let it go back into the lawn--it is never really high when we mow. Once we were gone 2 weeks and when we got back, we mowed and it was hay---seven truck loads of it!
ReplyDeleteActually our ground is loose and "mucky" and the best thing to fertilize with is manure, probably. I do not make food scrap compost as then you would have wild animals, like raccoons and wild hog digging up your garden! Basically I use Miracle Grow on flowers and veggies. I mulch with cypress mulch. Thanks for looking.