We were going to work in our yard yesterday but the rain made that impossible. Yesterday was a good time to organize things in the house. Anyway, we pulled up all the dried up bluebonnets in the front of the house. We always love the bluebonnets in the spring but they do look ugly when they are going to seed. I placed the dry seed pods in brown paper bags. I will set them in the sun and supposedly when the temperature reached 90 degrees the seed pods will open up. The seeds will drop to the bottom of the bag which I can later collect.
We have a spot in the front of our house that we have never been good at having something grow. We usually would plant annuals. However, nothing could last through the summer. We decided to plant Ixora. This plant in a perennial. Supposedly, it likes hot, dry soil. I have high hopes that this is the plant for this spot. The flowers will be yellow.
I am very proud of my vegetable garden. This year I planted tomato seeds. I tried planting tomato seeds last year and it was a complete failure. I ended up having to buy plants at the nursery.This year my plants look very good. Now the problem will be how to keep the birds from eating all the fruit from the plants. I have included some pictures of my garden. I attached some shiny strips from some play pom-poms to keep the birds away. I am thinking that I might need a scare crow too.
Reflections 