Hi Josh! Nice to hear from you! Wow! You could have fooled me! I would never have believed it was 107* there. Everything is so beautiful! I love the Erythrina Crista-Galli & the Princess Flower especially. Poor lil' guy. Did he fly away yet?

Theresa

Wow, the plants seem to love the heat! I love the Princess Flower and Erythrina Crista-Galli too! Everything looks amazingly lush! Thanks for taking the time to share your beautiful garden!

Pam

Wow Josh your yard is amazing! Love your find too..He looks like he is smiling at you...Your puppy dog is cute too...I really emjoyed your pics..That bougie is awesome! They remind me of home in Ca...:))Barb

WOW Josh, i wish i had your garden!!! Everything is just so perfect, it is truely beautiful.
I like the Erythrina Crista-Galli , its very unusual, and i wouldnt mind having a few of those plums :P
Whats variety of canna is that you have?
Again your garden is absolutely georgous.

Wow, Josh!! Your yard looks amazing! It has come such a long way, you have done an awesome job and should be very proud of yourself!! Everything is absolutely beautiful..but I wanna know..umm..where is the hammock, dude??? It's gone!!! :o
That looked like such a great place to lounge. I really liked that hammock.

Thanks for all your complements!

Theresa, It's really good to be back in the swing of summer. I haven't had enough time to enjoy the yard. The little guy flew away today. I left him out on a crepe myrtle tree where the adult birds come to sleep at night near a container of bird feed and our doggies' water bowl. I left him there this morning and he flew away some time afterward.

pkponder, I really like the erythrina. I grew it from seed about 2 or 3 years ago. The thing grows soooo fast. It should grow to about 25 or 30 feet tall.

Rosepedal, Thanks. That is Penny there in the picture. I got her from the shelter last summer. I really love those bougies too, but I hate pruning them. Their spines are hooked and extremeley vicious. Almost like the spines on the Mexican Fan Palm (the tall skinny ones planted all over CA).

Siam, the cannas are plain c. indica. They grow about 8 feet or higher and the flower spike contains lots of small yellow flowers. Hummingbirds love them, but they are in a bad spot because we have to reach over to turn on the water hose. I've actually ripped out the whole patch twice before and they somehow manage to show up again. it must be a piece of the rhizome i leave behind.

Daniellaell, Don't worry, I didn't throw the hammock away! haha. I actually took it down because we used it at a lake last weekend. I'll put it back up soon. I also just bought another hammock last month while I was in Guatemala. It's a cloth one, but I'm hesitant to put it outside because the cloth will probably become bleached and eventually it will tear due to the elements.

Josh
as always your yard is georgeous, I am sorry, you have so much heat right now, but your plants look really good.
BTW it is good to hear from you.
my Brugs look really bad right now, we had a hail storm, last Thursday, it punched holes in all the leaves
Elizabeth

My,my,my what a beautiful collection of plants
you have, wonderful succulents, flowers lovely!
Thanks for shareing!
Susan

For not having much time, everything in your garden looks great! I like the Erythrina the best, that is one beautiful flower & what a nice bright color. Good for you saving the little bird, he probably would have died without a drink in all the heat.

Linda

Gorgeous photos! Your yard looks wonderfully inviting, even with the heat!

Thanks Elizabeth,
They brugs you sent are both in the shade and branching like crazy. Especially the Georgia Peach. I've never had hail damage on my brugs because the few times we've had hail, it's been in the early spring while my brugmansias are leafless.

Susan, thank you for your compliments. I have gotten into the succulent world lately. That succulent bed was started last summer and most of the plants there were started from cuttings from friends and family. That's the great thing about succulents, they are SUPER easy to reproduce.

Linda, I finally cleaned the erythrina yesterday. Boy was that a task! I'd rather get into a tangle with a rosebush than with an erythrina! lol. I'm training it into a tree form with a long trunk, so I cleaned away the small, thin, flowerless branches.

Phoenixryan, If you're ever in central CA, you're welcome to come over! I'll treat you to some passionfruit juice from my p.edulis vine(tastes like lemonade).

Everything looks great Josh! What a cute little baby bird too. Kylie brought me a baby tree frog and it was in the aquarium with the other frogs so I could put it outside near one of the ponds and now I can't find it. I hope Polly didn't eat him. Frown. Its been really hot here as well.