Wow! what some wonderful shots
I love everything,the froggies
are so cute! lol!
Susan

As Great as those pic's are they really just don't do their yard justice!!! It is Beautiful!!!

Kylie

Your garden is great. I love the water plants! and your pond. The pink plumeria is really nice.

The frogs though.. i dont like frogs, In my garden there are always frogs, ugly ones, and i dont like them. They are kinda eeeek....

LOl

Looks great Kristy. You have done a wonderful job. Whats goin on with the GH?

I am roflmao @ Siam..too funnnyyy!!!

Hey, the heat's not holding your garden back! Look at those plummies, just beautiful. And I like John's flamingo- wild! Altho it looks like your flamingo now!!
And wow, is that a white Iochroma? Blooming like crazy!

Thanks for sharing- you must be proud!

Brenda

Polly is getting big! I remember when she was just a baby..:) Your plants are awesome..Look at your crinum go..Remeber we called them mushrooms in the RR lol...Wonderful job you have done Kristy with your new gh!

That's just beautiful,Makes me want to come over and crack a beer by the pond. It looks like a oasis, nothing like DFW where I visited for a day.
I would never leave home!

Thanks everyone. Siam you crack me up. I like the little frogs. Polly is a giant, lol. I wonder if she is a bullfrog. The giant white iochroma looking one is my mystery plant. I was wondering if its a milkweed after I saw Karyn's or some sort of cestrum? The heat is getting worse so it won't look nice much longer I'm afraid, lol. I need another shade cloth for the greenhouse. Its really hot in there but the crinums do seem to be happy in there.

Everything looks great and that is one of the coolest flamingos that I've seen. I love flamingos, even the tacky pink plastic ones.

At least your dogs just drink from the pond. Bailey must have been chasing something and ended up in the smaller pond. Well she's almost as big as it so all the plants were squashed. At least that pond doesn't have any fish, just a whole bunch of tadpoles which were fine.

I hope that Polly doesn't turn out to be a bullfrog or she'll probably eat the leopard frog as well as anything else that will fit into her mouth
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I dont know how I missed this when I first read this, but,
If Polly is the one in the last 3 pics, I'd say yes, she is a bullfrog. You can tell if she is male or female by the typanum. That is the "ear" the circle behind the eye on each side. If the typanum is larger than the eye it is a male, if it is smaller or equal to the eye it is a female.
She will def eat everything in your pond. When she gets big enuf she can even eat birds.

I love the flamingo too. John told them on the fishing forum it was his guard swan and had to go back and change it, lol. I think Polly is taking a trip to the city park, lol. Lucy Lou just got in my lotus pond again after all this time. My bud is getting close to blooming and if she kills it she is going to city park too, lol. Just kidding but I really wish she would leave my tubers alone. She thinks they taste good.

Kristy, your yard is just beautiful, how do you do it? It was 105 degrees here today in my backyard. Barbra

Water a lot, lol. The heat is taking its toll. The things that get some shade are doing the best. I water some in the morning and more in the evening so it has longer to soak in before it evaporates. Of course the powdery mildew will be liking that soon too, lol.

Everything looks so pretty. I like your bull frog. I thought all my frogs had disappeared then out of the blue I saw my lost bull frog that showed up last year. Sitting under a dripping irrigation pipe. My toads and tree frogs I still hold out hope will show if we ever get some rain. I did finally take my camera outside so I could take a picture of him and a few flowers.

We are in a 100+ year drought here 1.5 inches of rain since January 1. LOL Mother nature is culling the plants.

Jim

I feel for you Jim. We are nearly as bad a shape here with the rain or lack of. Your frog are probably hunkered down sort of dormant until the rain comes. I was just outside and wondered where all my frogs and toads were and could hear them singing a few houses away and they don't have a pond. Then we looked in the pond to check on John's baby goldfish that are about an inch long now and there was a snake in the pond. I guess all the frogs took a road trip, lol. I went to turn on the light in the greenhouse and there was a big toad in there sitting under the faucet with his mouth open, lol. I gave him a squirt with the hose. Poor thing. I had Polly all packed up and ready to take her to city park and I couldn't do it. She is so cute. I am keeping her. I'll turn the leopard frog loose in the pond as soon as I figure out how to get rid of this snake. Polly looks just like the kind of frog that turns into a prince when you kiss it. Didn't work though, lol.