A few more.

Calylophus berlandieri before the bugs eat the flowers. BUT they will be fertilized. I have a theory that they developed the black spots to either attract the black bugs for fertilization OR it is to tell the world that the room is full so don't come here. Well if the latter is the case, it does not work.

What a wonderful garden you've made of your dry limestone land!!! That agave makes quite an 'impression'! Love it all ... :-)

That is Agave montana "Baccarat". Its sustained some browning of the lower leaves this winter but no death in the three that I have.

Oh, and I'm really impressed with your Purple goosenecked loosestrife. Anything that does that well on your land will do good in my yard. Did you grow it from seed? I could comment on everything, but instead will just scroll back up and look again.

Yes. They are easy peasy from seed. I got them from Txranger. They came to her un IDed. I think I sent you seed before but I can send more once they seed, or I will be coming with plants to the fall swap. I have some germinating. I added DG and compost to my otherwise very gravely spot. There is an impenetrable shelf of limestone 6" down. I took out the marl and softer layers till I could go no further and added back in a lot of the gravel and "soil"that I took out combined with a washed DG sand/compostmix. I have brought them to the swaps but the name makes people wary.

After my last post a little light flickered in my head and I checked on my seed stash and yes, you're right -- I do have seed. Whoo hoo! I'm trying to come up a good excuse as to why I didn't plant them when I got them last fall ... LOL. You say you have some germinating. So it's not too late in the year to plant them in pots now?

very nice photos. I like the smooth green tree snake, too. I've only seen those a few times on my property; once in my compost bin:

Wow! love that loosestrife! Not familiar with that plant at all.

I think the snake is called Rough Green Snake. The first time ever on my land when I was out looking to buy , I found my self surrounded by thousands of monarchs , sulfurs, and I came across two rough green snakes out in the front field. I knew I was home. I lay down in the field and breathed the october day in deeply..

Ragna, I think these seeds are not picky . Give it a whirl. If you have problems, You know where to get a hold of me. They are coming up by themselves in places that I raked them in to dry dirt under the fragrant mimosa even..

Do I need to send seed to you Barbie4me2?

Wow your plants are beautiful! The manfreda bloom looks very interesting.

Thanks for the correction, Mara. They look so alike, but the smooth green snake is mostly found north and only is listed in a small portion of SE Texas. They are cool snakes, though!

I love seeing the beautiful snake. Used to have them around here, but it's been awhile.

Love how you captured the spider web so perfectly balanced on the agave!

Smooth or rough , its a green snake. I call it a green grass snake. I depend on google to set me straight.The range was all wrong for the smooth green snake so I looked further. Some days, the snake will look a blue green in sunlight and some days it looks grass green.

Blackwillow, The manfredas are an interesting plant. Beautiful spots on the leaves..

Wow I didn't know it had spotted leaves too?

Google Manfreda maculosa and look at the images. I just saw a Manfreda 'silver leopard ' that had good color and great spots. There are several manfredas around. Then one can get into the Xmangaves which are Manfreda X Agaves, interspecies blends.

Wow it almost reminds me of a giant squall plant that I'm growing. It's neat that it can be crossed with agaves.

What beautiful photos. I love your Purple Gooseneck Loosestrife. I fell in love with it while drooling over all the flowers at Annie's Annuals. Once had a volunteer come up with another plant that I had gotten somewhere. I was so happy to have it, but it didn't come back the next year. Love all the milkweek.