Just one? WHAAAAAAAH!! :D

Omar

Beautiful view! Wow, that phlox is stunning. I hope your recovery is going well. :)

Hmmm, might try more photos this time and see what happens.

So for now onward with a shot of "Robert Poore" phlox behind the lady on the table (thank you Patty). It is very similar to "First Lady" and more commonly available. On the left of "Robert" is a shorter variety of phlox "John Fanick's". All are very fragrant and make excellent cut flowers.

The bright green leafed Brazilian orchid tree in the center is recovering nicely from two years of hard freezes ...

"Robert Poore" in the blue pot ...

"First lady" in another pot ...

"John Fanick's" ...

All the phlox bloom all summer. When spent blooms are snapped off more flowers will emerge from below.

Four photos may be the limit according to Mara. More next post ...

Okay, so far so good!

I'm very happy with the "Dragon wing" begonias suggested by someone on this forum, girlnamedgale. Thank you Gale!

Begonias resist wilting, but IF they do (and these did) they will recover very nicely.

The matching pot also with 'Dragon Wings" ...

Thanks to Brian in Austin for seeds to Tithonia. They are about 5 ft. tall, but at times were so badly wilted they were laying on the ground, but amazingly with a little bit of water they bounced back!

Same with the old fashioned cone flowers, one of which is seen blooming beneath the glower of the sullen toad. Again thanks to Brian for seeds.

Have I reached the limit of four? Not gonna' test it. More to follow ...

And finally, here's the guy who has kept it all together ... Thank you my darling!

And lastly a selfie, sorta ... ;-)

Looking good!

Omar

Omar, referring to your first post above, don't you read? You really should pray for patience! I said more were coming ... ;-)

Mz G, recovery going well, but it takes a while. It's been 7 weeks since the incident and I'm just now allowed to put a little bit of weight on the leg while on the walker.

My prayer is "Lord give me patience, and I want it right now". LOL

It took you 4 minutes too long. Bob did a great job.

Let's do that video!

Omar

Looks good! Here's to you getting back on your feet soon.

Glad the tithonia and purple cone flowers are doing well for you. They are pretty resilient, especially the cone flowers. I have a couple of dense stands of them now from them vigorously self-seeding.

I really like your phlox! I need to buy one of those. I've only grown the annual varieties before.

I concur that Omar needs to do a video of your garden. :)

How beautiful, Ragna, and phlox are my favorites as well. They just stand there laughing at the sun as long as they get water. and bloom and bloom. Hopefully, the next time you photograph, it will be from your walker that will give you more mobility. Thanks to Bob for taking such good care of you.

He’s a keeper!

thats quite the contraption you have there. Most certainly not a “silly misstep”.

Wonderful to hear from you again. Happy to hear you are semi mobile. Everything looks well tended and beautiful as usual. Love the phlox.

Bossy, yes ... it's quite a contraption, but so much better than the solid cast with traction for weeks which used to be the treatment. Now with surgery to screw in a metal plate the break is stabilized and the brace can be removed at night. Now it can also be removed when I'm in the recliner -- which is most of the time ... :-(

Yes, Junegreen, so glad to be semi mobile and be able to do a few things, but it's boring.

Is there a book club on this site? I need recommendations for some good books; travel, adventure, gardening, exploration for rare plants and animals, comedy fiction (nothing tragic) ...

Timely replying to emails could be interesting. Just saying...

Omar

Omar ...

Great to see you outside, and your garden looks great. I don't have plants that can't recover from wilting..... OR they won't have me.

What is your husband doing to David? It looks highly questionable.

Here are some books that I have liked recently. OH , I read books picked up from thrift stores so they are usually not recent publications. It appears that I have been reading books centered around the era of the Mexican Revolution.

Luis Urrea, " Hummingbirds Daughter" & "Queen of America"

Victor Villasenior "Rain Of Gold"

Orhan Pamuk "My name Is Red"( Nobel prize winner from Turkey)

Téa Obreht " The Tiger's Wife"

"The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane" by Kate DiCamillo is an awesome book.

Omar

Thank you Mara and Omar! The titles alone are fascinating. I'll check on the used book sites for them.

I bet you will cry over Edward Tulane.

Omar

The garden looks marvelous! It's good to know that your plants bounced back after wilting. Here's to your wonderful husband, Bob. He's doing a great job of taking care of things.

I'm glad that you are able to remove the brace while sleeping. I assume that it's fairly easy to get off and back on?

I am a member of the KT (Kitchen Table) book club, but we are new and mostly reading Mystery/Thriller stuff. If you are interested here's the link.

https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/615019-kt-book-club

That phlox is sooo pretty. :D

OMG, Ragna, I need to spend more time on the GW. I haven't been here in a while. A lot can happen in a short period of time. Sounds like you've settled in for your long winter's cap, of recovery, so to speak.

Your yard still looks remarkable. Of course, we are all very jealous. Be sure to give Bob a raise when all this is done. Of course, by then, he'll start considering them his plants and will have a very good handle on watering each of them and knowing exactly how much care each one needs. I'm just amazed that you have kept so many plants in pots. I would have thought they would have done better in the ground. Doesn't that add to the amount of water that they need?

Xtal

Beautiful garden, love the phlox.

hope you are back on your feet soon.

Thanks for the dryer sheet tip, the ants are not crossing the sheets. We have orioles are staying with us this year and they love the hummer feeder.

take care

jo

Jo, so glad the dryer sheet tip is helping keep the cut ants off the plants!

Following are a few more views as I noticed the graceful manner in which plants grow and bloom.

Bob moved the bench to mow and the phlox found a convenient prop and grew right through it ...

The light is a little bright but the photo still shows the grace of Shrimp plant 'lemon sorbet'. Unlike sorbet it doesn't melt; not even in the heat of a full sun ...

Thryalis. Love this shrub!

And maybe the most graceful of all are the flower stalks of the blue/grey succulent, one of the many varieties that goes by the common name of 'hens and chicks'.

I practically came to the point of tears begging to buy a piece that had fallen out of a planter and lay wilting on the ground. The kind employee of S.A. Antique Rose Emporium had mercy on me and let me have it. I will be eternally grateful.

Here it grows out of a large white strawberry pot ...

Closer ...

The flowers last for weeks. Maybe Mara knows the name or at least the family it belongs to.

All plants have their certain desirable traits. Which ones have you noticed to be particularly graceful in your yards? Take some photos and show us!

Oh and one more. The Inca doves are sitting on eggs again. I missed the fledgling of the first little ones ...

My guess would be a Echeveria runyonii, the plain form , not the "topsy turvy". There are lots of differing populations of them.

The succulent flowers are unreal. Beautiful :o