This morning a lady stopped by that I had spoken with a few months ago when I offered up some plants for her new garden plan. Today she arrived with her son and granddaughter in tow and we loaded up her car with lambs ear, bluebonnet, rock rose, red phlox, standing cypress, Mexican petunia, day flower, and hollyhock. It’s fun to have everything established enough to have loads of extras to share with neighbors.

While we were scavenging for her plants, I noticed a few new arrivals that have been summoned by our recent rains: blossoms on a couple of the fruit trees I planted last year, aother more traditional honeysuckle and the first bloom of my Passion flower vine with loads of extra buds waiting to join this sole leader…