My Summer Deck "Pot" Garden

I do love flowers and each Spring I get the "fever" to fill all my empty pots on the deck with new annuals. I can't do much in the yard because I have a "digger" dog who will plow up anything I try to plant in the flower beds so I have to stick to the pots I keep up high enough he can't bother them. This is this years efforts.

 

Deep Pink Wave Petunias

 

Lavender Foxglove

 

                The "digger" dog surveying HIS territory from HIS picnic bench.

 

                                       Snoop has "pruned" the lower branches but the ones

                                           he can't reach on the Rose Of Sharon are nice.

 

                                                                Golden Marigolds

 

              I grow the gladiolas in the front yard where

  Snoop can't get to them.

 

                                                                   Red Impatiens

 

                                                                     Red Begonias

 

                                                                Pink Begonias

 

Coral Pink Miniature Roses

 

                                                           Red Orange Geraniums

 

                                                                    Hot Pink Vinca

Red Orange Double Hibiscus

 

           The Chili Peppers Are Huge

 

The Mammoth Jalapenos Are Quite Prolific Too

 

Red Luna Hibiscus

 

My Favorite Of All My Plants...The Muy Grande  Hot Pink Luna

           Dinner Plate Size Hibiscus I've Had For Eight Years.

It's Actually A Perennial That Freezes And Comes Back Bigger

               The Next Year. This Is The First Bloom This Year But

It's Loaded With Buds. It's About Six Feet Tall

And Five Feet Wide This Summer.

 

I Call This My "Coffee Perch" View. It's What I See Every Morning From The

Covered Part Of The Deck I Sit Under To Drink My Coffee. 45 Pots Of Pretty Blossoms

And The Neighbors Beautiful Overhanging Pink Crepe Myrtles.

 

HAVE A GREAT SUMMER!

 

 

 

 

Signs Of The Times

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LOL Humor In 2014

 

 

 

 

Texas Spring Inspirations

I have taken some time off from blogging due to lack of inspiration but I have been taking a few photos of Spring scenes I favor after the long cold winter...some of them with a zoom from my morning perch on the deck for coffee. I always decorate the deck with my favorite annuals and spread seed and provide water for the birds and squirrels I love to watch...and photograph.

 

 A few weeks ago the bluebonnets were in full bloom along the highways.

 I never get tired of looking at Texas wildflowers in the Spring.

 The sparrows are the most skitzy of the deck birds but they eventually get used to me.

 

 

Dusk before the "blood" moon that fully eclipsed at 2:00 am.

It was pretty but I couldn't hold the camera steady directly

 over my head in my P.J.'s.

 

The best I could do that chilly night was a bouncing "blood" moon

and  a "streaking" star.

 

 

I've seen this little chameleon a number of times sitting on my plants waiting for bugs and it's a puzzle. I've had lots of chameleons on the deck but this is the first one

I've ever seen with spots down his back.

 

I know he's a chameleon because he changes colors depending on where he's hanging out. I'm wondering if it's Mom got mixed up with one of those big spotted lizards

that hang out in the front flowerbeds...hum.

 

A "normal" solid color chameleon...the mother maybe?

 

 What's that fool mate of mine doing this time?

 

Getting high on Comino seeds again?

 

Awwww Mabel!

 

 

 

The Whitewings rule the deck. They can chase off anything except the dogs.

 

Snoop & Oaklie rule the backyard.

   

The squirrels will chatter at me if I let their water bells get empty. 

 

 They chatter at the dogs too and I'm sure it goes something

 like ($%*+#@*! dogs... always chasing us up and down the fence!

 

HAVE A GREAT SUMMER! Hopefully I'll

get over my blog block by the Fall.