I thought my senna looked so pretty this weekend. It was covered in buds. Next weekend it should be stunning. This plant is a great spring and fall bloomer. It does not bloom in the summer.
The alliums are blooming. These are called Texas Wild Onion alliums. Some years I have huge clump of them. Other years, just a few. This year I have one lone clump. In the photo below I have taken a close up of a flower. It is blooming and already going to seed. The leaves of the plant are edible. We cut the up and use them on our baked potatoes.
Alliums spread by increase and by seed. In the photo above and below you can see that a seed sprouted in the crevice of the cedar edging. It is happily growing in that inhospitable spot.
The sunflowers that I planted from seed are beginning to bloom. I thought I'd better take a picture of them now since something (I assume deer) seems to love to eat the flowers. They may be gone before I return next week.
The Spider Lilies are starting to bloom. The bare stems pop out of the ground. They bloom. Greenery grows after the flowers die. The greenery will persist all winter and die away when the weather gets hot next summer.
I love this purple lantana. There is a white variety that I love too. I don't have any of the white variety in my garden. I will be on the lookout for it next spring. The are both prostate forms, so they are very good for the front of the border. Some varieties of lantana get very tall, so they are back of the border plants. Butterflies love lantana - all those individual florets full of nectar.
