I am amazed and delighted that I had this random iris bloom (and that I spotted it - what luck) growing in the garden by the dining room. I cut it brought it into the house before the big freeze that is coming on Tuesday. I admired it all 3 days I was here.
Nathan and family came for the weekend.
I pulled up both heads of lettuce out there in the Vegetable Garden. Beautiful bunches of red and green leaf lettuce. It tasted so good!
I pressed some flowers - 2 red shrimp flower - the last blooms of summer, and 1 Debutante camellia bloom. I might lose all my camellia buds and blooms tomorrow.
And I might lose my little Italicus daffodils that are in bud right now. This will be year 3 that I have been growing these bulbs, and I have never had flowers. They have been nipped by hard freezes every year. Well, at least I understand that, when it does happen, when they go all the way from bud to bloom, it will be a really special season.
Monday I made some suet and put it out in 2 feeders. It's 20 degrees. The birds have already found it. Bert put a tray of water out by one of the feeders. Everything else is frozen solid.
Below, how cool is this? This is Frostweed, a Texas native. When it freezes, the stems burst and all the water in the stems creates these ice ribbons. Bert came back from a drive around the property very intrigued by something he saw on his drive. I got in the truck with him and he drove me over to show me his find. It was Frostweed. So it made me remember that I have some growing in one of my gardens. So we drove back home, and I looked at mine. This is mine, growing in the Star Garden. These are ice ribbons.
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