Flowers and Plant Stakes

Flower Garden

A lot has happened since my last post.  I just had to have a red flowering Tropical Sage (Salvia coccinea) after getting the Coral Nymph cultivar a week before.  I ended up picking up this Sage at Tallahassee Nurseries.  Now our rain/flower garden area has lots of different colors!  We decided to use leftover bricks for the border of the garden and now that looks a lot nicer.  We also had a female hummingbird visit one of the Amaryllis while we were out there, first one I've seen this Spring.

The mornings are the best with blooms from the purple spiderwort, yellow milkweed, red Tropical Salvia, white/pink Coral Nymph, red Coral Honeysuckle, and all the different Amaryllis showing their colors.  We also have Ox Eye Sunflower, a vine that I haven't seen bloom yet (it was definitely planted by the previous owner), and some Four O'Clocks looking healthy.

Morning picture with all the colors!

These Amaryllis blooms are almost too heavy for the stem.

The dogs think this is their garden too.

Right after the red blooms opened and before the heavy ones...

Plant Stakes

One of my wife's coworkers, Jonathan B., works with pottery and I had her ask him if he could make us some vegetable stakes after seeing this post on the blog, Garden Therapy.  These stakes came out great!  

Here are all the stakes I had Jonathan make.

Our carrots like the new plant stake!

Herbs (still haven't sprouted), beans, carrots, and squash.

Wakulla Springs Field Trip

I went along with my kindergartner on her field trip to Wakulla Springs.  Here are some of the beautiful plants and animals that we came across...

American Alligator

American White Ibis

Massive bald cypress tree, the tour guide said this tree is the oldest in the park.

Rest of the Yard...

Our squash is growing like crazy and some fruit are almost ready to harvest.  The pole beans have also started growing out of control, so much that I had to build another trellis to give the vines more room to grow.  The daylilies and knockout roses along the driveway are blooming like crazy.  Sunflowers from spilled birdseed are also opening up.  It's too bad that we lost two of the bigger flowers, the flower heads just fell off.  

Sunflower just about to open.

The perfect daylily bloom?

Female yellow squash bloom with male flower forming the fruit.  

New pole bean trellis.

Hopefully by the next post we will pick some squash!