Asiatic Dayflower is a self-seeding annual plant that has been slowly spreading here. I read that this plant is edible, though I haven’t tried it yet.
Category Archives: Flowers
Fall Flowers
The heavy rains caused some normally, spring-flowering plants to produce flowers in fall.
Tamarix ramosissima ‘Pink Cascade’
This is the first year that Pink Cascade Salt Cedar has flowered. The insects liked the flowers of this Tamarix.
Rose of Sharon
Rose of Sharon flowers early in life.
Lone Peach
Because of the bad winter that killed the flower buds, the Peach trees didn’t produce a harvest of fruit. Though one lone Peach fruit did appear high up in one of the trees.
Kiss Me Over The Garden Gate
Kiss Me Over The Garden Gate is a long named plant with a good flower display. This annual self seeds easily.
Past and Present
The Ironweed in the photo below has the old flower stalk still attached, while producing new flowers this year. Ironweed is of the Vernonia genus and is a hardy and tough plant.
Hydrangea Flowers
Flowers on the Hydrangea Bush are attractive to the eye and also to insects.
Hoptree Flowers
Hoptree appears to be flowering. Though this tree, also known as the Wafer Ash, it entangled with a Morning Glory vine.
Grasshopper Versus Tree Dahlia
Grasshoppers are everywhere this year. This plague of insects has frequently been seen on the Tree Dahlias. Tree Dahlias are not hardy here and have to be dug up every fall and replanted in the spring. So far they have not flowered in our climate.