Texas Hill Country Garden

This scary looking black spiny caterpillar (or is it a worm) will eat all of the leaves off of your passionflower vine.  But have no fear, the plant can handle it.  The caterpillar will turn into the gulf fritillary butterfly.  It does not bother the plant until it has finished flowering for the year.  It also will not harm the passion fruit.  So I say let the bug have the leaves.  The passion vine is pretty invasive and you will have less leaves to clean up in the winter.  All creatures great and small.

It’s been a several weeks since we had any substantial rain, so I decided to give our plants some water…mostly the ones we planted this year.  To my surprise, we had Pineapple Guavas laying on the ground underneath our tree.  We have had this tree for several years, like six and this is the first year we have gotten flowers and fruit.  I posted about the flowers earlier in the year.  We are so happy!  Oh and I included a picture of a Meyer Lemon.  We planted this tree this year and it has already produced a fruit!  Yay!

Pineapple guavas

 

 

 

 

 

 

Meyer lemon