Texas Hill Country Garden

I don’t mind, but I wonder why…

My husband bought me this full size tree.  I normally buy very small plants because I am cheap. lol.  It is beautiful and I love it.

We live on a hill.  We planted this berm to slow down the water.  Slowing down the water should put more water in our well.  It should lessen erosion.  Also, our neighbors behind us experience flooding over their driveway during large rain storms, so we hope it will help with this as well.  An added benefit is noise reduction and privacy.

…and here it is.  It is not too impressive yet!  lol.  But it will grow…

With some of his cousins, we took cuttings of my husband’s great grandmother’s fig tree.  This one is one year old and ready to go in the ground.  Live long and prosper little feller!

So in the month of December, right before the holidays, my husband decides to bull doze our front yard.  I had no idea! After holidays full of orange mud tracked in by the dogs, and about 8 months of not knowing how things would turn out, the wall is finished!  It was a ton of work, a lot of it in the heat of the summer.  It looks great and we are still married!  lol.  Here is the before and after:

 

Never have had much luck with green peppers.  They look beautiful, but taste a bit bitter.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Lamkin melon grows well here.  Like the Crimson Sweet watermelon, it is a bit smaller than the cantelope, but delicious and well adapted to the climate here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I thought writing on plastic knives was a great way of recycling the plastic cutlery that we get with takeout.  But, it did not work out well.  Although, I wrote on them with a sharpie, the writing faded quickly and I had to identify the veggies based on the leaf.  Writing the varieties on a sheet of paper still works best.

I do not see Painted Buntings as much as I used to…In the foreground is a flowering Pomegranate.  I have had it for about 3 years and still no fruit.  Not sure if it is bred to only produce flowers.  Why would anyone want a fruit tree that does not fruit?

Something layed eggs in my hanging basket of Petunias.

Deer can really be a pain, especially when they pull young plants out of the ground, and don’t eat them.  They just leave them to die in the sun.  But, they keep the weeds down, so it is not all bad.  And they are beautiful.

We usually put out our feeders right before Spring Break…just in case any early birds come by on their migration north.  You can hear their little chirps before you see them.

…there were lots of deer