Purple and Green Spring

Boy howdy! Sometimes I just can't fathom the depth of my occasional dorkitude. I've been getting all giddy because my Yellow Bird of Paradise bushes are getting ready to bloom. However a few weeks ago, noticed an unusual red growth smothering the stems and spreading out up upon the buds. I beat feet down to the local nursery and bought a rather expensive organic pest potion. I was all over the net trying to research theses little buggers. I looked up fungi, I looked up aphids, I looked up mites and I looked up scale. Much to my chagrin, I could not identify the anomoly. So I finally decided to check out close up shots of the blossoms and buds of this plant on the net, and that was when i discovered that the growth is actually part of the plant. Funny little red beard ya got there! I'm a dork.


The Verbena is always anxious to bloom early in spring.


The Texas Laurel is just about in full bloom too. This is one tree of mine that I really wished that the blossoms would linger longer.


The Ocotillo is bustin out nicely.

Here is a close up of the Occotillo Leaves.


The potato Bush really exploded almost all at once. I think it was in a blooming race with the Verbena.


The snow devistated my large Cape Honeysuckle. It was the favorite of all of the Hummingbird visitors. I decided to leave all of the old wood in tact, for the little sparrows and finches. Its just a few feet from the pond and they like to use it to bounce back and forth from between the pond.
I got some footage of a handfull of birds pirched up in it. If you want to check it out its in the "Roadrunner Morning" video.


Yee Gads! Someones built a little condo in the Verbina. I'll have to get a shot of the eight legged arachnid sometime.