Summer evening

June 19, 2006


‘Powis Castle’ artemesia’s lacy, silver foliage

I know it isn’t officially summer yet, but it has felt like summer in Austin for at least a month. Evenings and mornings are when you can stroll magisterially through your garden and see what’s growing (or wilting). The plants are tall and fresh right now because of the recent rains. Here is what caught my eye this evening.


Artemesia with ‘The Fairy’ roses


Purple coneflowers and black-eyed Susans under the vitex tree


Coneflowers glowing in the sunset


Rudbeckia ‘Goldsturm’


Rudbeckia party

1st garden--2006

3 responses to “Summer evening”

  1. susan says:
    June 21, 2006 at 7:35 AM

    I’m always rewarded for visiting you with such terrific photos. Keep ’em coming. Susan

  2. Pam says:
    June 21, 2006 at 10:28 AM

    Thanks, Susan!

  3. Robert Penick says:
    July 10, 2006 at 10:48 PM

    Hi, Pam,
    I enjoyed the beautiful pictures of Colorado and your garden at home! Your comments on rain gardening force me to realize that I should modify the drainage system I constructed on my mom’s homesite. What I have in place is effectively protecting the house, as the July 3 storm proved, but the garden area is bypassed and water rushes by unfiltered on its way to the North San Gabriel River. Not good.
    Keep up your blog. It is guiding hearts and minds.