Sunday, April 26, 2009

Garden Update

Wanted to update everyone on the flowers in our garden. Its a nice time of year here in Houston, and the flowers respond well to the warm weather, sun and occasional huge rain storm.

Here is the bougainvillea (two different colors actually) that grow on the trellis right behind the house. Without any fertilizer or trimming they have flowered beautifully this year (although the leaves are a little lacking - not sure if that is still from beating they took during the hurricane last year). They're beautiful to look at out the back doors because the colors are so bright.
The clematis also came out this year. Last year they only produced one flower between the 6 vines. The vines themselves look a little weak, but the flowers are beautiful this year. You can see 3 on this plant, and Raquel puts her hand next to one to give you an idea how large they are. Here's Raquel checking out the jasmine. They are easy to grow, we had them in Austin and they grew everywhere. If you look down the side of the house you can see the rose vines are way overgrown and in need of a good trimming. We've been so busy we just haven't gotten to it.

2 comments:

REAL Frank said...

Love the clematis. I haven't tried growing one of those yet. They probably wouldn't get that big here.

J.J.A.G. Hanson said...

Your jasmine is incredible! Way to go! Love, J.J.A.G.