Flower update

Well the flowers in the bed aren't doing well. Most have been burned to a crisp. I know why though--the flower bed doesn't get complete coverage from the sprinklers! D'oh! Hopefully that will get fixed and I'll have better luck.

The pansies and snapdragons weren't doing well with the heat, so I pulled them out of the pot by the front door and planted Mealy Blue Sage (Salvia farinacea). It's a Texas native, and seems to be doing well with our 80-90 degree weather. It should bloom until the fall.

I also bought Texas Lantana (Lantana urticoides), and put that on the back porch. It's doing pretty well too. Although I think I'm going to need to find either a bigger pot or a permanent home for it. It was an impulse purchase, and it's really a shrub and not a flower. Hopefully this summer I'll work out a landscape plan using Texas natives.