This year has been a learning experience as it was the first time, I have had a garden here in New Mexico. Our yard is very unfinished, and I have referred to it as tragic. I have started to add some structure to the yard. I planted some lavender, Texas sage and butterfly bush. It is a very much a work in progress. Everything I have grown is in containers.
I moved my container of dahlias, and they really took off. The area I moved them to has afternoon shade and our sprinklers hit them in the early mornings. I wrote here about growing dahlias in high heat. Below is one of my favorite dahlia pictures.
My teddy bear sunflowers are doing well also. I love how soft they look.
Below are my Floret Sahara Black Eye Susan's. I wasn't able to order these seeds this time during Floret's seed sale, but I did order some other varieties. This is a keeper in this location. The vine in the picture is Thunbergia which is a Black-Eyed Susan Vine. I did like this combo. It was a little wild.
I bought some Zinna starts early in the season for my porch and then sowed some Zinna seeds. They are really leggy. I would like to grow Zinnas again not for my front porch. They got extremely leggy.
I did like geraniums on my porch. Though they did seem to get a bit sunburned. They were discount ones from Walmart. I also bought a discount succulent basket. The bear was a thrift find.
I spent talking time talking to my best friend about future garden plans. I got ideas. I will grow some more dahlias and will grow them on this side of the shop. Lots of lessons learned because of the high heat. When I close out the garden I plan on posting on some things I would like to grow next year.
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