Oh, What the Rain Brings!

I've been sick about losing my American Elm and a big part of that was thinking that  my tiny pet lawn...it's St. Augustine, would die because it's a shade grass.  Well, since the tree's been gone the other trees have stretched up and the past week of rain has left my lawn looking like a shag carpet from the 70's!  You can't even see the rock edging!  

 What is quite disturbing is this bird bath.  Before the rain it had a bunch of gunk on the bottom...now I'm worrying about the quality of the rain.  What on earth could scrub a concrete fixture clean...other than say...acid?  I'm not sure what to make of this.

 On the other hand, the plants seem to be thriving...this is my second flush of chili petin!

 And...I've never seen blooms on the asparagus fern before!

 And, it's grown right out of the top of the chiminea planter!

They say we got between 5-8 inches last week over several days...which was just so amazingly lovely and cool.  All of the plants in the garden said ahhhhh.  Today, I had to get out there and cover the greens garden back up...2 days without rain and full sun...everything was wilty.

Once again I missed the Garden Blogger's Bloom Day so I'll just put the list here...this is what's blooming right now in my yarden:

thyrallis

prairie verbena

blue mealy sage

purple trailing lantana

eggs n' butter

coral vine

butterfly bush

butterfly weed

red yucca

Patrick's abutilon

ice plant

David's cuphea

Autumn sage

Pride of Barbados

Greg's mistflower

shrimp plant

Mexican honeysuckle

asparagus fern

passionflower vine

datura (moonflower)

Turk's cap

purple cone flower

pigeon berry

tomato

sunflower

bulbine

silver cassia

plumbago

quince tree

crape myrtle
eggplant
orange esperanza
firecracker fern
rudbeckia
almond verbena
black and blue sage
chili petin
hymenoxis
rosemary

Post rain tally 39... a lot of this stuff wouldn't usually be blooming now.  The rain has been a blessing!

Happy Gardening!