What a blustery month this May has been. Twice this week we opened the front door to giant Sycamore limbs in the front yard. One just missed my car and took out an 8 ft. Cenzio and 3 Autumn Sages. I've had an idea for sculpting the remaining trunk but am waiting for a returned call from my arborist, I take it he's right busy. Anyway, this month's Garden Blogger Bloom Day finds the Govumpella yard with more fruit than flowers, seems April was the big bloom count.
May means the full revenge of the insects and I tried to catch bees, wasps, ants etc. etc. to help round out the senses. It's a buzzing, windy force outside.
The roses have wound down and most are suffering black spot and leaf drop...oh well.
Desert Rose is doing fine, this is her first blossom of the summer.
10 years ago I bought one of those coffee cans of Texas Wildflowers and raked it in the front space. The only flowers that still return are Indian Blanket and Larkspur.
I tried to capture a long shot of the hell-strip with it's yellow show, but the gray light didn't seem to help. There are poppies, hymenoxix, bulbine, yarrow, Gregg Dahlia, Lavender, Autumn Sage, Russian Sage, blooming Oregano, skullcap and red yucca all in show.
My very first post over two years ago was about the first blossom I'd gotten on my pride of Barbados. This year she's covered, and I never get tired of that spitting-streamer-party-wild face she has.
She's huge now, and has put out two babies near by.
Yarrow.
Yarrow, ice plant, lavender, Russian sage and lambs ear.
Heartleaf skullcap has taken over Sabra's lonely swing.
Majestic Sage
Blue Mealy Sage
The first year that Blanco did the Lavender Festival, loving spouse and I drove out and bought 10 plants. The names stayed in the ground for a few years but are now lost. I've got 3 varieties blooming and I don't know their name!
The sweet blossoms of lambs ear.
Pesky rabbits. The beginning of just a little bugly damage!
She's not doing any harm on this larkspur...just a little pollinating.
The swallowtail caterpillars are here! 
I put in 3 bronze fennel last year for my butterfly habitat and this year I have 7 volunteers. Last night however, 3 of these guys took out 2!
I caught this guy in the morning light...
And spouse got this shot a few hours later! This spider is a master camoflage artist, Misumena Vatia, on purple coneflower.
Squash alley.
Leave some for us!
The first pepper blossom!
The tomatoes are a coming!
We've got 10 that have survived, there were 13 originally.
The predictable Early Girl.
Tomato blossoms remind me of "Jazz Hands" or "Spirit Fingers!"
Oaxacan Stripe
Tuna!
The first of the Pineapple Guava blossoms, I'm still just stoked that this little shrub made it through the winter!
You can see the buglies if you enlarge this photo. These are the peaches on the island across the street at the CBC, we planted this tree two years ago in November!
Here's the bounty, unless the neighbors or passers by got some first!
First crop of Fuyu Persimmon!
The lone fig. This little guy died to the ground in the freeze so I'm surprised we even got one! My two fig trees are pass alongs from Skip Richter's propagation project of the giant 150 year old fig tree at Boggy Creek Farms.
Blackberries! I'm eating about 5 in the morning and then another 5 or so are ready by the time I get home from work in the afternoon. This year I'm hoping to propagate several more from the mommy plant!
Apricots, a few weeks back...for some reason I had a huge fruit drop, but some still remain.
Kumquat May.I know...bad pun, and it's a loquat...but this is the last one, and it was delicious...didn't even have to make jam. For more photos of blooming beauties in the month of May, go to Carol's blog May Dreams Gardens and check out the blog roll from around the globe!
Happy Gardening!
