I love Fall the best for gardening in Texas. Plants renew their color from the summer heat and bloom their heads off as if to really prove something to the world! My roses are not in the same boat. I forgot to groom and fertilize them back in August. So, since the weather is a bit cooler I think I will give them a light clean up and a dose of Hasta Grow and see what happens. This product is great for flower and fruit production and usually gets things back on the right track. But right now the color in my garden is from other wonders such as Coral Vine (Antigonon leptopus), a honey bee & butterfly magnet, that loved the big dose of rain we got earlier this month.

I also love my Perennial Morning Glory (Ipomomea Indicia) which is also in full glory and was blooming this evening at the same time I was taking photos of the Coral Vine. This summer when we had very little rain it looked like we had lost it for good but just as soon as the rains started up again it came back and is even climbing into my art studio...under the door! You know they say... never turn your back on a Morning Glory!

Then there are the many colors of Autumn Sage (Salvia Greggii) which is really putting on a show. I have at least 4 colors right now and want more. This is a Humming Bird favorite. Most mornings when I come out of our little guest house the hummers buzz by to great me. The Fall Aster (Aster oblongifolius) has just popped and I expect lots of butterflies will soon stop by to enjoy those too. They add a lovely shade of Blue/Purple to the garden and are very drought tolerant. We usually get a good crop of them along the creeks around here as well and the Sulphur butterflies just love them! Now if we can just the temperatures down into the 70s we would all be happy campers!