Early June 2022 and the heat is in the “triple digits”as the meteorologists like to say in TV-land. or 39 ° Celsius, as we were told we would have converted to 50 or more years ago. Either system, hot to humans is hot.

But to native plants that evolved in Central Texas for more years than Crepe Myrtle has been here, even these signs of Global Warming haven’t phased them. (Granted, I do some supplemental watering, especially of small trees for the first few years, but other plants like Passiflora incarnata grow like “weeds”).

I’ll  let the plants speak for themselves:

Clematis drummondi – Old Man’s Beard

Pavonia lasiopetala – rose pavonia

Malpighia glabra – Barbados Cherry

unknown flower at WFC

Malvavisus arboreus – Manzanilla

Allium drummondii – Wild Garlic

LILI Nothoscordum bivalve – Crow-Poison

Hylephila phyleus (male) – Fiery Skipper on Fall Aster

Echinacea purpurea – Purple Coneflowewr

Aster subulatus possibly

Clematis drummondi – Old Man’s Beard

white flower 10-29-2012

Malvaviscus arboreus – Turks Cap

Those are just the photos I took on June 8, 2022, mostly in my yard. The Rain Lilies were just past the back fence (the ones in my yard had bloomed and gone to seed after the previous week’s mild spattering of rain drops).

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