The Lindheimer Senna has started focusing on seed pods. The yellow blossoms, after having added reliable yellow color to the yard throughout the blistering days of Central Texas summer, are now gone. But they are certain to return next year.
As summer begins to think about winding down, I’ve stopped dead-heading the Cowpen Daisies. The front yard is still full of their yellowness, but gradually those blossoms are going to seed in such profusion that there will be plenty to collect and share and plant along the Chemistry Wing at the high school.
This year, we’ve had success with the Esperanza/Yellow Bells on the (scorchingly hot) south side of the house. We’ve left a slow drip hose on them when watering elsewhere in the yard on our weekly watering day, and yellow bells have reliably hung from the plant for most of the summer despite the mauling they took from the construction crew installing the new siding.
And we come now to the star of the early fall — Golden Eye. Ever since Bill down the street brought us some bare-root plants many years ago, these shockingly hardy natives have reliably pushed out a profusion of yellow every October. They grown to about six feet tall in places, and to get to the outside faucet these days, you must push your way thru a thicket of them, with bees buzzing all around.
