Garden Pictures

So, my friend Judy inspired me to take some pictures of my garden....nothing really interesting yet - kind of raggedly looking....but what I enjoy more than my plants are my little green lizards...anoles are their names. You can read about them here. This afternoon I went outside and this little guy was sitting on a palm frawn. I noticed he was eating something....looked like a wet paper town piece. Then I noticed he was pulling his skin off of his foot and eating it. He let me stand right next to him and watch. He was molting and kind of wet....so he was sunning himself and eating his skin...I know, gross...but it was interesting.
Here he has a piece of skin in his mouth. I went in an got my camera and the more pictures I took, the closer he came. Terry was mowing the lawn and he would lift his head and look around me and watch Terry mowing.

My garden is full of these little guys and when I plant, I usually find their eggs. Then we wait for the babies to come up and hang out in the plants...they are adorable.

These lizards have quite the personality. They are very aware of their surroundings and get used to people that are suppose to be around. When my little nephews visited last summer, those poor lizards were running for their lives.

I know....lots of pictures. But, I couldn't decide which ones to post....so I posted them all.

Now on to the plants....To start with, this is my little Sago Palm nursery. Each year when we cut the old prawns off our Sago Palm, I can't stand to throw out the little pods growing on the side....so I stick them in old pots with leftover dirt. No scientific way of doing it, I just pretty much throw them in and then set the pots on the side of the house, behind the fence. By the end of the summer, I have several small palms. I basically give them away, I don't have anywhere else to plant one. So, if you need a palm...let me know. Those of you up North, they are fun to grow....you can put them in a pot and bring them in, in the winter. My Mom loves watching them grow.

The rest of these plants are ones that have already come up on their own, or never left over the winter.

Geranium - I bought this at the end of last season, on clearance for .50 cents...I couldn't stand to see it sitting there on the rack dying. It is thriving with several buds.

This is a pencil plant, I bought a cutting at a garage sale and it is fun to watch grow....I need to stake it.

This is a bad picture of my Hens and Chickens....I brought them from Mom and Dad's house when they moved....she had several pots and was going to leave them at their old house. They love the Louisiana weather.

A nice little begonia that starting blooming early.

This is a giant Mum that I can't kill....not that I am trying...but I can't tell you how many times I cut it back because it gets so big. It blooms in the spring...I cut it back....it blooms in the summer...I cut it back....then in the Fall it is huge and full of blooms.

Impatience...I think

This is my Hydrangea...I planted two last summer. I didn't cut them back until January, because they were still full of leaves...I really don't know what I am doing, but they are sprouting again.

Okay, so it's not a beautiful garden journal - but it's something...enjoy!