Garden Bloggers Bloom Day - 10/2012

Am uber-busy and out of town, but here's some scenes evocative of fall in ABQ. Enjoy...still not a total wash for us, given the severe drought...perhaps the start of a mega-drought?

Thanks Carol of May Dreams Gardens for some fall flower power, and join in the fun - here

Turpentine Bush / Ericameria laricifolia 'Aguirre'

Desert Marigold

That's Baileya multiradiata, by the way...not native north of Central NM, to my knowledge.

Pink-red Autumn Sage / Salvia greggii...and a yellow wall. Yellows and golds abound in NM.

Dahlberg Daisy / Thymophylla tenuiloba - more yellow

All 9 of my 9 Oxblood Lily bulbs have emerged with fresh foliage. Too bad I will probably not be here
to see them bloom the following fall... They will be red, but you might not guess that now.

Back to yellow - Yellow Bells / Tecoma stans (called Esperanza further east, and Arizona Yellow Bells to the west) - switching to zone 8 in El Paso

Sorry, but more gold on the hills...

One likely source of those golden hills is Threadleaf Snakeweed / Gutierrezia microcephala they say

Finally - purple! Black Dalea / Dalea frutescens 'Sierra Nigra'

Bees are all right...don't complain about them in the garden, then go eco-sophisto and complain about them dying off in the wild.....

Portulaca...oh yeah!