Growth
Posted by Pete Mueller | Jul 06, 2011
Now that the persistent heat of summer is here, a subtle change is taking place in my yard and garden. Plants that just a month ago were enjoying the warmth of the sun have decided they’ve had too much of a good thing; they are now either dormant or dying. In surveying my front beds, I notice that the last of my petunia plants (that I paid good money for!) are preparing to surrender to the withering fire of the long Austin afternoons.
While flowers like these determine to call it quits, I find another group of plants, however, …
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