More Rain, More Damage to the Sunflowers

Another set of rain storms, more damage to the canyon sunflowers. The first time they drowned; this time they keeled over.




I've spent the last three months fretting over my desert willow. It lost all its leaves in November and now looks completely dead.

The twigs and branches looked dead, dried, and lifeless. However, the guides all say this is normal, particularly the first winter, and that it will resurrect itself in the spring, and then bloom wonderfully all summer.

The wild flowers at its base are doing quite well.


Meanwhile, almost all my bulbs have begun to sprout.


The wildflower gardens are coming along nicely. This is a California poppy:


The coral bells on the east side of the front yard have finally begun to bloom. I worried that they may have been too affected by the floods of December.


They're still nothing like the coral bells on west side, but maybe they'll catch up.