Desert landscaping...

Desert landscaping is much more colorful than I expected. This is, of course, due to the invention of the drip watering system. That and deep wells that drain our aquifers quickly. When we moved in two months ago, our landscaping contained many colorful bushes and flowers. Over the past two months, I have really enjoyed watching new plants start to bloom while the summer ones have faded. Here are the current flowers we have. First, a really lovely evergreen style bush with vibrant blue flowers. I have no idea what it is called, but it just started blooming the other day and I really like it.



This is a view of part of the east side yard. The red flowers have been blooming since the day we first saw the house in June. That's over three months ago. I should go check to make sure they're not plastic. That would be a good trick...



One of my personal favorite flowering plants is this tall pink one. Again, no idea what it is called. This is sort of a theme in my gardening knowledge. It's called no clue. I took a bunch of pictures last weekend and I plan to bring them to the Albuqurque Gardening Center in the near future. I was told that the master gardeners there will take pity on a garden idiot such as myself and tell me what my plants are and how to care for them. Wouldn't that be nice?



One of the only plants I can identify is rosemary, and we have a huge bush of it! I didn't even know rosemary grew like this. I think it stays green all winter, so we'll have plenty of rosemary to make stuffing at Thanksgiving, seasoning for pork chops, rosemary biscuits, and anything else I can find that includes rosemary. Now if only I had a basil bush, or dill tree.



These pink flowers just showed up a few days ago. The leaves are really thick and pliable, which makes me think this is some type of succulent, distantly related to the cactuses that grow all over the place in New Mexico. It doesn't smell, but it is quite pretty.



Stay tuned for more garden updates as the season progresses...