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Monday, July 6, 2026

I Think I Suceeded!


This little beauty is growing in my rock garden. OK, it's not too beautiful, but I'm pretty happy to see it.


This is the weed native plant I've been trying to get to seed itself in the rock garden, Bigbract Verbena. You might recall that I first identified it in 2106 growing along the shoulder of the road. Then it disappeared for a few years.
bigbract verbena


Then I decided I wanted to try to get some started in the rock garden. But it's an annual so I need seeds. Thought maybe I got those last year.
dead bigbract verbena


And, I am prety sure that I have some growing!

I showed you the tiny flowers last week, but we'll have to wait and see if it really develops those runners with the bracts all around.

bigbract verbena

I didn't get a lot done today becuase I still had people here for a while, and then others came later. Got in some garden time, but not much in the way of computer work.

Also, annoyingly, Google has changed the links to older blog pix, so almost every place where I showed an older photo on the blog for a second time to illustrate some point, the link is now broken.

I forgot somewhere I was supposed to be this morning. Hoping I'll be more with it tomorrow.

See Tiny Flowers

4 comments:

Ann said...

I hope this plant does what you were hoping it would.

Sharkbytes said...

Ann- me too!

The Oceanside Animals said...

Java Bean: "Ayyy, if you didn't want the weed to grow, it would be all over the place! But since you do want the weed to grow, it has to give you a hard time."
Lulu: "Our Dada says that business with the Google links reminds him of when Photobucket broke all of their photo sharing unless you started paying them for a service they had promised would be free. You just can't trust corporate America sometimes apparently ..."

Sharkbytes said...

Lulu- Dada knows!