tackling the long list and a new flower

More yard work Friday. I emptied the garden cart and truck on the burnpile and torched it as a burn ban goes into effect on Monday. Then I took the now empty garden cart and went around the yard picking up all the pots that were laying around, some empty, some with dirt but the little plant died, some broken. I repotted and staked up two dragon fruit plants that grew a lot this year, moved the clump of iris that Joanne of Cup On The Bus sent me to a sunnier spot, planted the bearded iris bulbs? rhizomes? that I bought this spring that have summered over in pots in the same area, pulled up the last of the zinnias, watched two hummingbirds on the porterweed. Then I walked the dog and came in and fixed dinner...smothered steak, mashed potatoes, green beans.

Saturday I went to the Farmer's Market and bought some egg noodles and some velvet okra. The people I buy honey from weren't there and the woman who sells microgreens had just sold her last two containers so two of the things I wanted I didn't get. Then I stopped at the feed store for some lobelia, marigolds, and a new bird feeder but all they had was a little one. Then I stopped at Tractor Supply for what is supposed to be a squirrel proof hood that you hang your bird feeder from.

See the little perch sticking out from the bottom? I added that and one on the other side yesterday after watching a male cardinal try and get at the bird feeder. He would fly at it and then flutter in front and fly back to the photinia. I figured the perching area was too small for him so we'll see if he has better luck today.

Then I repotted a succulent cactus, 3 small pots of begonias into one, and a couple of plumerias. 

Speaking of plumerias, one of my light pink with a yellow throat makes seeds every year and my sister Pam sprouted one and it grew. Apparently plumerias don't seed true to the parent or they crossbreed because the one she grew bloomed this year...small white flowers with a yellow throat.

So maybe it's a cross between the pink 

and the white bridal bouquet plumeria about 6' away. 

The flowers on the new plumeria similar, rounded petals instead of pointed, to the bridal bouquet plumeria with the spade shaped leaves and thin stalks that grow upright but with more yellow in the throat but the plant itself grows like the pink, thick stalks that spread out with tapered leaves.

Then I dug up and moved some clumps of day lily from the middle of a flower bed to the outside edge, watered everything in, walked the dog and called it a day.

More work out in the yard today. I need to mix more dirt and compost, pot the lobelia and plant the marigolds, weed a section of flower bed, spread out some mulch, re repot a plumeria from yesterday into an even bigger pot, dig up the white butterfly ginger and find a better place for it, divide the bird of paradise and plant half in the ground, plant the bougainvillea in the ground, treat the camellia for whitefly, caulk the seams in the gutters. I won't get it all done of course, it's just my running list.

The cooler weather has perked things up so I'll leave you with flowers. The confederate rose is blooming,

the first flower

as is the yellow bells. I watched a bumble bee going from flower to flower

which is what inspired this piece several years ago.

And the white philippine lily.