Yeah, even here it dies back to the ground in winter.
I feel like central Tx is a month ahead of most the rest of the country. That is the second bloom for the roses, there was even more in early May when the bushes had their first flush. Now we are in the part of the year when it gets too hot for pollination in our food garden. Though oddly not the sunflowers. They seem to set seed just fine
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A dump of photos
Flowers first, some native succulents, some flowers in a pot, the name I cannot remember, and some scabius we “liberated”, it grows all over the place here.
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My echinaceas look mostly like this…
… thanks to these guys:
The bunbuns have also eaten the Black-eyed Susans and the tiger lilies 
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I have the same issue. The critters mowed them down earlier but gave up after a while
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Wait. Bunnies eat Echinacea? Kinda miraculous we got 3 separate plants to flower this year!
This is my latest attempt to provide enough water for the buns to stop nipping irrigation lines. It was full this morning. Bone dry by the time I got home. I need to figure out somewhere shadier for the bowl, I think.
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They do in my yard. I wish they’d eat the spiderwort and the day lilies and leave the echinacea alone. I am surprised about them eating the tiger lilies; I assumed they were toxic like most lilies.
We’ve had an explosion in the bunny population this year because a neighbor took the semi-feral neighborhood cat that kept them (and the chipmunks) in check to the shelter late last summer. I hope he’s keeping someone’s barn free of rodents. The coyotes that live along the bluff are not taking up the slack.
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Well, maybe evaporation is not the reason. I filled it up yesterday a hour before sunset and it was empty this morning. I wonder if something bigger is drinking it. I saw either a fox or a small coyote with a really bushy tail next door a month ago. There were also two bunnies under the rose bushes. So maybe the entire neighborhood of buns is visiting?
I’ll just keep refilling it when the drip system doesn’t. We haven’t had rain in weeks and May was unusually dry. 
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My ficus is growing so fast it’s about to topple over! even with a stake
I’m not really sure what to do with it. I guess I could prune it back. It seems like the wrong time of year to do that, though
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Coneflowers in full bloom. Plants are easily over three feet tall
Plus a hydrangea in the background
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awesome! looks like the “Fleming Girl” var. i love those!
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Came home to discover that my messy aloe took a dive off the table.
I guess that solves that problem.
Or of course, triffids, but thats a different problem.
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