In the month of Sept we had a surprising week of wonderful "rain all day long and everyday" kind of rain. It led to wonderful surprises in my backyard garden.
First off are my pear trees that I planted in August. Most of the leaves fell off due to plant shock. But during the rains it bloomed all of sudden from the bare branches. They didn't last long due to the returning high temperatures the following week. But it was still a nice surprise:
Then there were mushrooms popping up all over my gardens:
The small mini rosebush that disappeared under the mint plants, I thought it died away due to the scorching summer. The rains brought out new stalks and white roses peeking out above my peppermint plants. What a nice surprise:
The bougainvillea bush I had in the corner was nearly 5 feet high and 4 feet wide. Then the deep freeze in February nearly killed all of my plants in the backyard and killed the large tree in my front yard. The rains brought out tender new shoots from my bougainvillea bush! I left the rootball in the ground in hopes that it would grow and bloom again. It took 8 months for the rootball to heal, but here it is finally growing back:
Funny mushrooms sometimes starting merging together as they grew, into like one fat mushroom:
Also my lemon trees are coming back from the original trunk that was cut to the ground when it died in the February deep freeze. (not pictured) The one you see above is my grapefruit tree that survived.
My kids found a nice surprise hidden under the peppermint plants. They pushed them back and found 4 single mushrooms bigger than their hand! They are still there in the gardens:
My gardens are bringing tons of fat happy lizards everyday to a big feast. I rarely spray pesticides in my gardens so it turned into a major toad and lizard cafe in each raised garden bed. This lizard hitched a ride on my son back into the house:
And finally sometimes if we look beyond our gardens we will find an interesting cloud. This one was on a clear blue cloudless sky, except for this huge cloud merged from smaller clouds. My younger kids thought it was a tornado cloud:
September brought such nice surprises outside despite the lingering heat. What surprises have you found in your garden or backyard?
