"To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.”

So said Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993). British actress, model, fashion icon, dancer and humanitarian. And apparently, a gardener. Just not this garden, which was the fruit of this writer's labor, in Leon County, Texas, between 2000-2007.

Gallardia, Blanket Flower to the left of this garden path

Bottle tree. "'holding glass up to the light,
where it can sing'." Jenny Pickford
Some history on bottle trees from Felder Rushing
https://www.felderrushing.net/HistoryofBottleTrees.htm

Bottlebrush, Callistemon

Italian stone fruit,
first half of 20th century.
Looks good enough to eat!

Echinacea, known by common name coneflower

Garden stone. Inlayed broken pottery. Made by the writer.