Flower Explosion – What Happened

When we bought our house in August, there was a cute “little” green shrub here. About three weeks ago, Las Vegas experienced heavy rain. The beautiful flowers seen in this picture are a result of those rains. Notice how the flowers have spread over half of the entrance gate on the right and over some of the garage on the left. This is important because we moved to Las Vegas because I am allergic to trees, shrubs and many flowers.

The story gets better when we go pool side and learn that the beautiful flowers have taken over the back yard.

Sorry, that video got clipped a bit, but three minutes of watching the Dolphin seemed a bit excessive. Republishing with mifi is too painful to redo. Just use your imagination.

We have enjoyed the beauty of the flowers and shrubs and thinking of replacing them is sad. I shot the following video knowing that I may want to remember the beauty we had to replace.

Do you have any advice about pools and the surrounding pool area?

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  • http://twitter.com/saving4someday Sara Hawkins

    The yellow flowers look like Lantana. They are an invasive bush and just when you think you’ve killed it and gotten rid of it you’ll find more. Several years ago we had a big freeze here in Phoenix and I thought the Lantana had finally died. I dug it all up. To my surprise about 5 weeks later there were tiny flowers. They’re as bad as Beauganvilla.

    • dianebrogan

      It truly is beautiful, but very invasive. We plan to remove all of the flowers and decorate with rocks, statues, and non invasive, growing things. It sounds terrible, but I hope it works out : )