A while back, Annie at the Transplantable Rose wrote and requested pictures of the plants in the yard, she is an expert gardener here in
My agent thinks this is a peach tree. 
I know that this one is rosemary. I just had to show my mom how big they get here! 
And this one is a Mountain Laurel. 
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
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Man, do I have alot of work to do next week!!! We need a weed wacker too.
Mom
Hi Austin Girl,
Congratulations on your new home! The stone is great, and I love the purple French doors. Plus the inside looks like a good place for a party:)One that could flow out to the deck!
I'm not an expert, just a demented-with-plants amateur, but in addition to the enviable Mountain Laurels [they take a long time to get going] and the probable Peach, there's a Cenizo [small gray leaves] and maybe a Vitex tree, the one with the leaves just starting to appear. I think you have an Agave in the first photo, and a helluva lot of weeds, including Beggars ticks. Pink fluffy flower might be reseeded Bachelor Buttons?
The Rosemary is huge. I think that's Ligustrum by the chainlink fence, but I've never had any... just guessing. The one with the white car has iris leaves at left - looks like a big shrub rose with the smaller reddish leaves. The last one could possibly be a live oak jammed up close to the house.
It's early in the season - as leaves appear on branches you can tell more and maybe some little perennials will appear out of that mess of dandelions and weeds.
Thanks for letting me play the Identification Game - but your mom is right about the weeds!
I hope you're reading Pam Penick's Austin Garden blog called Digging. She's a garden designer and is the REAL expert.
http://www.penick.net/digging
Annie at the Transplantable Rose
Way tog.....welcome to the club! Nothing change your life as much as a first home....unless maybe it's a b....! But b....'s can't be sold!
I'll send my gardener down.....looks like tilling, fertilizer, seed, and 6 weeks of watering should do it.
Yay!!!!!!!!
tooo
Something in me tells me mom is pinching you for calling her "your gardener"....
Thanks
I am too excited! Annie is right about the Agave plant, and the Mountain Laurels. Hang on to them! Native and perfect for your no-maintenence yard.
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