The most amazing flower that I ever did see. And the Fritillaries! I'm hoping for an infestation of caterpillars like I've had in the past, we'll see. Maybe I've allowed too many wasps to thrive.
This used to be a hellscape with 7 foot tall weeds. I pulled up all the weeds and added more rocks, thinking that was the solution. Lo and behold, the weeds returned as if the rocks were fertilizer rather than a suppressant. Thanks to time spent on r/austingardening, I knew what had to be done. I cleared all the weeds once more, and went to far south wholesale nursery in search of natives and native ground covers. I added 4 nerve daisy, blackfoot daisy, silver ponyfoot, wooly (woody?) stemodia, frogfruit, gregg's mistflower, diamanita, a spaghetti agave, and a quadricolor agave. These complemented the existing spanish dagger yucca and red yuccas which I had planted the year prior after another weeding/clearing spree. I added a passionflower vine to climb the mailbox because those are probably the coolest flowers ever. I also sprinkled in a few prickly pear cactus pads, and those are pushing new growth this year!
Long story short, I learned that unless you have ground covers, you will get weeds. and the best groundcovers are the native ones. I have not had to pull a single weed from the hellstrip in over a year (slight exaggeration, but honestly not by much). The hellstrip takes care of itself, with a lot of help from the stemodia and the frogfruit. I have also not had to water it once since last summer, when I was watering occasionally just to help the baby natives get established.
I love seeing the frogfruit sprawling and stretching out and covering as much of the sidewalk as it can. The hummingbirds love the red yucca. The butterflies and the bees and tons of other insects absolutely love the constant blooms (seriously, does blackfoot daisy ever stop blooming?) and the frogfruit blanket.
Some pics are a couple weeks old, when the Spanish dagger Yucca was blooming, before the frontyard wildflower meadow really took off.