Garden Porn gone wrong

More drafts dug up for your enjoyment. Or my laziness. Or my not wanting to waste the time and effort I put into taking the pictures, uploading them and then doing a little writing.Hibiscus
I call this my Charlie brown Hibiscus. The one on the left dropped all of it's leaves last year. All. I thought it might be too hot but the other one gets more sun and it was bushy and full and beautiful. Now this year, the second one did the same thing. WHAT UP???

Bay Leaf

This is a bay leaf bush. Or rather a bay leaf twig. Here's the story. I've bought Bay leaf plants off and on for years. I get to keep them maybe a month before they give up the ghost and look like this. So I give them to my mother. Where they become bushy and huge and supply her and me with more bay leaves than we can possible use in a life time. Moms bay is so overgrown that we decided we'd try to get a plant off it. You know, get the shovel, take a sucker off, no problem. BIG PROBLEM. BIG. The thing was so attached that mom grabbed a hatchet. And then proceeded to try to remove the sucker from the main plant nearly removing my arm as well. Oh it was good times. Then I get the sucker home, plant it all nice in a pot, where it proceeds to die a quick and hopefully painless death. I've trimmed it way way back and I'll continue to water the stump all summer. (note: I do not keep it all summer)

I doubt much will come of it, but you never know. (except now you do)