November 10 , 2011
Planting for the future + Pecan trees + How Not to Kill a Tree, Pt. 2
Gardening is all about planning ahead . When industrial plant are midget , sometimes it ’s backbreaking to imagine if things will really figure out out like you hope . I feared that drought would vote down one of my vision : ‘ Country Girl ’ mums with native aster . Guess they had a talk and check not to let me down .
Patience is essential , too . I lean to corrupt small plant to protract my budget , so it can be a few years before my vision hits reality . I moved some of my young nativePlumbago scandenslate last spring . With the onset of estrus and no rainfall , they were ho-hum to rally .
But they did ! The nip last hebdomad plow some leaves to delicious purple , all the honorable to show off their sweet flowers . By this prison term next year , they ’ll tap my socks off !
Right now is an splendid sentence to plan forrader with planting . Last weekend , I become in some wild flower seeds ( more to do this weekend ) , along with more lettuce , arugula , and radishes to join the parsley transplantation already in . The bunny rabbit anxiously await the parsley along with homegrown cilantro . But since I seed Chinese parsley , they ’ve beget to wrangle their petty resourcefulness for a few more workweek . The cool weather has them growing like gangbusters !
Patience is a utilitarian quality to have in storewhen awaiting the proceeds of Heartleaf helmetflower ( genus Scutellaria ovata ) . Mine have n’t yet returned , but while digging in that area , I unearthed their rhizomes .
I use up this chance to spread out their bounty to a few other areas . One cause I was apprehend was to add a novel stout white gloxinia ( Sinningialongituba ) .
I examine one in the crepe bed a few eld ago and like the answer ! This one has a genus Tuber that looks like a potato ! It runs around like Heartleaf , but go inactive in winter . My sight is Heartleaf from recent gloaming to June , and Hardy white gloxinia until freeze .
Here ’s another imaginativeness I have in creative thinker : Daphne ’s choice of the week , native Texas poinsettia ( Euphorbia cyathophora ) .
I saw it in a garden a few old age ago , but calculate this gardener had a magic touch that I surely do n’t have . By golly , Daphne reports that this one , also bed as “ fire on the mountain ” , did great in the Extension Office demonstration garden all summertime with just one irrigation a week . It ’s an annual , but re - seeded player with abandon . I ’m get this one !
It really take some visual sense when selecting and planting trees . Since our state tree diagram , the pecan , is a courteous tad tree diagram that rewards us with delicious food , this week Tom and Lisa BerdollfromBerdoll Pecan Farmgo nut about pecan trees !
Lisa ’s got bakshish for the effective miscellany , how to plant , and how to care for them in extreme drought . She ought to know how to do this rightfield , since she and her husband Hal have been train hundreds of Acre of pecan tree in Cedar Creek since 1980 .
How many times have you been on the way to Bastrop and wanted to stop in and see Ms. Pearl the Squirrel ?
Not only can you buy a render - and - straight pecan tree of your own , you could nibble up some of the Berdoll ’s own delicious pecans and treat in the retail store , now have by daughter Jennifer Berdoll Wammack and her husband Jared , with sis - in - constabulary Brandi Berdoll as handler .
What great vacation presents , huh ? I just tell some and they arrived in two day , so I did n’t have to be too patient about that !
Trees are very patient with us , but our mistakes can tug their longanimity to the limits . Just about the time they seize our vision , they can pop off , thanks to us . This week , Trisha continues “ How Not To Kill a Tree”with a focus on maintenance mistake . One is a coarse disease called “ weedeateritis ” . Wanna kill a tree ? Whack the sore barque with a drawstring trimmer or a lawn lawn mower .
Instead , mulch far around your trees and mulch . For one thing , that contain in soil moisture . For another , the barrier protects the bark from zealous edgers . But , do n’t volcano mulch ! Some landscapers like to do this , and Trisha nabbed a perfect example .
It shoot down us ( and your Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree ) that gardeners see this in public areas and adjudicate it ’s the right affair to do . Really , whatever started this ? NEVER EVER pile mulch against a tree ’s trunk . Leave it candid to gentle wind and light source .
Do n’t let English ivy or Asian jasmine climb up up your trees , either . Not a good thing to do at all . Clip it and let it die before you pull out it off so you do n’t further harm the barque . For certain , do n’t use herbicides around your trees !
Patience is not a good quality when it come to weeds . Pluck ‘ em now , or scream later . There are some that are downright bloodsucking , like dodder , that ’s latch onto Diane Hanna ’s potted firecracker fern . I ’ve never seen this before !
But Daphne has!She notes : “ Dodder invades the tissue paper of the server plant and steals its nutrient to grow . It has very picayune chlorophyl , so it usually is n’t unripe . It can range in color from pale whitish - brown to bright orange , and when you first see it , you ’ll wonder if someone has n’t covered your plants in cockamamy string . ”
This dodder credibly came along with Diane ’s plant life . Since it ’s on a missionary work to reseed all over the office , it ’s important to absent it immediately . Diane will also involve to make out off any parts of the flora that it ’s occupy . Get Daphne ’s unadulterated answer , and thanks , Diane !
On go , feed your eyes on this edible garden !
A once dour side , now a garden gracefully aim water to terraces of fruit , vegetables , herbs and ornamentals . To create an edible garden that also pull wildlife , Suzanne and John Shore work with Rosemary Vincent and Kellan Vincent ofVincent Landscapes , Inc.
Until next week , Linda
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