July 29 , 2015
To Wilt or Not to Wilt
hold it : we got cross for a few months there . Now we ’re back to droop reality . Here ’s my Mexican honeysuckle ( Justicia spicigera ) in late good afternoon when the sunlight briefly bump off . Back in shade twenty minutes later , it ’s already refreshed . By aurora , it ’s primed for another day to feed hummingbird , though efflorescence are most prolific in spring and spill . runt flora in the same layer does n’t get as much of a sun hit , though different light pattern bump off cockcrow and early evening . These never wilt , though my ‘ Rainbow ’ one - twelvemonth - olds still postulate a little redundant H2O . Also , the ‘ Rainbows ’ do n’t have as estimable a ground , so I ’ll be working on that when it cools off . I never had much destiny with Sparkler sedge ( Carex phyllocephala‘Sparkler ’ ) in that bed , until I make a motion one from too much tincture to a spot near the prawn plants that gets a piddling more light . The other was so woeful that I have a hazard and installed it in this container . Success ! correctly now , I ’m water it once a hebdomad . sodding little pappa of brightness .
In one of the hottest place in my garden , Hamelia patenswill handle drought and grueling heat just okay in a twain of years . decently now , it ’s barely three months in the ground as a 1 - gallon transplant , so needs a sound soakage every week . Sure , the stars at nighttime are big and bright deep in the nub of Texas ( unless you hold out in Ithiel Town ) , but early morning sun is a quite a little blistering . Here ’s a red-hot spot I pass every day on the agency to KLRU . I ’ve watched it grow up since it was planted a year ago . Silver ponyfoot , firecracker fern andAgave parryivar.truncataare serene even in the early hours when sun is aim right at them . I adopt that lots of good soil and a drip arrangement underlie its winner , though it ca n’t be watered too much or those century plant would protest . I have to look up to the tidy edging endure on here with sprawling silver ponyfoot . Note : this is not something you ’ll find in my insane garden ! Just the same , I whoop it up in it . A retama gracefully refreshes this piffling curb strip and to offer scant shade on the way to the door . I’m a cheerleader for groundcover cobweb spiderwort ( Tradescantia sillamontana ) . Supposedly one for shade , this one accepts hot sun in afternoon without a whine . It even flower in December ! Like other Tradescantias , it can freeze down back , but always returns . Perhaps my all - time favorite isDicliptera suberecta . It can take part shade or spells of brutal sun . I ’ve got it throughout my garden since I love those silvern leafage and the orange flowers that hummingbirds and butterflies like , too . And what a surprisal ! I just divided this crinum two days ago . It shot up with the rain this bounce and opened its first blooms ever on Sunday aurora . My ‘ John Fanick’Phlox paniculatafinally bugger off into gear in July . Near my berth , these phlox handle the street and sidewalk heat with relaxation . The artemisias did n’t crater in the rainwater , as mine did . But these are really deep layer with lots of dear soil . In June , we taped the Warrior and Family Support garden at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio . The ‘ John Fanick ’ phlox establish by theGardening Volunteers of South Texaswas already resplendent!Across the street from KLRU , the newfangled gardens at the Belo Center for New Media Texas ( designed bylandscape architect Christy Ten Eyck ) are made in the shade thanks to airy Texas mesquite ( Prosopis glandulosa).Students reaching for stirring just might find it gazing at the elegant germ pod . In spring , we ’re all awhirl over mountain laurels . In summertime , Pride of Barbados ( Caesalpinia pulcherrima)is the bee ’s knees . Thanks for stopping by ! See you next workweek , Linda
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