June 4 , 2009
From the producer: 7 January 2025
Even the bird feed sunflowers say , “ It ’s hot ! ”
So , now ’s the fourth dimension to go places , like Idaho . If you ca n’t swing that this weekend , check out theMueller Parade of Homes tour , featuring five green - build rest home in the new maturation at the old airdrome . Bring your checkbook in case you want to make a down requital on a million clam house . Despite their price tags , it ’s just too much playfulness , with lots of energy - wise and pattern musical theme to keep you cool , helpful people to answer your question about green construction , and a luck to check out the most amazing kitchens , bathrooms , floors , and window . Drool drool . But after I slather myself off , I lent a keen eye to the garden designs . Many of them include clopping bamboo as privacy barriers and for the unobjectionable , elegant lines .
And what a concurrence ! This week on CTG , Tom meets with Merrideth Jiles fromThe gravid Outdoorson that very matter : clumping bamboo . I never pull in how many there are , for every program , include this diminutive version , Bambusa multiplex‘Tiny Fern ’ .
In case you ’ve never been to the Nimitz Garden of Peace atThe National Museum of the Pacific War , tally out our garden turn to Fredericksburg . It ’s soothing and comforting even in the heat , a chance to link up with significant history , and for gardeners , to treasure a fine - tuned garden that you do n’t have to observe !
My garden will never be that clean and refined . It is soothing , though , especially after midnight , these days ! But in the heat of day , I love one of my past experimentation , Mexican flaming vine , Senecio confuses .
I ’d get a line back and forth on its cold hardiness , but it ’s been around for me for years . Last year it took a drought happy chance and I thought I ’d lost it , but it ’s back .
On orange , the flaming acanthus ( Anisacanthus wrightii ) is already at work in the cat cove and gay side beds . The shaded ace have yet to blossom .
In cooler spots , like under the French pancake Vinca minor , I be intimate the coneflower against ‘ Powis Castle ’ artemesia .
Here ’s one I like for its spidery sort .
And another with something that looks like a wanderer , but I do n’t get laid what it is . If you do , I ’d love to know !
Under the Chinese pistache in back , plumbago is bloom along with the shrimp plants .
AndSalvia coccinea .
Last weekend on rationalize job , I deadheaded the blooming mums and coreopsis to keep the flowers coming . I could n’t stand collecting coreopsis seeds , and bewilder such a kick watching them spill out into a box as I squished the fat seminal fluid head . I ’ll leave them in the box to dry until this weekend . Then I ’ll bulge them up . I bag up the dried larkspur seed and poppy seed , actually remembering to mark them this metre !
I finally bewilder around to digging wayward eatage around the Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree and mulch them , a nice clean look that ’s unspoilt for the trees , too . Rose dead heading continues , with the cutting going into a hoop for the bunny girl ’ dinner party . Daylily scapes and embrown medulla oblongata foliage go into the compost pile . As a nurseryman once told me , “ A light garden is a healthy garden . ”
With my new discovery of plumerias , I was thrilled that KLRU ’s new senior VP for Development , Betsy Gerdeman , shared this motion-picture show of hers . On December 26 , she took a cutting from her aunt ’s mansion in Rockport and stuck it in a pot . see at it now !
Finally : a question to you . A viewer has a Gerber daisy given to her by a very peculiar soul . What ’s the secret to keeping them alive in Central Texas ?
Oh , and from last week ’s post , a destiny of multitude thought myHymenocalliswas a daylily . Those areHemerocallis . Too many “ h ” words here ! Anyway , Hymenocallis are medulla oblongata that typically bloom in summertime ( or so I ’ve heard ) , though my Sulphur Queen got a jump on things .
Until next hebdomad , Linda
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