January 18 , 2018
Rustling Up Roses and Design Ideas
Methedrine skating , anyone ? In Austin , this is the closest we ’ll get , and only if you ’re hoot - sized!SO , does ice on flora protect them ? Nope : at least not in Central Texas gardens in our brief shut - down - the - city events . Daphne explains the cathartic behind ice formation .
Fortunately , in Texas , we do n’t have to protect roses , like ‘ Marie Pavie’ . Its sport , ‘ Marie Daly , ’ was yet another find made by intrepid plantsman Greg Grant , now stalk plants at Smith County Extension in Tyler .
That ’s one of the many delightful stories inThe Rose Rustlers , where once again Greg team up with former professor and post - graduate wise man William C. Welch , Professor and Extension Texas A&M AgriLife Extension horticulturist . Bill ’s been a favorite professor for many of us , thanks to his generous energy to guide our horticultural path . We were thrilled when he returned to KLRU with his inimitable quips and always fundamental philosophy . Bill rustles up a few story fromThe Rose Rustler’spersonable storiesabout how pioneers adorned newfound home plate with cuttings from darling roses . Many have go without care for tenner , remain nameless until curious horticulturists discovered , identified and propagated them for today ’s resourceful garden . One of Bill ’s finds is richly - imbue , fragrant ‘ Maggie , ’ list for his late married woman ’s granny who grew it in her Louisiana garden . InThe Rose Rustlers , Bill and Greg swap poignant and often humorous stories , give us the max on the birth ofMichael Shoup ’s The Antique Rose Emporium , and have us laughing about Greg ’s conversion from rosiness - hater to climb up rustler .
Check outHeirloom Gardening in the South , too , for horticultural history and cultivation tip of some of your garden stalwart . Greg peppers wit with sugared tales and household recipesto grow your food for thought garden in theTexas Fruit & Vegetable Gardening . Other keeper plants include native recurrent penstemons . Although they ’re called beardtongue , I think a more apt byname is “ bee tongue ” since bees screw them , as do hummingbirds and butterfly . Spring - blooming Brazos ( Gulf ) penstemon ( Penstemon tenuis ) handles my heavy soils , though it loves to reseed in moulder granite to attend out with winecup andCalylophus berlandieri . Note : the Calylophus does n’t love me back , so I ’ve leave up on it . Prairie penstemon ( Penstemon cobaea ) prefers lighter soil , though I have hazard with a few couple with whiteSalvia greggii . They like sun or at least sun part of the day . A close congenator is Hill Country penstemon ( Penstemon triflorus ) . I spotted this one in a Hyde Park curb garden with California poppy , bluebonnets , and succulent . After spring bloom , you may reduce the bloom stalks to the base . If you want them to re - seed , it can be late summertime before they ’re whole dried .
Get Daphne ’s baksheesh on acquire penstemons , including summertime - fall bloomingrock penstemonfor rocky soils and full sun . Frugal nurseryman tip of week : I stash 5 - gallon buckets in the shed for countless line . But I did n’t realise their rightful potential until Jeff Ferrisperformed magic prank with the least expensive toolyou’ve got!On tour , Syd Teague contribute together clever ideas , inheritance plant , aphrodisiacal succulents and artistic design . After reshape her flooding land with dry brook bed and nerve tract , she individualize each destination in her piss - thrifty , wildlife habitat . Always eager for new risky venture , she and husband Lary Evans now repose in Tucson . As much as they miss this garden , they ’re bear a blast shape a whole new position . Watch now for Syd ’s whole story !
Thanks for contain by and see you next hebdomad for gardens by Moon ! Linda
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