Texas Gardening: Gardening with Texas Native Plants & Wildflowers, part 11., 0 by konkreteblond

konkreteblond wrote:
Summer has already kept me constantly busy so I'm skimming but want to join in ...love the Gaillardia! Everyone else does it, so I'll shamelessly beg for seeds too. :) (but I'll probably forget)

Love skullcap but mine was apparently an annual...found a lone Turk's Cap (yay!) when I cut down a hollyhock...thought they needed shade tho so I haven't tried more...

I have 3 huge sunflowers that are gifts from birds. They have small flowers on them so I think they are like Josephine's with the brown center. One is over 6ft already. The undersides of the leaves are covered in aphids and other crawlies but the ladybugs LOVE these plants so I've left them for them too.

Josephine, I am cutting back some of my Queen Anne's Lace that has finally stopped producing large flowers and have noticed powdery mildew on them. They are definitely not overwatered, so they must be a plant that gets it if underwatered? The purple salvias will do that. I do have to overheard water a lot tho which doesn't help them. Got the soaker hoses going now because for them do water enough to make a difference I have to let them go for hours. I don't want to see my water bill but don't want my plants to die either!

It's a little blurry (am having a battle with my macro) but isn't she a beautiful ladybug!