Texas Gardening: Gardening with Texas Native plants & Wildflowers. Part 4, 1 by frostweed

frostweed wrote:
Veronica, that is a lovely picture of a pink Winecup, I had never seen one.
Don't be afraid of planting your Fig trees in the ground, I have a Texas brown turkey, tha is about 30 years old. It has lived through very low temperatures, I beleive as low as five above 0.
It has died to the ground on those years when it went below 20, at least 3 times, but allways came back.
Here is a picture from two years ago, when we had a good snow fall, it didn't hurt it one bit.
It is about 20 feet tall with many trunks, we love the fruit, but the last two years the squirrels and the birds have eaten it before it ripens. We are considering trapping the squirrels and taking them to Veterans park, we shall see.