Texas Gardening: Gardening with Texas Native Plants & Wildflowers, part 11., 1 by dmj1218

dmj1218 wrote:
Mitch--I hope my monarda blooms soon. I grew 'Croftway Pink' seeds over the winter here so it may be next year for bloom on them. Regardless, they look really good in a pot with native columbine ('hinckley's Yellow'). The texture differences are very nice together in a large pot.

One thing that is doing very well is my Pavonia lasiopetala--Rock Rose. I have had terrible luck growing this from seed even though I can usually get rocks to sprout. I was really worried about it in this pot when we had all the rain--I ran out there between downpours and basically tipped the pot on its side to get water out because it wasn't draining well. Tonight I hope to get out there and mulch the top of the pot. I'm hoping it produces viable seeds so I can get enough of thses plants for the garden beds.