Texas Gardening: chrysanthemums, 1 by crowellli

crowellli wrote:
Shuggins, the low growing white plant is allysum. It is a cool weather annual here. It will start to struggle as soon as the temps heat up and the sun gets more intense. It doesn't show there, but I put in a huge amount of daylilies and then just kind of stuffed the allysum in between so I could have some color until the daylilies can get started.

Ann, the blue in between is lobelia. I have some of the pink/purple allysum too, but the white seems much more vigorous. That salvia is either Mystic Spires or Indigo Spires and is very well behaved. I'm still pulling out sprouts of that Black & Blue one. Devil plant is what it should have been called!

I've spent most of the morning digging out nut grass, planting a flat of impatiens, planted 4 tomato plants and trimmed back the flame vine and duranta. That duranta is too happy where it is. It'd take over the world if I didn't chop it back pretty often. I'm waiting another week or so to put in my butterbeans. The bed the tomatoes and bearns are in will also have some herbs and flowers.

Here's my first bloom to open on my LA iris. I have some yellow ones in the back garden that are starting to open today too.