Texas Gardening: Gardening with Texas Native Plants & Wildflowers, part 18, 1 by TexasPuddyPrint

TexasPuddyPrint wrote:
No rain out here at all!!! Racoons and skunks are healthy. There are still plenty of deer and way too many feral hogs. The coyotes and bobcats look skinny thouhg. Wish they'd snag a few of those baby feral hogs! Plenty of snakes still slithering about - mainly rattlers and indigoes. Each weekend that I've been to the ranch I see the same indigo snake coming out of the brushland and heading straight to the pond(well I think it's the same one). Lots of frogs in the pond - so am sure it's well fed.

I'd found a Unicorn Plant (Devil's Claw) out in the back pasture and had been watering it each weekend I went to the ranch. When I checked on it today something had eaten all the flowers and leaves!!! GRRRRRRRRRRRR!!! The green seed pods are still intact though...let's see how long that lasts.

Makes no sense to say we're in the middle of hurricane season if we can't even get one of those dratted disasters to send a wee bit of rain our way...don't want the wind and gale forces just rain :o)

~ Cat

Photo of plant before the foliage got eaten. At least the green devil claw seed pods are still intact.


This message was edited Aug 2, 2009 8:23 PM