Another positive on the Ruellia nudiflora, it is a host plant for the Buckeye Butterfly!!
Arlington Spring 2013 RU after - bash thread
That is a great shot Sheila, the buckeyes are so beautiful!!!!
I saw a gorgeous tiger swallowtail yesterday with very intense coloring, it was very large, only the second one I have seen this year.
I did not realize that it is a host plant for the Buckeye. I guess I need some of that next time around. I may have to start planting on the roof any day now. chuckle.
well that would explain why I have buckeyes. I'm still moving the Ruellia nudiflora to a place near the curb and away from my vegetable garden.
I also need to move some peach iris out of the vegetable garden area. Also 2 small nandina nana shrubs in good health but still in ground, 1 nandina domestica in a pot that miraculously survived not being watered last winter and most of this spring. Anyone need some plants please drop me a PM. Maybe I can get this stuff lifted tomorrow
Hi all:
I wanted to post an update on a couple of the plants I got from the RU. Remember the Don Juan Rose that was run over and hacked up by the bulldozer? Well the first pic is the before, the second was taken 2 days ago!
The last pic is of one of the knockout roses I got that was really just a stem with leaves on it....I have 3 of these growing like crazy, they love my little garden! Thanks so much for the roses - more pics to come!
Angel
Edited on 5/30:Correction, the Don Juan has a bud on it this morning!!!!!
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Glad the cuttings rooted. You've got the magic touch! or the magic spit. chuckle
Marty LOL Thanks so much for your generosity
Angel
Well you know Marty that BRIT Botanical Research Institute of TX does have a prairie on their roof!
Wow, neat idea, I'd have a roof garden if I didn't get so much wind out here..
And CovenantGardens, that Crinum lily is just stunning. It is blooming beautifully for me now.
Here is a great video link that shows all of the planning that went into the design of their new building. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMJHHL3HVRs
Great video, Sheila. I cant wait until most people have buildings like that.
That was great Sheila, it was good to see the roof from way up high, gives you a new perspective.
Here I am promoting it but in reality I am ashamed to say I have not set foot in there. Need to do that soon!
Yes, it is an amazing place.
Is a free to good home adoption thread for plants ok under Texas Gardening? I'm about to go out and dig stuff up. Good stuff. Needs a home.
Gypsi, I'm glad you're enjoying the crinum lily. I have a yard full of them in bloom. They were passed from my grandmother, to mother, to me and have multiplied like crazy. I just love them!
I love them, and I have a daughter who is a lily buff. If this one multiplies, she will get one of the new starts. Thank you again.
Actually from the Roundup I did really well. I did lose the autumn clematis start, it got moldy in the bottle and died when I moved it out of the bottle (I transitioned by allowing air for a day or 2)
And I discovered vanishing comfrey syndrome last week. Fortunately I mapped the flower bed and wrote down where I planted what, or I would not know that the comfrey had quietly gone. The heartleaf scullcap has really taken off, and the others are doing well too, including my little columbine. Thank you all.
Now I have found the plant swap/giveaway thread. I have so many plants I want for little but I sure have some orphans that need homes. Guessing that's where I put them.
I don't see why a plant adoption thread would be a problem, although it might be difficult to come and get them at the proper time.
usually I post orphaned iris on Crowley Burleson Freecycle, just as a front porch pickup. There is a plant swap forum on DG (found it after I posted this.)
My schedule will slack off soon and it won't be as urgent to do anything on time. And that is a very good thing...
Gypsi....If you have a place you can pot and keep them watered, we do have a fall swap remember! Usually October, it might be worth at least holding on to the larger ones for four months so you have a group for the swap.
Well, little stuff is mainly going in the city's mulch/organics recycling program.
I can pot the 2 shrubs.
Peach iris are being trimmed and brown bagged.
And today, after I spent yesterday throwing away lantana starts, I got a Dmail from someone who wants some, so I will pot some for her. If I find more. I'm afraid she may be a day too late.
I put my truck in the shop, the Moon is about to enter Taurus, I have garden soil enriched with oak leaf/sand/ composted for 2 years in a pond, with bone meal, green sand, potash, hydrated lime and alfalfa.... I expect some kind of a harvest. And I found sweet potato slips that had come up IN the garden. In the middle of bermuda grass invasion.
Now if I could only find someone with a rototiller to take the grass out between fence and street, I have a pound of white dutch clover seed looking for a home. I watered last night to make the digging easier.
Did you mean you are giving away a lb of Dutch Clover or you are intending to plant it between the fence and the street? If the former, I would like the seed please and I will pay postage.
nope, I am replacing bermuda grass with the lb of dutch clover seed. I can tell you where I got it for a very miniscule price though. Stock Seed Farms in Nebraska, they have a website. I got red, crimson and white and I don't think I spent $20 including postage
Thanks, Gypsi. I appreciate it.
I walked outside this evening after a pretty hard day, and low and behold look what greeted me! That little Don Juan not only survived the bulldozer but it is blooming DOUBLE blooms! Never have seen a Double Don Juan - so beautiful!
Angel
Love that red mulch, Angel.
ain't it sumpin' LOL...I have a surprise for you all....The Don Juan has a graft! The picture of the double bloom is actually a graft of another rose. I don't know what kind though.
I found out because it bloomed on the other side and it was a traditional Don Juan Bloom - two roses for the price of one!
How fun is that!
DFW Dennis - I'm having trouble with my little sedum. I think I still have 4 varieties. I moved them from a pot into the ground, sunny bed north side of my house, near my iceplant. i threw a piece of white fabric over them today, so I didn't lose them. I tend to water deeply not more than once a day, what am I doing wrong?
I'm not sure. I keep mine in a pot and I water it much less frequently than once a day. What symptoms are they having?
Unless the soil is fast draining like pure sand, I would think watering that often would rot them.
they are being baked by the sun and yes it is fast draining. the ones I covered with the white cloth looked better this morning.
I don't have dappled sun out here. I have open prairie sun blast for the most part, except where I planted a pine tree 12 years ago, have a bit of shade under it that lasts, and my giant elm on the back lot is shady.
I have GOT to get more solar panels, meantime should I lift the sedum and move them into a pot in the shade?
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Mine are in a fairly large pot in my courtyard, which gets full sun for several hours in the middle of the day, but is shady in the morning and late afternoon.
ok. will figure out where to move to. This is the north side of my house, about as good as it gets in the ground.... I put my strawberries on the east side of the pine, because no matter how much I water, the afternoon sun burns them up
Cheryl told me they like partial sun and not a lot of water. Seems to work for me as I've not killed any that I got from her last year.
Mine are in a pot in part sun. About like Dennis described. Sun in middle of the day only.Shade from 2 PM onward. So far so good with the ones I got from Dennis this RU.
I only have 3 species left of the original 4. Seems like everyone else has them in a pot, I started out in a pot and moved them to the ground to keep them moist, and I think they really liked potting soil better. And more shade...Now my iceplant 6 inches from them are multiplying I think
I have all of my sedum in the ground but not in sun. They do fine or at least the ones I have do.
C
The only areas that don't have sun in my yard are in the back yard under the china berry and baby walnut tree- belongs to the dogs and back yard chickens,
under the pine trees on the lot - 3 inch thick pine straw, I put pots there but don't plant, they are 12 year old eldarica pines and doesn't like much water, my tomatoes are at either edge of their shade this year, but not under. I will pot the sedum and move them out there.
And the giant elm on the back of the lot, the soil is just pure sand, only wildflowers and scruffy grasses will live at all so I put a summer chicken coop and run under it, bees in the sunny part of the lot, a pond and a couple of sheds. I have a couple of patches of decent soil and I put a vitex in one, a rose of sharon is struggling in the other. The hens run weed patrol, I couldn't keep a sedum alive 10 minutes.
My roof is 12 or 13 years old, with no trees above it, it got very hot so I painted it white in 2009. Lowered the house temp 10 degrees or so.