Gardening with Texas Native plants & Wildflowers. Part 4

Wow! Does the water contain a lot of sodium?

Have been spend much of this past week watching one of our old cows and her newborn calf. I wanted to make sure the calf was getting enough milk. I did make time to take photos of some McCartney Roses growing nearby. The McCartney Rose, Rosa bracteata, is a plant I like to admire, but in someone else's backyard. It can grow 12 X 12. I multiplies rapidly and becomes a pest. Its beautiful white flowers are identical to those of the Cherokee Rose. The only difference is the number of leaflets on the flowering stems — 7 to 9 for the McCartney Rose and 3 to 5 for the Cherokee Rose.

I found this in my yard this afternoon. This is the only Purple Horsemint, Monarda citriodora, on the ranch with purple flowers in addtion to the purple bracts. All the others have pink flowers and the purple bracts. I flagged it to make sure my husband doesn't mow it down. He's been pulling up Brown-Eyed Susans left and right.

Those are both lovely flowers Veronica, the rose is really neat, I had never heard of it.

Maas nursery in Houston has a very large Cherokee Rose growing in their yard. At least 20 feet tall and wide.

I had assumed they were the same rose going by different names. In the extension classes I have to take to keep my Applicator's License, the McCartney Rose is the pest that is difficult to control. One neighbor has huge clumps all over one of his pastures.

We have none of the above growing here.

I saw a home and field slated for development, got permission and went looking. All I found was Iris (had to get some), native daylily (once agian) and red yucca. My question is the red yucca is this a native? it is out in the field so I wondered before I spent hours to dig it out if this is something I want here in the yard... such a sharp plant not something I want if it is not from here . . . LOL Mitch

Mitch,
Red Yucca is a Texas native. Here's a lint to a TAMU webpage. It apprears to have many good qualities. If you have a site where the sharp leaves won't be a problem, go for it.

Veronica

http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/aransas/redyucca.htm

Alright out I go in the morning and get it up... thanks hard to know were to find all this at... Thanks Mitch

This thread and especially Josephine are a good place to start Mitch.

I have already been out to her place and wow ... my head was swimming... I will have to go back I am sure I missed half trying to see everything!

almost time for thread 4....here is an updated picture of my Frogfruit. It's gone crazy this year. It is so healthy and happy, but I've had to give it a hair cut.

Hello Paige, that is some tall Frogfruit you have there, the cuttings you gave me took just great
and now they are ready to be set out.

I will try and start the thread over today if I can, it is getting long again, isn't it great?

Josephine.

Hello Everyone, the new thread #5 has been started, to go to the new thread click on this link

http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/518448/

Let us continue learning, sharing, and having lots of fun.

Sincerely, Josephine.