This annual really stands out. That gray foliage with the large flowers are a great combination. I couldn't get close enough to see if the unpleasant odor claim is true.
Golden Crownbeard, aka, Cow-Pen Daisy, Verbesina encelioides
Gardening with Texas Native plants & Wildflowers. Part 5
About a month ago, I bought 3 plants of Ruellia nudiflora, Wild Petunia, but the pink ones. I went out this afternoon to find the four buds had opened. I rushed back to get my camera. By the time I got back out there, the wind had knocked off three of the four flowers. :-(
I need to go dig up a few of the purple ones to add to my garden. Are they easy to transplant?
That reminds me of how a friend describes Lubbock. She said everything would bloom and just be gorgeous, people would run out to enjoy it, because by the next day the wind would have carried all the flowers off. :-(
Yes veronica, the unpleasant odor is true, but it is not that unpleasant, and it is only the foliage,
if you disturb it.
I think Cow pen daisy is beautiful.
My little Jimsonweed, that I got from Josephine via Mel, has 2 blooms on it. :) I can't wait to see if they smell, since Mel's did. I know my moonvine does, but didn't know these did.
This coreopsis has just gotten prettier every day. My dad instantly wanted some, but this is just one plant. I'm sure I'll have babies from it.
We have just dug up nd transplanted about 15 purple Mexican petunias. It never slowed them down a bit. We watered them in good, and I think they like it here now.
They are very easy.
trois
Maggie, it's been so windy here I wish I had a living wall 30' high to protect my plants. The leaves and flowers on my Brugmansias are getting shredded. The leaves wilt partway through the day. Rose petals fly past my kitchen window every few days.
Trois, thank you for the information on the Mexican Petunias. They are beginning to bloom so they should be easy to spot.
Josephine, I noticed the cow-pen daisy had seed heads. I think I go pick them to add to the back of my garden.
Konkreteblond, coreopsis seed easily. In fact, too easily sometimes.
We have that 30 foot wall and it has its down side. We are surrounded by dense tree and shrub thickets. It makes a great buffer from strong wind but increases the heat a bit. The plants love it though, if well watered. My son, 500 feet North of me, has cleared all nearby trees. He has the wind problem. It is somewhat cooler there. The other plus is the privacy screen.
Thanks for the privet info.
I found this little article and thougt it might be of interest to those of you who want to provide a good environment for wildlife.
HOW TO GARDEN FOR WILDLIFE.
#1 Grow native plants found in your area, including trees, shrubs and other plants that offer food such as pollen, nectar, acorns, nuts,cones, berries and other seeds.
#2 Provide water for wildlife with a birdbath, small pond or shallow dish, or a natural spring or stream on or near your habitat.
#3 Create protective cover for wildlife by growing a medow, a prairie, densely branched shrubs and evergreens. Place hollow logs and rock piles in your yard if possible.
#4 Provide places to raise young. Attach birdhouses to metal poles and monitor their use.
Grow host plants for caterpillars to eat, and provide dense plantings to create safe areas for nesting wildlife.
This is a lovely little flower Butterfly Pea, ( Centrosema virginianum ) found at the
Fort Worth Botanic gardens, such an adorable native to Texas.
I am sorry, after putting up this post, I realized that the Butterfly Pea has a different kind of leaf, so this is some other pea, I don,t know which. I will put it in the ID forum.
Well, It got identified really fast, It is Everlasting Pea, ( Lathyrus latifolia) I found it at the ladybird center, said native to the midwest.
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And a lovely pergola covered with Trumpet vine, ( Campsis radicans ) also at the
Fort Worth Botanic Garden, a deciduous native vine that grows rapidly.
We have these growing wild up over the top of our Eastern Canopy, blooming about 35 feet up. That is where our humming birds hang out. At times the ground under is completely red.
All right I have 11 pics fo ya! We gave up on the old camera... RIP and bought a new one. I will post them all first and then add the info second.
Here is 1 - does anyone know what this is? I have tons of it coming up I left it last year (did not plant this one) and it looked ok
2
Here is my pond
3
? I have several of these I gathered the seed from the field
4
Wildflower mix
5
Is this a wild grape vine?
6
leaves up close
7
This is the house from behind, the start of gardens!
8
seedling saved from empty lot - it has a woody stem, is this a sumac? it would be a tree or shrub
9
any ideas here? this came up in the flowerbed and well I left it thinking it might be something good.
10
This is my Texas Rock Rose - from Home Depot
Mitch, could you give us a little more od a close up on #1? It is hard to tell what the little flowers are like, but it looks nice.
Your pond is very nice, jusr hard to see it side ways.
#3 looks really pretty, is it scented?
#4 Cornflower and Cosmos.
Congratulations on your new camera.
Josephine.
11!
I found this and it moved fine this spring any ideas? I thought it looked like Iron weed maybe???
Number one are really small and white, the leaves are big and deep cut.
12 - here are the flowers to number one
Mitch # 11 is Tall Goldenrod.
I beleive #8 is a Sumac, don't know which kind.
Your gardens in back of the house look very nice, keep up the good work.
#6 does look like a grapevine, nor sure.
the next two are my pond -
Mitch, they sure are adorable but I don't know what they are, may be Veronica will know.
here is the other one - sorry the water level is so low
Very nice pond Mitch, I see you have been busy.
I have plenty - if you want some I can bring over a few this weekend Frostweed, I must have 50 or so of them and some ae small. Last year they ended up being 4 ft or so tall.
Thanks - we started out with next to nothing, still not such to look at but it is a start.
Mitch, which plant are you referring to, the white, or the pink one.
The white flowers! The pink I have two crossing fingers for seed.
I will give them a try, they look lacy and lovely, and may be they will turn out to be native.
We are having gests this Sunday for Father's day at about 2 o'clock.
Probably if you come later after it cools down it would be nice, however, you might be busy with your own Father's day celebration, let me know. Josephine.
Sunday late would be great just let me know what time is fine. I will being the pots. I dont know if you can see it but the lizards tail is in the pond - it already doubled once so it should be ready for you by fall.
number three - I dont think so ... no smell. They look really smart though in the flower bed.
O.K. Mitch I will email you about the time as we get closer.
if anything else I have looks like something you would like LMK I can take cuttings before Sun, save seed, or a few I can devide.
Mitch,
#3 - Candytuff - Iberis umbellata, there is a pink version. It's not native, an escapee.
#6 - It doesn't look like a grapevine. Does the stem look like a cane?
#8 - Hercules Club - Zanthoxylum clava-herculis, check the base of the leaflets to see if there is a tiny recurved spine. The stem may also have some spines.
#9 which one?
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