Found this and more after some googling: http://www.biosurvey.ou.edu/shrub/besc.htm
Its what wicker is made from!
Gardening with Texas Native plants & Wildflowers. Part 5
I can dig one up and save it for you. My daughter lives in Austin and will be here for the 4th. She could probably drop it off on the way back. I will save seeds this year. The flowers are not much but the berries are great, and you can make pepper from them.
No thanks. Reading about it is good enough for me. Apparently its native to my neck of the woods, as well.
Sorry for the misspelled word. It's a Rattan Vine.
Way2, I was answering bettydee about the Pepper Vine. It is a nice vine, unlike the Rattan Vine. It is our scourge.
I forgive you.
Thank you very much.
You guys!
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Thank you, trois. I'll e-mail my phone number so you can give it to your daughter. I could meet her in La Grange if she's using Highway 71.
I will talk to her, and see today if I can get one to grow. If not, it will be seeds, later.
trois
Just got my HGTV gardening newsletter for this month and it had a link to this article http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/gl_gardens_public/article/0,1785,HGTV_3593_3857620,00.html
Thought it might be of interest to y'all.....
Thank you Dstarz, that garden sounds wonderful, it seems that other states are waking up and following after Texas and Ladybird Johnson.
I hope the trend continues in all 50 states, we know that there is a very strong movement in that direction. Josephine.
I am sorry Guys, I know that this is not a native plant, but I am so proud of it , that I just had to show it. It is my Elephant Garlic. I was given one bulb 30 years ago by my friend Mrs. Bickley. I have nurtured and increased the crop and shared with all my friends. This year the crop was especially abundant, so here it is.
The garlic patch in the Spring.
all right I need a little help, I am wanting to add a native that will be a ground cover and go with the frog fruit but a little shorter, I called a few places but they had no ideas that were native... do you guys have any? 6-8 inches tall, spreads, a flower would be nice and you could plant a few things in between them ??? I know tall order
The garlic patch ready to harvest.
The garlic crop cleaned and ready.
The proud gardener with her crop.
And a picture of the wildflower slope 6-20-05, just so I don't stray from the main subject, Native Plants.
All of that garlic came from your little plot??? Just shows what good dirt and TLC can do...wow
Absolutely Mitch, gardening the organic way makes a world of difference.
I cannot believe that little bit of ground... do you know how many pounds you have there? I am sure your loose soi helps, they can get bigger without having to try to hard!
I didn't think to weigh it, but I will, that will be interesting to find out.
makes me dream about how peppers and mators would do in that soil of yours.... my poor things have still yet to really put out this year - but I have several Watermelons that have 12 or so each so if the wild things out here dont get them - ahhh
Wow that is an amazing garlic patch...Last winter I planted some cloves and they were growing so nicely and when we started building the new house...guess where the water lines had to be placed...Hope to have some nice garlic this next year though...
I have several watermelon plants that have been blooming for more than a month without a single melon being set. We have started clling them ornamental watermelons.
LOL - hey I needed a ground cover that could take the heat untill everything else got set - I planted watermelon, melons, and pumkins in all the beds so far so good the yellow blooms keep the beds always in bloom to... maybe I should add a few gourds to keep it native..
Trois I am sure you already know this, melons and squash have separate male and female flowers.
The male flowers have just a little stem behind them, and the female ones, have an ovary, which is seen behind the flower as a little swollen area, that is actually the start of the fruit.
If the two kinds of flowers don't open on the same day, the fertilization can not take place, so no fruit. But there is another factor, even if the two types of flowers are present, we still need a bee or some other insect to take the pollen from the male to the female.
This is where you can help, sometimes insects are not around when the flowers are open, and that's where you come in the morning with a Q-tip, and put the pollen where it needs to go, from the male flower to the center of the female flower.
I have done that with squash and melons and it works, you might want to try it.
Josephine.
with my sweet clover I tend to always have bees...
Alright here is a q - what is the best way to kill out Bermuda - it is choking out a few of the natives even... ahh I have pulled and pulled - I even dug like they said but 10 more come were one was... any ideas here?
There are lots of bees working all the time. I would have to fight them off.
Here, to get rid of Bermuda, sprig in some St Augustine, keep it well watered and cut high. In about 3 months no more bermuda.
I may have to do that - yikes.. oh well at least it will get it all out of here... cannot stand the suff. I have a guy near me with tons of St Aug growing of the sides of his yard he would be more then happy to give me a few little cuttings...what would I need a couple hundred? LOL
I think Mitch is wanting the bermuda out of the flower beds, am i right?
First remove as much of it as possible without damaging your plants. I have found that if you soak the area very well, you will be able to pull a lot more of the roots.
Then the only thing that it can't take is lack of sunshine, so mulch heavily around the plants, and when some shows up pull it again. It will be weekened, and as your plants grow, they will make shade and keep it from growing.
I think that is the best you can do onan existing flower bed.
Out of the beds, out of the yard (well the 50 sq feet I have left of grass!) out of everything.. .. it is choking out the whole thing... the pond is the only part of the yard that does not have the grass everywhere.... it is my summer mission to get all of the stuff gone!
Once the Bermuda is gone, the St. Augustine is much easier to get rid of, and not nearly as invasive.
Anything to get rid of it for good! In time all the grass with be gone in back - only at the door I am leaving some for my wife -
Frostweed - do you know what this is? It got a new leaf today so keep them crossed looks good...
My native Rock Rose bloomed today!!!!
It looks like red yucca to me, is that right?
yep - one of the two roots that live through a transplant in the heat when blooming!! Not bad - I have it right by maggiemoos oleander.
Well guys, it looks like it is time to start part 6 of this tread, I will try and get it done tomorrow. Josephine.
We should make sure we add our pics to the plant files - they are really really lacking in the natives area.
Bermuda Grass is the most insidious and obnoxious weed on earth! Can you tell how I feel about it? Last year, I wrote to TAMU to ask about getting rid of Bermuda. I was wished good luck and told it's almost impossible to get rid of because it's so deep rooted — 6 feet. I was given suggestions to try to control it. Solarizing during summer for 6 weeks will temporarily kill the top layer of Bermuda. Repeated use of something like Round-Up may eventually kill it, but any Bermuda seed lying around could germinate recontaminating the area. It can also travel long distances underground from another area.
I sprayed an area in my garden with Round-Up before planting a tree there. I placed landscape cloth and 4" of mulch around the tree. You should see the lush growth of Bermuda growing there.
Ornamec can be used in ornamental beds to control Bermuda. The Wildflower Farm in Fredricksburg sells Ornamec 70 (Premixed with surfactant). Overplanting with St. Augustine doesn't kill Bermuda, it only sends it into dormancy. If the St. Augustine is stressed in any way, the Bermuda will come back. Sigh :-(
Watermelon, squash and pumpkins produce male flowers first. That's why the first few flowers don't produce any fruit. Since your plants have bloomed for over a month without producing fruit, you must have planted seedless watermelon seeds. If you have seedless watermelon (Triploid), the plants are sterile. Triploid watermelons are hybrids of diploid and tetraploid seeded watermelons. When you plant seedless watermelon, you need to plant some pollinizers as well.