Trois, Both names apply to the same flower.
HotnSpicy, would it be possible to take a close-up of the flowers & leaves? After I sent the previous response, I took another look at the flowers and found two other members of the same family, Gentianaceae, that your wildflowers could be, but without a close-up I can't tell.
Gardening with Texas Native plants & Wildflowers. Part 6
Some wildflower pics from the side of the road today
Frogfruit
Wild ruellia, I picked a few seeds too.
Ratibida columnifera
Edited because my brain was asleep and I put the wrong botanical name on this plant!
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Sorry, I think I was refering to our Marsh Pinks, which have a yellow center. We still have a few blooming, I think. More checking. Old age gets me again. And the heat.
Josephine, I was out your way today and ran by to look at your stuff. It looks beautiful! It's so different from earlier in the season! In case anyone noticed, it was just me walking up to your gate to take a few pics of the backyard. :)
Here is a picture of our little house in the garden jungle.
That is our worshop. I took the picture squatting down so it looks like the house is almost hidden.
Calalily is that the same as Mexican Hat?
bettydee there are not really any leaves on the plant at this point they are just all stems and little flowers...
Paige, at what time were you there? I wish you had come to the door, I start work
at 1 pm now, and we could have visited. Thank you for putting up the picture, we will have to get together again when Mel comes back.
Dining " al fresco " which actually was " al hot " but it is so pretty out there.
We don't do it very often.
It was about 2pm. I had my son with me and he was tired of riding around in the car, so I was just making a quick trip. He took a few good pictures tho! Pretty good for 6 yr old. :)
This is what the seed pod cluster of the Illinois Bundleflower
( Desmanthus illinoensis ) looks like, that is one of the reasons they call it
Twist Pod too.
I was able to get three fo the one plant, and about 10 who knows little guys that I think might be something!
HotnSpicy, yes, it's a Mexican Hat and I got the name wrong, it's Ratibida columnifera. I don't know where my brain was, there are coreposis tinctoras here too, but they have flat flowers.
Texas Persimmon, ( Diospyros texana ) a native tree found at the Fort Worth botanic garden.
Brown- eyed Susan, ( Rudbeckia hirta ) native wildflower, found at the botanic gardens also.
Butterfly Milkweed, possibly ( Asclepias tuberosa ) at the gardens also.
I love the silver-gray bark of the Texas Persimmon. We have a large stand of them up on the bluff above the river. One thing we haven't been able to enjoy is the fruit. It disappears before it fully ripens. Dont' know who the culprits are.
I recently bought some Brown eyed Susan seeds...I didn't realize they were going to be that tall...I also have seeds for the Prarie Coneflower Ratibida columnaris ...which has the same coloring I believe...
Veronica, probably squirrels are the culprits, they eat our figs before
they are ripe too.
Hotnspicy, those two flowers are similar, but Brown-eyed susan has larger flowers and is a short lived perennial, the Prairie coneflower is an annual, they are both very pretty.
Paige, your son took a very nice picture of the slope, thank you, may be that will be his field of expertise. Sorry I didn't get to see you.
You all have to read this article!! I put it in a separate thread so that everyone would see it.
http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/525432/
Paige, that was amazing, I think you don,t have to go quite that far, to provide a habitat
but her place must be really something, I certainly woul love to see it.
Did you notice one thing? No Frostweed!
We must remedy that situation immediately!
When I go to Houston, I will bring her so me.
Thank you for posting and lettting us know.
Josephine.
I'm sure that there are probably some things she could live without. You know how addicting it can get! lol Yes, you must take her some Frostwee, and then you can bring back some pictures of her things! :) It sounds wonderful. Maybe she'd like to give away cuttings from some of the things she should trim? :)
LOL, my kind of eccentric!
That's kind of why we sold our house in Houston and moved to the country. We still have to battle the county and some of the neighbors, that think every thing should be mowed flat to the ground. So many people want to control the lives of others. They claim "property values". We did a survey of this and found that in a non-restricted neighborhood only 4 blocks away (in Houston), houses were 20% higher than in "planned" landscaping neighborhoods. This fear of creatures living in vegitation is a total DUH. The creatures are afraid to come out and the fraidy cats are afraid to go in, so what's the problem?
When I first came on the internet there was a woman in the midwest doing the same kind of battle with her town...I wish I could remember her name but it eludes me...anyway...the town eventually brought in a machine and bulldozed her property...It was really sad...she had been keeping a diary of the events as they transpired for all to read.
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Same thing happened in Tulsa a few years back, they came mowed it all down and charged her for the cost to boot. She gave tons away before they came, because once they came they took out everything!
I guess here in Arlington they are a little more linient. The plants on the slope can get 5 feet tall, but we keep it neatly edged and it looks like a flower garden. I have worried at times that the city might say something, but I was surprised two years ago when a city code inspector nominated me for the
Earth Friendly category, and I won honorable mention and certificate from the mayor of Arlington.
I never saw the inspector , she came by, saw the yard, and decided to do it on her own, so I guess there is hope.
I think if you read the article it was when the people in her area called the city is when they got on to her. I have the city inspector right behind me so I am very careful to make back there not look like a wild lot to much.
I can't imagine how HORRIBLE it would be to come home and see they have mowed your plants down!! That is just awful! I can see the problem if it's someone's yard that was just unkept at all, but when someone is actually planting these and caring for them it just seems absurd. Of course, I'm not living next to them either. I am thankful that I do not have a yard assoc.
I have no idea what I can do in my city. I'm just doing what I want. LOL I have a wooden fence that blocks everyone from seeing anything in my yard, so I don't think it's bothering anyone. I do know that most of my back bed tho is planted in the city utility easement. When we first dug the bed, I didn't know I would continue to enlarge it. If anything ever needs to be dug up, the only thing that might be in the way is my crepe myrtle. Everything else is basically a perennial that could be replanted. Whew....
I probably should go ahead and do some mowing before someone tells me I must. Thats not likely here. Btw, the part for my mower finally came in. :-)
Just thought I'd give trois a run for his money with this image of one of my passion flower blooms.
Really trois, you da man with the images.
Aw shucks, kipper2. Whupped up on me here.
Gee thanks Josephine...where is this swap meet? I would certainly like to be there. I might have something too.
Sylvia
Something new found growing here.
Amethyst Sea Holly.
Trois, I'm so jealous!!! I want these so bad! Aren't they beautiful?! I was so excited when I found some Sea Hollie's at Wal-Mart this year. Only one of my three seems to be doing well now. I don't think they'll bloom until next year either. Lucky you! Take more pics!
They are very beautiful and unusual plants. We just keep finding neat new things around here.
We also have thousands of Partridge Peas, just starting to bloom.
Paige, I think they will bloom, they normally bloom in the fall around here.
If they don't bloom this year, they probably won't make it, since they are annuals.
Sylvia, the plant swap is scheduled at Veterans Park, here in Arlington on Sunday, Septenber 25th, it is listed on the Texas gardening forum.
We would love to see you there.
Josephine.
And a large number of Mexican Petunias still blooming.
