Jackie, I have been looking but don't have a definite answer, although I am quite sure that it is a type of Indigo, possibly Indigofera miniata, Texas Indigo, that is the closest I have found.
It sure is pretty, could you save me some seeds, please, I would love to have it here.
The picture of the tobacco looking plant, I beleive is Nicotiana repanda, Fiddleleaf tobacco, and both are Texas native plants.
It is good to hear from you again, will you be able to come to the Dallas roundup?
Josephine.
Gardening with Texas Native Plants & Wildflowers, part 11.
I am sure you're right but the bloom doesnt look like the pictured indigo in plantfiles, it definitely produces a legume type seed. Plant size is maybe a foot square and tall with the mimosa type foliage. I love the color combo of yellow and coral...like the prickly pear bloom...........I"ll be happy to send seed when it makes.....I tried transplants but it has a tap root and doesn't transplant well........Pictured is a better close up, mingled in with the poison oak.
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gonna hafta miss the roundup.....I have fallen in love with the country here and I have to be drugged to even visit the cities anymore....it's a different lifestyle, didn't know I would enjoy it so..........hubby goes to the metroplex quite often but I just can't want to...
I can't imagine how I got the tobacco, but it is stunning.....definitly gonna save seed from that one..even the plant without bloom is nice....be great in the back border.......
I guess I will have to research some more, I hope I can identify it for you.
Sorry that you won't make it to the R.U., But your reasons seem very good.
Josephine.
maybe a locoweed of some sort
Hello guys, there is one little plant that I have discovered lately, I am sure that is has been around forever, but I had never seen it.
It is a litlle groundcover that is grwoing all over the Wilsccape called Snake-Herb.
It is about a foot tall max and the flowers a really pretty like little snapdragons.
Here is a picture of the plant and a link to the native plants search engine.
Sorry wrong link, this will work http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/66818/index.html
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And a close up of the flower.
Yes, they ARE cute! It's funny, because I just started growing them this year also.
Hello Linda, thank you for letting us know, please keep us up on how they do for you.
Josephine.
This is another neat groundcover, White Avens, Geum canadense, it is a native ans it grows to about 10 inches tall, and can take sun or shade.
The leaves a really neat.
Mitch, this is a picture od the potted plant you gave me clled Sacred Datura, the bloom is a very light lilac color and about 1 1/2 inches long, do you know the scientific name?
A close up of the flower, it never did open all the way, and it lasted one day.
Well I found a link for it it is called Datura stramonium and it is introduced.
Here is the link. http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=DAST
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Josephine, does that geumcanadense have a bloom? We used to have a similar plant growing wild in our yard that had a tall bloom stalk and white flowers. It really reminded me of a scented geranium. It had a slight scent, but I can't remember what it was. Nobody could tell me what it was called. I think I saw it about 3 years in a row and then never again.
Mary Lee
Yes, it does have a white bloom similar to a blackberry flower, but it is not thorny, it is very neat. How are things with you? Did you get rested up from all the driving?
Mary Lee, look at what bloomed for me the other day, it is the October Rose Hibiscus, Hibiscus cannabinus, the only one I have had so far, I think it is really pretty.
Thank you very much.
Josephine.
Awsome flower. Mine hasn't bloomed yet. In fact, it almost died because I forgot to put it with the others for my neighbor to water while we were at the coast. When we got back it was all completely shriveled up. But I faithfully watered it anyway and glory be, it's all green now.:) Do you keep yours in a pot or in the ground? I think I read that it's not even root hardy here.
I was very tired when we got back from Mo. I was taking antibiotics for an abscessed tooth and they were making me sicker. I changed to another one and started feeling better right away, but I'm still not quite right. But I'm making progress on getting my RU plants in the ground.
Thanks for the datura.:) As soon as I have some empty 1 gal pots I'll transplant them so they'll have more room to grow.
Mary Lee
Hello Mary Lee, I am glad you are felling better.
The October Rose is in the ground, I probably will take a cutting or two later in the year and crry then over in little pots for next year, that way they won't take up a lot of space over the winter.
Josephine.
Sure do -
Family: Solanaceae (sol-uh-NAY-see-ee) (Info)
Genus: Datura (duh-TOO-ruh) (Info)
Cultivar: Lilac Le Fleur
Additional cultivar information: La Fleur Lilac
plant files info - http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/69809/index.html
Josephine, I'm trying to find a spot for some cedar sage. If I put it near a rose would it compete too much with the rose? I have one that gets morning sun only. Or I could put it in a bed that gets light shade most of the day and direct sun from 10 - 2 more or less. I also have savia guarantica and daylilies there.
Mary Lee
I would put it with the salvia guaranitica, the red and the blue would look very pretty together, and the shape of the flowers is similar.
Thanks Josephine. I'll do it today.:)
Mary Lee, are you familiar with the Red Zinger hibiscus?
You gave a plant of it and the stems are red, the foliage varigated. Are they supposed to look like that? or is my plant not feeling well.
Scenes from our backyard.
A group of double petal Sunflowers, these volunteered last year and I save the seed.
My secret garden seat, I go there with my Angel cat for some delecious coffee for me and belly rubs for her.
Another view with my neighbors crepe myrtles bhind the fence, isin't it heavenly?
I have always wanted some Monarda growing in my yard, so for the first time this year, I purchased some seed early this spring at Wmart and started it. It has done really well.
Here is my 'Purple Bee Balm' with a bee! ;-))
That is really pretty and a very good picture too. I used to have more of those but they have gradually dissapeared, I need to renew my stock, because I think they are lovely.
Congratulations on your success.
Josephine.
Great picture and plant. I love monarda--I over-wintered some seed but no blooms yet.
Is that purple bee balm?.......it's beautiful, but the fields of it around here I have been referring to as horse mint. It blooms in the wild here at the same time as the ox-eyed daisey. When the daiseys close in the mornings and late afternoons it's undersides are a pinky purple and look great with the "horse mint". I am pleased to have a more suitable name to put with it. I dug some up and brought to the cultivated butterfly garden.....one took root and is doing great so I expect to have a better spread from it next season.
I had no idea that was Monardo.......I have tried growing the red in the dry areas around the ponds many times here with no success....I had given up thinking it was not meant to be. I try to get along with nature here as best I can...
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My next project is to dig ironweed from the meadow.....it's full of it right now...bringing some up to the butterfly garden.....it doesn't stay pretty long in the meadows, not enough water because of our drought and it turns brown quickly from the bottom up. Hopefully some will fare better with care
Oh hill5422, I just love this bee balm too! I threw out a bunch of seeds last fall and have one of these now. I am so excited too! I hope that it reseeds.
Sorry if I confused you about the Monarda, Jackie. It goes by both Beebalm and Horsemint, among others. I use common names interchangeably, and sometimes make up my own. ;-)) That's why scientific names are so important. Scientifically known, it it Monarda citriodora, regardless of what you want to "commonly" call it--beebalm, horsemint, purple beebalm, purple horsemint, lemon mint, lemon balm, plains horsemint, lemon beebalm, beebalm 'lambada', etc.
I must be double confused (often am...lol) I thought Monarda fistulosa was the native one.
I have the other types: monarda didyma and the monarda citriodora...I think they may be going to takle 2 years to bloom for me. If they survive the humidity down here--I hear they aren't big fans of it. Grew some in the butterfly garden at the school I used to work at--hooked on them ever since.
Debbie
Yes, lemon balm was another name I used..........Hill..not confused anymore...enlightened, and I thank you
there were lots of it in the meadows this year, it's about dried out, we need rain so badly, it has rained all around us but not in my little valley....
I"ll see if I can collect seed for those of you who want it.....
konkreteblond--I see beebalm described as both an annual and a perennial. Guess that is dependent upon on your zone. I am thrilled with my success with it. I had no idea it would be so easy to start and transplant and it responds so well to fertilizing. I will be keeping it in my garden for years to come.
Good Jackie, I am glad we are on the same page again.
Debbie...maybe ALL the Monarda you mentioned is native? Regardless, I know the M. citriodora exists in the wild in Texas, native or not and I LIKE it. ;-))
In other news, the Gaillardia I started from seed this winter is almost ready to bloom. Here is a little teaser for you...
Horsemint is what I've known it by but couldn't think of the name. I really don't try to keep up with specific names of things. I used to but then I decided I'd rather be outside piddling than inside trying to figure out a name. :) ..."I don't know, it's some kind of salvia" works for me. lol
bergomont is another name for it...I think :)
Well Ladies, I got curious about the Monarda plant and wondered how many of them there are, so I went to USDA and put in Monarda, and it runrs out there are 66 of them most of them Texas natives, isin't that wonderful? Some of them are endemic.
It appears that the common name Beebalm applies mainly to the ones that have flowers up and down the stem, while the name Bergamot applies to the ones that have flowers only at the top. So everybody was right.
Here is the link, I think it is really neat. http://plants.usda.gov/java/nameSearch?keywordquery=monarda&mode=sciname&submit.x=16&submit.y=10
Josephine.
That many sounds to good to be true...
Thank you Josephine for taking the time to research that info and to educate us!
as always Josephine, you are such a help...thank you