dmj, are you still out there? I need to know when you want to come get your daturas. I repotted them and they look great.
Gardening with Texas Native Plants & Wildflowers, part 11.
Hi Mary Lee, I am glad the Daturas are doing well, I hope you are doing well too.
Josephine.
Yes--I'm here...I'm working on a trip to San Antoine--dad came back early from Alaska. I have a passion vine for someone in SA--I can just come to Fredricksberg and then stay at his house. How are the teeth? better?
Debbie, yes the teeth are much better, thank you for asking. Just let me know when you can come. I think you said once that you would come the last week in June. Are you still planning on that? Or will it be July? The reason I'm asking is that we will probably be installing some cabinets the first week in July in SA. I just hope we can be here the day that you come. Or we could meet in SA. I'm not sure yet what days we'll be there.
Josephine, Hi and thanks for these wonderful plants. I finally got mine in the ground. Debbie gets 2 and who else gets the other 2? Or does Debbie get all 4?
Maggimoo gets them I think. Maybe 6th, 7th, and 8th. I was planning to come to Fredricksberg for a day. We're still working on this. Robin has a dental appo on the 11th--got to be back for that.
Ok, I'll let you know as soon as I know what days we'll be in SA. I hope this works out because I was hoping you could look at my yard and give me some advice on what to fill some empty spots with. But if all else fails we can meet in SA at the Buckhorn Saloon. That's where the cabinets are going.
Mary Lee, Debbie is right, the other two plants are for Mary.
Debbie,will you be able to give them to her?
you betcha! Houston's not that big. ;)
I didn't want to say anything until I saw if the seeds were viable or not...but even after 5 years they seem to be germinating. Would anyone be interested in Maurandya antirrhiniflora or snapdragon vine at fall RU. Don't want to plant a bunch if no one wants any--I put them in those 'spagham hanging baskets' that nothing else will survive in down here in the summer.
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/1203/index.html
Debbie, I would love some, Please!!! You are so nice.
Josephine.
I will get more started today--I started the last ones right before all that rain. They came up quickly.
I would love to have a start too. If it survives Houston, it surely will thrive in N. TX.
Same here - would love one to grow here...
Debbie, can you save one for me. I can put it in my greenhouse for the winter. Thanks.
Yes--will start the seeds asap.
Mitch--will you be wanting any TX star's at fall RU?
I am always up for TX stars - thank you.
good Mitch--I have a zillion seeds of those. They would be good with your cannas I think.
I do good with seeds so you could just save me the seed and that would be wonderful.
Are you in the addy? I'll send you some to give you something to do now...
I sure am!
OK--will get them off tomorrow--missed the mail today...locked keys in trunk of car at grocery store, had to wait for teenager to get there. Luckily its only 90 down here today...lol
Hi Everyone!
Wanted to share my Rudbeckia hirta "Irish Eyes". It's my first time to grow it this year and I started the plants from seed in late winter. Didn't know quite what to expect when it bloomed, but I am very pleased. These are my first blooms as of today. I like it so much that I am going to do my best to keep it established in the garden.
I don't know if this particular variety could be considered a true TX native, so I post it based on the fact that most of the genus Rudbeckia IS native to TX, and I thought that y'all would want to see the blooms, anyway. ;-))
And an extreme closeup of the 'Irish eye'.
Wow! Hill that's beautiful! I love yellow in the gardens.
That is really pretty, thank you for showing it to us.
Josephine.
Ya'll know anything about problems with possumhaw hollies-- IIlex decidua? No one from trees and shrubs seems to have an answer.
http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/620670/
Debbie
Debbie, Beverly at Arbor Gate can probably help you re the possumhaw hollies. She has been recommending them to me for years, I will eventually buy some... maybe after you first iron out the problem with them, lol.
Oh goody, the daturas! I completely forgot about them, actually. I'll be in CA from 7/5 to 7/15, hope you don't mind babysitting them for a little bit. Thanks Josephine for sending them, Mary Lee for picking them up, and Debbie for also picking them up!!
The plant is not losing any leaves and seems happy--its just got some sort of problem
Every winter I wish I had gotten one, they are so pretty when everything else is looking gray and drab. I don't remember, have you ever been to Arbor Gate?
yes...there's not many I haven't hit this summer.
Debbie, it looks like some kind of black spot. I have never seen such large leaves on a Possom haw, may be they overfed it and it is trying to make an adjustment.
This is what the leaves on my possom haw look like, a lot smaller than the ones on yours.
Maybe baking soda solution in water or milk? Mine looks about like yours; just not as full --its probably the way I took the picture.
Hill5422, you should upload that close up picture in the Plant Files database. Great photography.
Well, the baking soda or the milk couldn't hurt.
I used the milk mixture last year on my Crepe Myrtles and it left a white film on them. I kept battling it for a while after until I realized it! I don't know if the milk helped the p/m or just hid it tho.
This year I'm spraying in advance with GardenVille's Potassium Bicarbonate with some compost tea added in it.
Paige, if you haven't already, would you post a picture of your garden in the thread about cottage gardens? I think yours definitely qualifies! (I can't remember which thread you recently posted a picture of your butterfly garden.)
This is one of my favorites, a native clematis! In Marshall Enquist's book, Wildflowers of the Texas Hill Country, it's called the Purple Leatherflower, Clematis Pitcheri. Oh, FYI, that book is back on the market again (after being out of print) and I highly recommend it. I just love the time of year when these flowers are blooming! I've got the plant climbing on a trellis in a slightly shady corner of the garden and it grabs hold of some overhanging live oak limbs to climb even farther. When it first bloomed a while back, I couldn't get a very good shot of it because the blooms were up in the tree.
Linda, you are a treasure and a source of inspiration! Oh my goodness, you seem to have all the plants that I haven't been able to find around here.
Would it be too much to ask for seed or cuttings of Clematis pitcheri?
Please let me know what I can give you in return, I feel greedy asking all the time, but I just love the Texas natives, and it gives me an opportunity to pass them along to others around this area.
Josephine.
Wow that is a beautiful flower. I would love to have it here too.
Oh, Lordy, Josephine! You're not greedy (otherwise, I'd have to say I AM! LOL). Nothing wrong with wanting good natives. You share with others so much! And SO MANY people have shared seeds and plants with me, I HAVE TO pass them along to others! Hmm, haven't even thought about cuttings of that one. Are clematis easy as far as cuttings? I'm not good at getting cuttings to root, but could try it myself. I wanted to share this plant with a friend of mine in the S. A. area also. In any case, I'll have seeds later...and cuttings if we can get together at the RU. I think I may have gotten seeds for this one at a NPSOT meeting once. Up in Boerne, it grows at the Cibolo Nature Center (I think...or maybe it's the native red one). If people DO end up with a swap/get-together in Boerne, some people might want to go see that place while they're in the area.
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that's a great idea Linda. I will check with the nature center and see if we can schedule something along with them.