You are welcome Brandy, are you going to plant the seeds? It is a perennial and very pretty.
Josephine.
Gardening with Texas Native Plants & Wildflowers, part 13.
Yes I am planning to plant the seeds soon. Do you know if I should start them outside now or in pots in my green house? I am not sure where to grow them permently yet. Maybe by my pond.
Brandy
I would probably start them in the greenhouse that way you have more control, and when they are big enough you can set them out.
I thought maybe this might be Marsh Fleabane. What do you think? It was growing by a creek, moist soil pretty much. The creek wasn't flowing, but had some water in it after this summer of drought. Toads and such were hopping around in the shallow water...hardly more than large puddles, but at least there's water.
Beautiful , Linda...! Wow...what a great photo... :)
Yes, that is exactly it, isin't it lovely?
ohhhh I have a place for that! especially if it can take a lot of shade!
Nada, I could bring you one, but they are annuals, according to my book. Would you still want one? Otherwise, I could get you some seeds.
Bring some seeds if you would please.
lol Linda...I was checking out your list on the SA roundup and people thread....curious as to what some of your plants looked like...and when I did a search on plantfiles to see what you had available......I realized that I had about 3 things growing in my rock garden that I didn't even know that I had...lol...Now that's sad...when you have so much, you actually lose track of it all!
Melanie
that's why I plan to have my laptop on the deck where we can look at plant files on all or any of the plants to see what they look like all growed up!
lol Nada...wonderful idea.. :)
This past weekend was a prosperous one,...as far as tried & true bulbs are concerned! I was able to acquire (with a little work) at least a hundred Lycoris radiata (red spider lily) and about as many Rhodophiala bifida (Oxblood lily) and a few other plants I didn't have including a Ruellia yet to be identified, as well as some Hydrangea and other (unidentified) plants! Don't think I can have too many bulbs!
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How did you acquire and from where? That is cool...
Nada,...I dug them myself - from a good friend in the Liberty area....about to move (sold her house)
Wow.... I wish I had a friend like that! *giggle with all my land I will be putting plants into soil for YEARS to come!
nada
And think of how much fun it will be doin' it! All the interesting new plants & such you'll discover,..new friends! Fact is...for me,...I know that I'll still be gardening 'til my last day....so I hope I'll be putting a LOT of plants in the soil for years to come :~)
We'll be getting some new plants in a couple of weeks.....in your neck of the woods! Lookin' forward to it! Lee
Hello Stacey, remember the little Willowleaf Aster that you gave me at the Oklahoma R.U. last year?
Well, it has grown and multiplied, and it is lovely. Thank you very much.
I have discovered that it is an endangered species, so I am very glad to have it and will do my best to propagate it and pass it along to anyone who wants it.
Here it is, Willowleaf Aster, Symphyotrichum praealtum, isin't it lovely?
And here it is next to the Purple fall Aster for size comparison.
Hey Y'all,....of all the Oxblood Lilies I recently acquired,...there were 11 seed pods and I've since collected the seeds from them.
What do you suppose are the chances that they're viable?
I've read before on DG that 99% of the Rhodophiala bifida in our neck of the woods are sterile. I've planted most of the seeds and will eventually find out.....I just hope I'm a bit lucky.
I'm not sure Lee, but dang, those lilies were gorgeous. Sure wish I could have taken one...but no shade around here! :)
Melanie
Here's another shot of a pod about to open
Hi Melanie....I've got 'em growin' in the sun too,....but it may be too hot in your area...for full sun....even in Sept/Oct(when they usually bloom here)
BTW...I'm sure enjoying watching my white Orchid Tree grow...along with the Ruellia you gave me.
Here's a shot of some of the seeds
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Lee, it is very unusual ( as far as my experience goes ) for Oxblood lillies to make seed,.
I have had them for a long time and they never have done that, so maybe you have a different strain.
I hope the seeds produce plants for you, althought the bulbs are very prolific and probably will outproduce the seeds.
Here is a lovely Liatris mucronata growing wild at the Fort Worth nature preserve, these grow wild there as well as many other flowers. I was amazed at the large ammount of land they have reserved,
( over three thousand acres)!!! with prairies, wetlands, and forest, they even have Bison.
We are very lucky to have it, as our natural habitats slowly disappear due to urban sprawl.
Well, back to the Liatris.
Easy to see why the Liatris is a favorite among gardeners!
Isn't it beautiful! I'm glad that much land has been preserved,...
we need to keep the natural beauty intact as much as possible! Thanks Josephine!
Ok Blood lilies need shade? Mine are in full sun (only a year there) and bloomed this fall ( planted last fall)...
Liatris are a very stunning plant.... just love their spires.
Mitch , Oxbloods do well either way, good to hear from you Kid.
Hmm...perhaps I'll have to rethink those oxblood lilies then, lol. I always thought they needed part shade-part sun....my back yard being in full sun ALL day. No shade to speak of a'tall...and blistering hot. My wild cactuses love it :)
Glad to hear those wee plants are doin' well, Lee. Especially that Orchid Tree. I was so proud of myself for germinating and growing those seeds. I knew my green babies were going to good homes, lol. I've only managed to plant a few things...since my work schedule is so crazy. It will take about a day or 1/2 a day to dig a hole large enough for that Burr Oak. I kid you not! lol...Its like digging in concrete out there...so I reckon I'll have to find a pickaxe somewheres or about. But I'm real anxious to hurry up and get it in the ground. I'll take a photo of it for ya... :)
Melanie
I have one of my little rooted cuttings of Kidneywood that is just blooming away. Amazing how they do that! Still waiting to find out if the Damianitas rooted, but I have a feeling they may not make it. Salvias and Caryopteris doing well. Of course, many of my propagation class cuttings were kept at that nursery with the mist system and more consistent temps for quite a while until they were (hopefully they are) ready to come home. I can't give them those conditions at home, not having any kind of greenhouse at all or mist system. Sigh...but still trying with whatever stuff I can improvise. I saw a big patch of Palofoxia the other day at a park. The butterflies were so happy with them! And I saw a Black Swallowtail laying eggs on a plant there. I believe it was Dutchman's Breeches, Thamnosma texana, a wispy little plant unlikely to feed several caterpillars even at best. And this one had hardly any foliage at all left. So like the softie I am, I brought the eggs home to raise the caterpillars on whatever fennel and parsley I have left.
Awe... that was so sweet of you. I still have fennel growing if you find you need some more.
Linda I did get some seeds from the Sand Palafoxia that i put up the picture of.
I will be sharing those, they are such pretty flowers!!, the plants I took the seed from are still blooming.
Too bad thay are annuals, but being so pretty they are worth the extra effort.
The plants you gave me are all doing great, and I am about to collect seeds from the Lindheimer's Morning glory, which I will share with the group around here.
I am now getting ready for the College station R.U. this Saturday, this has been a very busy Fall.
I just finished my Master Naturalist course, and it was great, we learned so much about our area that we wern't aware of.
It is a very nice course, and very much worth doing.
Josephine.
Congratulations Josephine!!! I know you are glad to finish and get it behind you. You have been streching yourself thin the last month or so doing all you do. It is so great to see you doing something you so strongly believe in though. Way to go!
Thank you Sheila, I love it all, and it is so much fun!!!
Yes double congrats on finishing all that work - it will be good to see you slow down a little now that class is over.
Mitch! thank you, what are you up to lately?
We have also been busy with the Native plant search engine, I am not totally finished, but we have added two more features.
Best plants for North Central Texas, up to 100 miles radius of DFW.
Best Native plants for Butterflies.
Check it out, it is the search box in the center called Special Groupings, and let me know what you think.
Josephine.
You forgot the link to your website. http://www.texasstar.org/
It is a great search tool Josephine! I didn't have time to look much, need to get to work, but it is very easy to use. Wonderful job!
Will do - may not be until this weekend with everything we have here but will do!
Just a thoguht but you might want to have local plant places put their stock on there so lets say I was a Texcanus Nothingus I can go look it up and by the name it tells me who local carries it ( and who knows some places might pay some for this).. just a thought.
Congrats on your graduation, Josephine! I was Class 7 of the S.A. MN...now inactive, I'm afraid. Couldn't keep up the volunteer time once DH became so disabled. Would love some of that Palafoxia seed. Oh, and Nada, thanks for the tip on the mulch. We went by last weekend and had the truck filled up. Good stuff! I was surprised to see the Black Swallowtails use the Dutchman's Breeches. I used to have a plant here and never saw caterpillars on it. Guess the butterflies preferred the larger host plants in my garden. I also have some other eggs, left on my fennel plants from a recent visit by a Black Swallowtail mother to my yard. Kind of late in the season for those, but we'll see how it goes.
Glad you got some mulch... I love it...
My new favorite flower (Josephine, I almost said "weed"!!) is the Verbesina encelioides "Cowpen Daisy." I was in western Texas last weekend (Colorado City, just west of Abilene) and these lovely plants were in full bloom everywhere. And they were absolutely alive with butterflies. I have never seen a plant attract so many butterflies and so many different varieties of butterflies. I will definitely be looking for this beauty to add to my backyard in the spring.
Carla