North Texas Roundup plant ID thread.

this is a lot larger than it appears.

LouC you had me wondering for a minute. Thought those were the leaves, but now I see you have another plant in with the Brug. The one round leaf in 2nd picture. is it off the Brug and what is the name of it.

It looks like the Cuban oregano I got from you, Ted.

That could well be.
My Brug cuttings I got from Burgie of Day Dreams did not make it. Fungus got to them before I seen it. So make sure you change the water more often then I do. LOL

It is a Cuban O. - LouC put all her winter cuttings in the one pot together.

My cutting came from the Victorian Tea Room in Waxahachie Texas. After lunch the proprietor gave us a tour of her herb garden. It is cuban oregano.
didn't mean to confuse. Guess because I know what it is expect everyone else to as well. There are little sprigs on all of the brug cuttings. yay!

I think it is perfect - getting them all in there together for the winter rest... I love the idea. My cuttings are each in their own little pot and take up WAY to much room.

They are growing because they are taunted by the "round-up" sitting nearby! LOL!

hahahaha. funnier than you know. Took rootbeer plants to Randy and Jeanne when we went to meet Shari in Houston. (Red Letter Day in Houston, Tropical Gardening forum). Well, have Autumn Joy Sedum looking great so I just took a couple of pieces and put them in each pot. Uh-oh aphids on the sedum. Grab something and spray..quick! Roundup. Grabbed the sedum and threw it. Ran the plants under the water and repotted. Should probably make it a little less accessible. It did kill the clover between the sandstone patio though.

Could be the sedum put out the word.

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I'm on my mom's PC. Happy Thanksgiving!!

Hope everyone got their fill of good food and are home safe once more. It snowed in Weatherford where we were this afternoon, but we headed out before it got too bad. Keep warm my friends!

Lou, you are a hoot! I can just picture the sedum shouting out a warning to all plants beware of the Roundup in Lou's hand.

Charlene

Hope everyone had a good thanksgiving. Ted

Oh my! I should have been here three weeks ago!
Patti they are you Hostas
Mamajack, I have been looking for your trees, did I get them. Anyway I planted every thing that looked like a tree in two big pots.
I got something from someone thats in a white double styroform cup.... what is it?
I got two pine trees in a white something look like a cigar container with hole at the bottom.
Kalanchole .... will it make it outside in this weather?

Kalanchoe is a tropical plant and needs to be inside during the winter here.

Yeah, Sylvia, did you mean the Saishu Jima? I finally figured that out. I also figured out that I'm way too old to remember what everyone tells me at the plant swap. Next time I'll take a marker. LOL!

My mom would like to plant her red buckeye seeds. Does anyone have suggestions for how to do this...ie. soaking, nicking, stratifying, etc?

Mine are sprouting now. I put them in a pot of damp soil and covered them with 1 inch of dirt. Did not soak or nick.

Thanks Ted!

what is this I have in those Double Styrofoams cups?

blue eyes...........the seeds need to stay moist all winter. last year i put 4 seeds in a jug, put a lid on it and stuck it in the refrigerator until feb. i kept it moist. i set the jug outside in feb. and along about mar. they all germinated but i lost one of them.

City Sylvia I brought some love plants in large foam cups w/double rim on them.
Bring in for the summer. Other wise it is an easy plant to grow. You can take starts off of it with leaves or stem.

I plant my Red buckeye seeds sideways, that is with the eye to the side instead of down.
When the seed sprouts it sends a root down and a leaf shoot up.
If the eye is pointing down the leaf shoot has to come around the seed to reach the surface, so if you plant it sideways it doesn't have to work so hard to come up.
I discovered this when I found a seed that had fallen off the tree and it was laying on its side, it had sprouted and the root had gone into the soil and the leaf shoot up with the seed totally exposed.
So I decided to follow natures way, and it has worked just great. I leave part of the seed
exposed like this but a little deeper, I made it more exposed so that the eye could be seen;
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/92644/
Josephine.

No one but Jo would ever be so observant. Thank you. My seed is staring me in the face on my desk. Will plant it today.

Yes, thank you Josephine for the picture. I will let my mom know how to plant it.

:) Kim

Thanks Ted, I do think I got them from you. Did you say they are called Love plants?

Josephine~:-)
I can't be sure, because I did not witness it....but I think a squirrel (or a rat, maybe) stole my buckeye seed. I went to water it and it had vanished. :-

With any luck, the goofy squirrel or whatever it was, planted the seed in a better spot.. Wouldn't that be a hoot?


debnes

That's funny Deb!

Yes Deb, squirrels are famous for that sot of thing, I will give you one of mine when i see you, but keep it where they can't get it.
Josephine.

I have very pesky squirrels. One trick, with bulbs or seeds, is tomato cages.

Josephine~
I will definitely guard the next one more carefully... I really didn't expect that at all. (The seed is almost bigger than his head, for heaven sake!)
I do feed them well as it is, the little piggies.

debnes

Bushy tailed RATS!

What neat picture Deb! When you look at these innocent looking little creatures, you think how cute. But when I discover they have dug my Hostas out the pot, I want to kill them. I dont think they dig in the ground ... why pots?

They dig in both at my house! They've also defeated all my baffles on my bird feeders.

Yeah Pattie & Sylvia, I think they find the baffles a challenge. The do-dad I have on my feeding stand is not actually for squirrels, it was for the Eurasian Collard Doves who would bully everyone else. So I put one of those wire hanging planter baskets up-side-down onto it and bent out places so they could fit in and out. Now everyone has to behave if they are going to eat...:-
The squirrel went in there one day, and I thought I would tap on the window.... It nearly cleared out all the seeds in there when he whirled around to find his way out... LOL!

At my house they even untie my plants to use the rope for nest building.

They totally destroyed the cushions on the swing while building nests. The mosquito netting on the canopy is shredded as well. They are on my list of *pests to be destroyed*.

oh, louc., i am sorry you have so many as to consider them pests. i love those lil' rats. lol. however, they are not out there destroying things here. this summer i found baby rabbits everywhere in my garden. i would lift up a plant and be startled for just a minute until my brain registered that it was a rabbit i was seeing. i am going to plant grasses and a few other things to give them some sort of sanctuary in our disappearing countryside. does anyone have any suggestions as to other plants that rabbits need?

Briars!

We have rabbits as well. They build their nests under our tool shed so the dogs can't get them. I have found them in little furlined nests practically on top of the ground. Raised 4 little ones a long time ago.

We also have a healthy population of opossum, armadillo, racoon, and for years there was a mountain lion roaming Ten Mile Creek. Lots of small dogs disappeared during that time. City hired a professionsal trapper but he didn't get it. Don't know what finally came of it. I know it was around for 9-10 years.

And of course, coyotes.