I was just looking at my Angel Trumpet & it's looking very sick! :0( I have it ini a large container right in the middle of my garden.. it does get sun.. is that wrong? As I was under the assumption AND label directions etc that I could put this in the sun..it gets morning & afternoon shade.
I don't want to lose it as I really like this plant. Any advice oh wise ones?
Gardening with Texas Native Plants & Wildflowers, part 18
Are you referring to Datura or is it a Brugmansia?
I have you down for 2, Cheryl.
I went to the nursery (Calloway's) where I bought my Angel Trumpet & I have had to re plant it elsewhere..which is fine with me as it was not going to grow otherwise..it would have died once our summer hit! I am relieved to have it planted on my deck where it can still grow tall, get morning sun & afternoon shade. I'll probably enjoy it more now! I just hope it survives now as it's down to one tiny leaf!
These were along Hwy. 16 west of Helotes. It's so amazing this year, it makes you want to do nothing BUT look at the wildflowers and the butterflies also! If only I could have a few weeks to just drive around Texas this month...it would be heaven!
Bluebonnets still blooming in most areas.
Cacti is just started blooming in some areas.
This Greenthread is a SINGLE plant! Mother nature got loose this year and nobody can stop her...has a couple of years to make up for, I think.
They are all gorgeous Linda.
I hope the native milkweeds fair well this year, it will help with the recovery of the Monarch.
They're doing quite well down here. I guess the worst problem is probably the other wildflowers growing so giant and shading them out. Still very few butterflies of any kind, so I guess in a warped way that's good for milkweed propagation, as a lot more of them will be able to go to seed before the insect populations catch up.
We've got limestone gaura going nuts here, too. I've never seen it like this. Huge dinosaur-sized plants. I'll be curious if they take over next year, with so many seeds, or if it was just a one-time fluke of the weather.
I want a dinosaur sized plant! LOL It is an odd spring, lush growth on many plants and I am wondering what happens when the heat and drought finally show up.
Cheryl
I have a gaura that is as tall as I am this year. I had it in my mind that it's called Velvetleaf Gaura, but I'm trying to ID it for sure. It gets confusing when you have a common name that might be connected with more than one species.
What is the native guara called? I have a white one and the common pink variety but no idea about others.
C
I've had a hard time with identification because they're so freakishly big! I struggle with those book keys anyways, but some things it's like the proportions of the plant have changed - what should be closely spaced leaves are quite widely space, because what is supposed to be a groundcover is growing like a bush.
Supposedly the gauras hybridize, too. The ones I know that native hearabouts include
- limestone gaura, Gaura calcicola (west texas and the edwards plateau)
- red gaura, Gaura coccinea (west texas and the panhandle. It grows here if you plant it, but I don't think I've ever seen any clearly wild.)
- lizardtail (or velvetleaf for the non-dino-minded) gaura, Gaura mollis (omg, the wildflower center says this one blooms all the way through to October. They will be as big as trees!)
- white gaura, Gaura lindheimeri (East Texas to Louisiana, but grow fine here if you seed them. These seem to be normal-sized down here this year.)
- other white gaura (or drummond's gaura), Gaura drummondii
Looks like there's several others more or less native to the prairie part of the state, but calling themselves beeblossom.
Yes, apparently Gaura mollis and Gaura parviflora are the same species...that's what was confusing me. I don't remember it blooming until fall...they're already tall enough, I doubt it'll get much taller!
Gaura lindheimeri growing near my house.
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The most beautiful plant in my native bed this year so far is the endemic Texas Betony. I am sure I save some seeds last year, but lost track. I will make sure to spread them this year so I can share this great plant.
Wow Guys!! it is nice to see all those beautiful plants, I love the Texas betony too.
I have a plant that comes up from seed yearly but doesn't last through the winter. It looks like a red salvia and has square stems. Is that TX Betony?
C
It could be, but the betony just goes dormant, although it could come up from seed too.
I left mine outside in pots this winter and it took a beating but it still survived.
Maybe its just some sort of red, non-hardy salvia then. The plant I have has never come back from the roots. I only have small seedlings of it right now so I will post a pic of it later.
C
Does anyone have experience collecting seed from the greenthread? It's so thick, I'm really really not wanting much of it to go to seed where it is, but I would love to have the seed for elsewhere in the neighborhood. So I'd like to collect as early as possible but still be sure the seed have (or will) develop.
Also the gaura - I've never even fooled with seed from it before, because there's usually so little. So far it's made little hard green seed pods along the stem where each flower was. I'm guessing they will turn brown and then pop?
Thanks!
I guess lemon mint is the big bloomer here now, 3 feet tall or so. Still very few pollinators about...
I bought a large TX betony and it is doing poorly. It almost seems to be getting too much sun. It gets a lot of sun but I thought it was ok with that? I was wondering if it was maybe growing in more shade at the nursery and now it has to adapt to full sun.
C
yoo hoo! (waving arms) Can we have a new thread? Dial up stinks! (no bended knees) Please with sugar on it?
O.K. Ladies here is the link to the new thread, sorry it took me so long to start it.
Josephine.
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1095230/
Thank you so much.