Wow! It has been a while since I posted. What with the tornado (debris was finally picked up this week), the 100+ degree heat in June, and a mini ‘stay-cation’ (since John was finally able to get a few days off) I haven’t been able to get much done here or in the garden. And […]
Bison help to restore grass prairie near Lewisville Lake 12:00 AM CDT on Saturday, June 27, 2009 By WENDY HUNDLEY / The Dallas Morning News whundley@dallasnews.com Robert Vaughan emptied a sack of “buffalo candy” and called out to a herd of 30 bison grazing peacefully in a field at Lewisville Lake Environmental Learning Area. Photos […]
It has been just too miserably hot (and busy) lately to get out in the garden. And it’s beginning to show. The plants are all starting too look as wilted as I feel whenever I step outside the door. It is already too hot by 10am to really feel like I can get much done. […]
It’s still June and we are already having 100°+ days! According to the weather station at Rheudasil Park in Flower Mound, today’s high was 99.7 degrees. AccuWeather.com is forecasting tomorrow’s high to be 102 degrees with a “real feel” of 108 degrees. Heat advisory, humidity, “real feel” – gardening seems all but impossible. And the […]
They’re blooming! Hibiscus can be annuals or perennials in our area. Most of the really fancy hibiscus are annuals even here in the DFW area but this particular hibiscus, Hibiscus coccineus or the Texas Star, is a perennial and is cold tolerant all the way to zone 5. There are several cultivars – ‘Frisbee,’ ‘Southern […]
While I am away. While I am away from you, When we must be apart; Take these words I give to you, And tuck them in your heart. Keep them there inside of you, For only you to hear; Then if you’re ever lonely, Just know that I am near. You are the very sunshine, […]
The Ginkgo biloba is originally from China and is an ancient species that may date back as far as the late Permian period of the Paleozoic Era. That’s about 260 to 251 million years ago – the age of the dinosaurs. That is before the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. This tree must be doing […]
We have been eating meat free a lot this week. In spite of the tornado. we have been able to harvest a few wonderful veggies: tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, squash. Garden Fresh Spaghetti Squash OK, so the spaghetti squash I actually bought, but most everything else was from the garden. Ingredients: Spaghetti squash, tomatoes, peppers, yellow […]
I borrowed this book from the library, but I may have to buy a copy. Basically, the drive for fruitless trees in landscaping has led to higher and higher pollen counts in urban and suburban areas. There is no such thing as a trash free tree, it either drops fruit (including nuts and seed pods) […]
I was introduced to this plant as a “Tropical Blood Weed” but it’s one of those that goes by many names including Scarlet Milk Weed, bloodflower, silkweed, Indian root, and Mexican Milk Weed. Maybe it’s easiest to talk about this plant using its scientific name, Asclepias curassavica. In the tropics, this particular asclepias would be […]
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