I have been given a lot of plants over the years that I have decided to remove from my garden either because they simply started crowding things out (whether it was native or not) or because I found out that it was on an invasive species list for Texas. A lot of people confuse aggessive […]
Roses – There are still a few roses going here and there and most of the roses are working on replacement blooms after the first big flush. ‘Homestead’ trailing purple verbena – still has a few blooms on it, but it is just about done. Easter Lily – It finally showed up! ‘Gulf Coast’ Penstemon […]
Lamb’s Ear is such a cool herb! The scientific name is Stachys byzantina and it is native to Turkey, Armenia and Iran. The silvery evergreen leaves are soft and furry and almost feel like velvet. It’s grown more for the texture of the leaves, but it does also produce tiny purple flowers on tall stalks […]
Yarrow (Achillea spp.) is an upright lacy perennial with flat-topped clusters that is originally from Europe. Everything I have seen says to plant it in full sun, but I just moved mine to bright shade because it looked like it was getting a little burnt. We will see if that does it. Yarrow is very […]
The kids gave me a book for Mother’s Day called “The Little Big Book of Roses”. It is a collection of recipes, tips, literary excerpts, facts, lore… a little bit of everything. I love it! One of the recipes in it is for candied rose petals. Here it is… Candied Rose Petals Candied rose petals […]
Look at this rose! It does almost seem to glow doesn’t it? The “Glowing Peace” was introduced by Meilland in France in 1999. It is a hybrid tea and won the ‘All-American Rose Selection’ in 2001. This rose is very disease resistant and will grow on a tall bush to about 4 feet. Each 3-inch […]
I love daylilies! They have got to be one of the easiest flowers to grow in Texas. The daylily (Hemerocallis) is a tuberous root perennial. The leaves look sort of like grass and the flowers bloom from late spring until fall. Daylilies are incredibly disease resistant and they are drought tolerant, but they will multiply […]
Guess what we did this weekend! Go ahead and guess. I’ll wait. We scooped poop. A lot of it. We had to clean out the chicken run and, because of one thing or another, we were running a bit behind schedule. It really should have been done at least a month earlier, but this was […]
In Garndmother’s garden the hollyhocks Row upon row lifted wreathed stalks With bloom of purple, of pearly white, Of close-frilled yellow, of crimson bright. In Grandmother’s garden the roses red Grew in a long, straight garden bed, By yellow roses with small close leaves; Any yuccas – we called them Adams and Eves! Threaded with […]
We came up with a scathingly brilliant idea! We made a bird feeding station! Our bird feeding station has three sections on top. One section has jar lids screwed down on it to hold jelly for birds like orioles, mockingbirds and others with a sweet tooth. The second section is just an open space that […]
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