This is why I never get my garden planted in the fall. Once they go to school, hopefully I will have time to myself to be able to get somethings done! — Weather When Posted –Temperature: 86°F;Humidity: 58%;Heat Index: 90°F;Wind Chill: 86°F;Pressure: 30.03 in.;
We finally got our mulch! And since the mulch is so hot, I really can’t put it out around plants quite yet. BUT – I can put it out in the bed where I want to kill a lot of grass!! Now when I say hot, what I mean is literally HOT. It is steaming. […]
There is no gardening without humility. nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder. – Alfred Austin — Weather When Posted –Temperature: 84°F;Humidity: 56%;Heat Index: 86°F;Wind Chill: 84°F;Pressure: 30.11 in.;
Wow… for something that I wanted to try to do weekly, I sure haven’t kept up with this very well the past couple of weeks. A tour of the garden shows a lot of really exhausted plants. A lot of them look somewhat sunburned – including my aloe vera. There are some things still blooming […]
The Mrs. B.R. Cant is a tea rose that was introduced in England in 1901. Can you imagine? This rose has been handed down by cutting (asexual reproduction) for over 100 years! Mrs. B.R. Cant has an ARS rating of 8.7, which is very good. It is very disease and pest resistant. It also seems […]
It’s almost ready! I have no idea what kind this is. I think I remember it being Clemson Spineless, but I bought it so long ago that I could be wrong. I bought a Burgundy Okra one time too, but I know that is not what it is. I save a pod every year and […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
This is not not daylily I planted. It must have hybridized. The one I planted was a much plainer orange with no red. I love this! Here are some fun daylily facts that I found at About-Garden.com. 1.daylilies only come in yellow, orange and (muddy) red = FICTION ! FACT = there are now daylilies […]
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