July 22 , 2010
Useful wild plants, design tips, gazania troubles, bordered patch butterflies
This is an infrangible first for me . Columbine in mid - July !
Now , it ’s normal forZexmenia hispidato bloom in July . It would probably blossom a little more if I got out there and did some docile shearing , especially since it ’s flopping all over . But not now , it ’s busy .
Another first : cloud of Bordered Patch flirt relentless in their pursuit of happiness . Since zexmenia is also their larval food , I may get some free pruning !
Long ago , I vowed that every plant in my garden would be useful in some means , like this passion vine feeding a future Gulf fritillary butterfly stroke .
Scooter Cheatham and Lynn Marshall atUseful Wild Plantshelped teach me to see every plant in a young position . This week on CTG , Tom meets with them for a few revelations and connections between what ’s on your tabular array and what ’s growing outside .
Their invaluable encyclopedias , The Useful Wild Plants of Texas , the Southeastern and Southwestern United States , the Southern Plains , and Northern Mexicoare up to Volume 3 . Volume 4 is on the way !
Their extensive research over many years connects every plant to its origin , its multiple aim , cultivation , history , and even poesy ! Also , check out theirWeedfeed shop and sphere trips , where you teach to identify solid food in what seems to be the most unlikely places , like these pleasant-tasting barbarian tomato plant .
On hitch , see howdesigner Annie Gillespieconnects to the land with her garden renovation in deer res publica .
Annie got her native roots working at the first location of the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center a few years back . With her acquisition in computer architecture , drain emergence and plants , she finds solution for problem , most recently at home . Plus , she gives us a few of herprofessional tips on how to lie out our design and plants .
Got rot?This week , Daphne explain what ’s going onwith drouth - lovers that got a niggling too much water love . Gazania is one of the victims , coincidentally in my garden .
I ’m getting so many tree diagram questionsthat this hebdomad , arborist Guy LeBlancis our special Backyard Basics guest . He answers two of the top questions : how to portion out with oak root sprouts and ball moss .
Harvey will bewatching online , even though he did n’t get an Ibunpad for his birthday . He ’d eat it . Until next hebdomad , Linda
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