can camellias be grown in central Texas?
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Anyone growing Night Owl in Central Texas?
Comments (1)Hey Xtal: I can tell you a little based on my limited experience with this rose. Mine is still young but I will be moving it this spring to a location where it can grow on a trellis. The canes are pretty stiff even when young and I'm thinking that growing it in a sunny spot near the fence (on trellis) will be a good spot. Having said that there is a gal on this forum by the name of Celestial Rose who is growing hers on an arbor and apparently it has taken well to that kind of growing space. Providing you a link to my old thread on that topic. Hope this helps. Can't tell you anything about Night Owl and Texas I'm afraid. Kate Here is a link that might be useful: Support for Night Owl...See MoreSouth Central Texas Hosta Pic
Comments (16)Santa, whatever you are doing will work until you know better, then it goes downhill with a big OOPS. At least, that is my experience! And I am chuckling here, because I too started with about 6 or 8 plants and that was in 2010 when we had a house in Massachusetts too. I put about 3 in the ground in Alabama in 2011 May. Next year, which was 2012, by about June I was welcoming #200 in the mail. It was my Hosta Sparkler, still have it noted on its name tag. As they say, the rest is history. How far will it go this year for you? Now that you've made contact with the forum, we'll have to see. It's a wild and crazy ride, and it becomes more exciting as time goes by. As a side note, I ran into an old acquaintance at a meeting. She is a master gardener, so I mentioned that I was growing hosta now. To which she replied that oh, hosta don't grow here, they always die. Words to that effect. So I said I'd like to show her MY hosta, along about late May or early June, when I have everything all spiffy and under control. It is an amazing sight, and I want to see her face when she treads down the garden path beneath tall sasanqua camellias draped with spanish moss, solar lights twinkling on as the light fades, and the tall liriope and the naturalized ferns hide all the pots, the cypress mulch quiets our steps. It is total MAGIC. Then we'll see if she still believes hosta don't grow here. And I won't share a single plant, they are not mature!...See MoreGladiolus in Central Texas???
Comments (5)I have grown them with very good results in my yard. I'm about 30 miles west of Fort Worth. Those bulbs are heavy feeders after the blooms fade though so they take a lot of supplementing in late summer and fall. I add compost, bone meal and blood meal and earthworm castings if I have any. If you don't feed the bulbs the flowers the second year will be disappointing, and they might disappear altogether by the third year. On the good side, they are practically pest free and as cut flowers they are stunning. I agree with the others here, they do need staking to grow straight because the roots aren't strong enough to withstand the Texas winds. Cheryl...See MoreSugar Maples in Central Texas??
Comments (6)You'd have to be more specific of which sugar maple can be grown. Here is a list - Caddo Sugar maple from Oklahoma. - http://www.soonerplantfarm.com/plant/maple-sugar-caddo/ Mexican Sugar Maple - http://sfagardens.sfasu.edu/images/stories/PDF/acer%20skutchii%20-web.pdf Texas native sugar Maple - Bigtooth Maple - http://www.lovecreeknursery.com/Maple%20Colors.html Sugar Maple from the east will not do well in central Texas....See Moreforrestal
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