What to do when it's 25 degrees outside - share your garden pics!
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Comments (64)I love looking at pics when I can't work outside. Here's a few babies. Char's( my sister) Zinnia Mix ws. red poppies ws. Blue fescue ws. Pattie Here is a link that might be useful: Some plants...See MoreIt's 110 degrees and I'm outside and blooming
Comments (20)I line water the trees once a week for 1 hour. I only use the sprinklers once every 7 days for three,consecutive, ten minute rounds to give the water time to soak in. If I let the sprinklers run 30 minutes straight I get massive run off. I have to hand water the hell strip (plants between the sidewalk and the street) as any other way will mostly run off. The back yard sod is dormant except for a 5' wide area next to the foundation to prevent heaving/cracks near the house. My small, suburban front yard is 2/3 heavily mulched xeric plants. The actual area of my sod is smaller than my driveway. It's mostly a 5-7' wide path. The bed next to the doorway has the heaviest plantings and flowers. The rest of the beds are 1/3 plants and 2/3 mulch. Otherwise there is no way I could afford to keep it green, much less flowering. I copied my yard from Wasawaski's native plant book, demo gardens at Weston Gardens, and the gardens featured on Texas smartscape. It's not as pretty as the more exotic gardens,especially in spring, but it can take a brutal summer in Texas....See MoreShare your Succulent Garden PICS!
Comments (49)Neil,sorry i don't know the name of those red leaved plants.My sons gf gave me that plant 2 years ago for mothers day,and it has several different succulents on it,there's also an orangy one on it that i like. Joe you're off to a very good start,quite a few nice ones you have there.Be careful though,they are so addicting. Hope you guys in san diego are getting this rain like we are up here in Oceanside.I'm loving it!! Kathi...See MoreIt's Halloween....share your scary gardening stories and creature pics
Comments (10)My scary story involves being a Florida gardening neophyte and not realizing that everything I planted was going to either get huge or run everywhere! Bamboo that was supposed to be Golden Goddess, but it isn't. When first planted and second photo from a couple years ago--bamboo stalks are even larger now. I planted this clerodendron from a tiny pot from a garden club sale. Now it has spread itself all around, 30 feet from its original plant. I am chopping down suckers everywhere. I planted a blue clockvine on a trellis. It got huge and died back in the frost, leaving ugly black leaves and bare stems, so I dug it up and threw it on the side of the lot. Now it covers all the scrub growth for quite a distance. I love the Dombeya seminole I planted, but now it covers up everything else--under its spreading branches are three roses, a bird of paradise, two pineapple plants, and several crinum lilies. But it's just starting to bloom, so how can I prune it now??? To the right of the Dombeya is a Carolina jessamine--climbing into the gutters. How was I to know it would get so BIG? I have several other examples, including a fern a neighbor gave me that is spreading everywhere, a Calliandra powderpuff that got huge and has to be put back every year or the neighbor's yard disappears under it, a coral honeysuckle that got so thick it collapsed the trellis it is growing on .... Marcia...See Morebella rosa
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