Need Texas hardy Baby's Breath
Amanda
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roselee z8b S.W. Texas
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WANTED Perennial Baby's Breath, Elderberry, Blackberry & Wisteria
Comments (4)I have cut leaf elderberry and also the dark leafed one, can't think of the name this second. Do you happen to have any amsonia hubrectii? I really need quite a bit of that. Liriope would be nice, too...I'll have to check and see if it is hardy here....See MoreHardy Annuals for Winter Sowing List
Comments (2)No, I just "converse" via the forum. Perhaps so, but I was a bit upset when she was kind of chiding us the other day for discussing changes in the zoning map, etc. People are concerned and I think it IS an appropriate place to discuss those concerns. What and where else? I felt like she was being a bit "controlling"? I really would like to see Paul James take her on his show, though. Poor Annie. You need to get some big strong help like I'm going to do. I just can't do that heavy stuff anymore. Plus, I have a disease called alacka. I lack the talent to work with fencing, posts, hammers, nails, boards, etc. Do you know that I saw Ralph Waldo Emerson's house in Massachusetts near Concord? And his garden? I went to see a lot of the writer's homes - Thoreau, Longfellow, Louisa Mae Alcott, Dickinson, etc. It is so beautiful there in the spring. Also saw Walden's Pond. Beautiful, absolutely beautiful. Gardens and flowers and trees are just stunning up there. They can grow hydrangeas much better than I. The Cape is lovely - we had breakfast at a little coastal breakfast inn - blueberry scones! Saw the sun set on Race Point (furthest point you can go on the Cape). Ferried over to both islands. Lovely, lovely, lovely. Saw the famous Merrimack, House of Seven Gables, Salem, North Church, loved Boston, seafood (can't eat it here anymore), great great great. I was lucky. I got to go with my job, so all expenses paid. Otherwise, I would never have had the opportunity. Winter is like Currier & Ives. But long, very, very long. Roads are never a problem there, though. Susan...See MoreListing of Texas Super Tough UnStoppable Plants!
Comments (38)Hello Everyone, Since the scope of the listing of unstoppable Texas plants was so broad, I thought I would narrow it down to just super tough plants that add fragrance to your garden! My limited personal experience only consists of a few plants, and they only produce fragrance for only a part of a season (I have parts of the year that I need to fill with fragrance)! Hopefully you all can help me expand my garden so that at least I can have something to walk by at any time of the year and have something nice to smell! Here is my listing of what I know: Lady Banks - My white one actually has some fragrance to it, although it isn't as nice of a smell as some of the other flowers, it does have fragrance. This is a springtime blooming/fragrance plant. Wisteria - Again, another super tough plant, but only blooms and has fragrance in the spring. (BWT, my 5 gal plant that I got last year seems to only produce leaves, but no flowers/fragrance! Did I get a lemon, or does it have to mature more?) Violet Lantana - I was surprised late last summer(maybe even fall?) last year when I walked by my light purple lantana and couldn't figure out where the nice smell was coming from! I had a mental block thinking that Lantanas only produced nice looking flowers! Copper Canyon Daisy - This plant actually has more of an herb fragrance when the wind blows through it, but it does produce fragrance all year (well, actually, I always cut mine back every year, and it takes a few months for it to grow back enough to have enough leaves to create fragrance!) Texas Mountain Laurel - I learned of this one from the FW BG, so I bought a couple 1 gals, but it looks like it is going to take forever for it to get big enough to bloom and produce flowers/fragrance! It is tough and evergreen, but it only seems to produce fragrance in the spring as well. Does anyone have any suggestions for fragrance the whole year round? Even having different plants with different fragrances at different times would be nice too! Here is a link that might be useful: Listing of Texas Super Tough UnStoppable Plants!...See MoreTexas Easter Woodland Walk About
Comments (10)The money for a 7' deer fence around this land is not in my bank account, nor the energy. The mountain lion comes and goes but they roam and people in the neighborhood still insist on feeding the deer. The lion has been around a lot this year and the deer are much more timid. I have sen tracks and scat within 100' of the house.I actually see some blooming Yucca rupicola and hesperaloe in the woods. The hesperaloe is planted by me. . The Y. rupicola have not successfully bloomed in years. They have been decapitated in their deer asparagus stage. Every year I see tons of the stalks and every night the deer tease me and clip them off here and there till they are all gone. They fool with my hope every year. I am still holding my breath. These are just in the close by area around my buildings. I am too lazy to walk out too far today. I have to get to work. It is GREEN this year. As of tueday Texas and OK is now without Exceptional drought anywhere in the 2 state area for the first time in about a decade. Let see how long that lasts. I think this state of wetness is as ephemeral as the mushroom caught in the thorns of my cactus garden....See MoreAmanda
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