tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-294145562024-03-23T12:47:25.275-05:00The Transplantable RoseWelcome to my Austin garden! Once a gardener in Illinois, I now bloom and grow in Austin, Texas. You may also enjoy the videos of my original songs, birds and gardening.Annie in Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14662139490401110432noreply@blogger.comBlogger327125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29414556.post-20726706799787741162018-07-03T14:19:00.000-05:002018-07-03T14:19:45.862-05:00May 2018 Garden Scrapbook<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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every day, the world is a mess and good friends are in the hospital and/or
rehab. So what can I do? <br />
I can’t march but I can be registered to vote. I can send contributions to the
<a href="https://www.centraltexasfoodbank.org/" target="_blank">food bank</a> and <a href="https://betofortexas.com/" target="_blank">Beto</a> and <a href="https://www.raicestexas.org/" target="_blank">RAICES</a>. I can make phone calls to people in rehab. I can
work on my songs. And I can still put up garden photos once in awhile. Here are a few from May.</div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>A</b></span></span> yellow warbler stopped by on May 3<sup>rd</sup>. Some of
the little birds like to hop around the bottom of the birdbath fountain… maybe
they feel safer there? They sometimes sip from the side of the stone.</div>
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Tiny leaves appeared on the over-wintered Musical Notes
clerodendron/<i>Clerodendrum incisa</i> on May 10<sup>th</sup>. Every spring I watch
and wait and wonder if this will be the year it stays dormant and doesn’t wake
up. That will no doubt happen some spring but it’s alive this year!</div>
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By May 11<sup>th</sup> both the pomegranate and the
pineapple guava were in bloom. When they flower together the secret garden is
gorgeous and gaudy. Unfortunately they never do make any fruit (the orchardist
equivalent of All Hat and No Cattle?) but what lovely hats.</div>
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A couple of days later the fragrant double Mock Orange was
in bloom. A decade ago I carried a tiny rooted piece from my parents’ home in
Illinois here to my Texas garden. Their house belongs to other people now but I
have this sweet memory.</div>
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I had an Oak Leaf Hydrangea in Illinois 20 years ago and am
glad I tried it here. The shrub does well in partial shade but that comes with
a side effect in my yard. The pecan trees create shade but they also drop vast
amounts of spent pollen tassels on everything under their canopy.</div>
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and blooms was half of what they can do in a good year. 'Best of Friends’ is
pleasing even with fewer stalks and flowers.</div>
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Did you watch or read about any of the Royal Wedding? Some
articles mentioned the components of Meghan Markle’s bouquet as being myrtle.
My dwarf Greek myrtle had quarter-sized flowers in bloom that day. I think the myrtle grown in
England is slightly different but this variety can survive in Austin, it’s
fragrant and pretty and bouquet-worthy!</div>
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Last year I noticed a small shrubby plant that had popped up
in a border. It looked vaguely familiar so I let it grow until fall. After it
went dormant I chopped it down to 12 inches. The plant woke up, made leaves and
by May 28<sup>th</sup> a few flowers had opened. So far it looks like an
American Beautyberry/ <i>Callicarpa americana </i>but I’m not sure yet. Will this gift
from the birds be a good gift or a bad surprise? </div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">This post May 2018 Garden Scrapbook was written by Annie in
Austin for her Transplantable Rose blog </span></i></div>
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April Fool! Here’s what is left of that viola bowl.</div>
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The is the first time two blooms were open at the same time
on these pale yellow Louisiana iris. They make a lot of leaves and take up a
lot of space but are stingy with bloom.</div>
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The white eye ring makes me pretty sure this cute bird is a
Nashville Warbler. They’re not here all year but they’re here for a lot of the
year.</div>
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Iris and columbine – a favorite combination.</div>
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The unscented native Mock Orange (<i>Philadelphus inodorus</i>) was
spectacular this spring, and even prettier with a swallowtail butterfly
hovering.</div>
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At one time I had four clematis vines but I was not a good
enough gardener to keep them alive. I’m grateful for the lovely no-name
clematis that has survived.</div>
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This purple iris is usually the last of the bearded iris to
bloom – this year it’s backed up by annual poppies and Coriander/Cilantro in
bloom.</div>
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My Byzantine Gladiolus is a treasured passalong from a
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Against my advice, a pair of cardinals made a nest in the
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fountain. The male cardinal then attempted to chase every blue jay from the
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Since the Lesser Goldfinches are here all year long we
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In the middle of April I saw a lone Monarch fluttering
around one bed. Most of the milkweed froze and the few surviving milkweed
plants were just starting to regrow. After checking out the bluebonnets the
butterfly left.</div>
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Third week in April and the pecans are putting out leaves
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After the green bowl smashed I rescued the violas and put
them into a hanging basket. In the third week of April I added a hot pink
calibrachoa.</div>
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Our pomegranate tree had a lot of blooms this year. We’ve
never had a single pomegranate fruit – will this be the year we do?</div>
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Larkspur reseeds every year but the number of plants keeps
going down as the garden matures and the sunny spots shrink.</div>
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The climbing mini-rose is called Red Cascade and it’s a real
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Tiny wildflower Venus’ Looking Glass deserves a closeup
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When the hard freezes came most of the developing loquat
fruits dropped off the tree. Only these three loquats matured. It’s OK – while
I like the fruit, I like the tree more.</div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">B</span></b></span>ulbs of <i>Leucojum aestivum </i>AKA Snowflakes showed up in
Costco a few autumns back. Adding a bag to the cart turned out to be a
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Late freezes often kill the buds of Texas Mountain Laurels
before they ever open – this year we were lucky and the purple, scented blooms
were abundant. Hot spells often ruin the blossoms soon after they open – this
year we were lucky and moderate weather let them bloom for the longest time I
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The bluebonnet seedlings began to bloom in the second week
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The entire top half of the Meyer’s Improved Lemon tree had
frozen back and was definitely dead. When my daughter came to visit she picked
up the big loppers.</div>
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I first saw this unusually colored bird in January and
managed to catch a photo in March. The knowledgeable birders on Twitter
confirmed my guess that it is a partially <b><a href="https://www.allaboutbirds.org/what-can-cause-birds-to-show-weird-color-variations-such-as-being-all-or-partly-white-or-unusually-dark/" target="_blank">leucistic</a> </b>chickadee.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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This was a good spring for all types of iris. Some heirlooms
that had barely bloomed in 2017 were lovely in 2018. I’ve had this fragrant
peach iris since 2001 and have shared divisions with Divas of the Dirt friends
and fellow Austin bloggers. It’s fun to see it blooming in their photos!</div>
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We put this bench near the <i>Magnolia figo</i>. For a few weeks at
the end of March and beginning of April it’s a pleasure to sit and smell the
banana magnolia flowers</div>
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Before the pecans leaf out the back yard has sun. Many of
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I’m glad I took this photo of the violas on the windowsill.
That green bowl planter was a favorite and it’s gone now. After it went out in spring,
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</span>pushed it off the table to shatter on the concrete patio.</div>
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Can we still call it a Christmas cactus if it blooms in
mid-January?</div>
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By the end of the month the self-seeded bluebonnets were
growing. This one spouted in the joint of a wooden step where it would be both
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We had some very cold days in January – down to 15<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol;">°</span></span>F
early one morning. The Meyer’s Improved Lemon was not improved by this freeze.
Looks like another year without lemons.</div>
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But a hardy little self-seeded violet bloomed at the end of
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">A </span></b></span>few days later the February camellia gave a
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By mid-February the Loropetalum frills were out.</div>
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By the end of February what was left of the Carolina Jessamine
showed buds. Poor thing was once gorgeous, but its corner of the garden is now
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Also by the end of February the earliest camellia flower
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By AnnieinAustin for her Transplantable Rose Blog
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Do you see what I see? That patch of red School House lilies
means that the hours of daylight are reduced in number and the chance of a 100F
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Whether you call them School House Lilies, Oxblood Lilies or
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Only one Hurricane Lily has popped up so far – they’re
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The School House lilies and Hurricane Lilies bloom only once
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Alyssum, prostrate rosemary and basil keep bees happy with
small white flowers in the herb troughs.</div>
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Two really deep freezes in an otherwise warm winter knocked
off many container plants. Those empty pots were depressing! When guests were
expected in March I picked up a few big-box store begonias as temporary
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With hummingbirds in mind, we moved one of the obelisks from
the shady back bed to the sunny triangle and planted Cypress vine at the base,
where <i>Salvia coccinea</i> in coral and red and <i>Salvia greggii</i> in lavender and white
already grew. Adding a punch or orange is some self-seeded milkweed.</div>
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A mystery plant showed up on the edge of the patio in spring
– probably the seed was dropped by a bird. I watched it grow all summer,
topping out at 7 feet, then forming seedheads.</div>
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At one point I thought it was Frostweed, but the tiny,
fringed, flowers have no collar of petals like Frostweed. A friend made a
tentative ID of<i> Eupatorium odoratum</i>. There is a definite pleasant fragrance so
that sounds right to me. Butterflies and bees love it!</div>
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Staying low and gently spreading on the edge of the patio is
Cobweb Spiderwort, once kept in a container. Last year I flipped a few
broken-off stems onto the gravel and put small rocks over the ends.
<i>Tradescantia sillamontana</i> loved the gravel, rooted and grew beautifully. When
the cold weather killed most of the original plant, only the tips of this clump
were damaged and it repaired itself speedily.</div>
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You won’t see much of a show today from the Blue Butterfly
flower (AKA <i>Rotheca myricoides</i>, formerly<i> Clerodondrum ugandense</i>). A few
bleached blooms remain on the plant in the triangle bed and the other big plant
has only buds.</div>
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The daisy-shape in this little scene used to come from
native perennial Blackfoot Daisies but they were barely annual here, not
perennial. This year I put in the very similar looking <i>Zinnia angustifolia</i>.
Only a few cosmos sprouted this year and I am glad to have them.</div>
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Happy Garden Bloggers Bloom Day to all of you and to <a href="http://www.maydreamsgardens.com/2017/09/garden-bloggers-bloom-day-september-2017.html" target="_blank">Carol at May Dreams,</a> ringmaster of this monthly floral circus.
http://www.maydreamsgardens.com/2017/09/garden-bloggers-bloom-day-september-2017.html</div>
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Annie in Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14662139490401110432noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29414556.post-39481245636287246972016-03-08T23:39:00.000-06:002016-03-08T23:39:04.234-06:00Oh Please, Dear March, Don't Turn Into a LionIn early March 2015 late deep freezes blasted the Texas Mountain Laurels and I wrote this lament.<br />
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This year March arrived sweetly, and everything has been pretty peachy so far - but crazy early.<br />
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The oldest Texas Mountain Laurel bloomed unfrozen for the first time in years. It's fading now but wonderful to see.<br />
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The fig, Forest Pansy redbud and dwarf pomegranate have leaves.<br />
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A few Bluebonnets have opened with Blackfoot daisies.<br />
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and the white-flowered, passalong Cemetery iris have started, too.<br />
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A bag of Leucojum/Snowflake bulbs were an impulse buy last fall - oh, how glad I am this spring that I gave in to temptation!<br />
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Closeup of the snowflakes - we can't have snowdrops and we can't have Lily of the Valley, but by gum we can have Leucojum 'Gravetye Giant'.<br />
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Yesterday the Lady Banks rose began to pop.<br />
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And the peach iris began to stretch their flower stalks up to the sun.<br />
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Tonight Austin is under a watch for thunderstorms with possible hail so as usual it's fingers crossed for no bad surprises. <br />
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Annie in Austin, writing at the Transplantable Rose blog Annie in Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14662139490401110432noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29414556.post-9406400543164538152016-02-02T21:39:00.000-06:002016-02-02T21:39:53.267-06:00Groundhog Day What's In Bloom List<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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neighborhood had some cold nights recently but I’m pretty sure the temperature
hasn’t dropped below 28F and there are still flowers around the yard. I think
many of these blooms will be frozen in the expected next round of cold weather.
Instead of waiting for the 15<sup>th</sup>, it seems like a better idea to make
a Ground Hog Day bloom list. This is what I saw outside today. </span></div>
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daigremontianum</i> syn. <i>Kalanchoe daigremontiana</i> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>AKA Mother of Thousands, Alligator Plant – blossoms just opening.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><i>Camellia
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ugandense</i> – Blue butterfly flower, rooted cutting on windowsill. A few buds. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><i>Justicia
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blossfeldiana</i>? Florist's Kalanchoe, two of three plants blooming in breakfast
room window.</span><br />
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tazetta</i> ‘Grand Primo/ small daffodil, highly recommended for Austin area by
Scott Ogden, many buds and opened flowers in front near steps.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><i>Rosmarinus
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but newer flowers are pure yellow.</span><br />
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spp– annuals, various hybrids of Pansies and violas in containers and hanging
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to my plant spreadsheet, I was at the annual <a href="http://www.zilkergarden.org/ZGF/" target="_blank"><b>Zilker Garden Fest</b></a> on March 27, 2010, and
spent a few dollars on one young plant of Sweet violet/ <i>Viola odorata</i> 'Royal
Robe' from Emerald Garden Nursery's booth. Violets grew wild in the grass in Illinois
but I had never seen any in Austin and I missed them. The little plant was tucked into the
center of the back yaupon bed but if that violet ever bloomed, I missed the
show and didn't take a photo or add it to a bloom list. On the spreadsheet, the
plant name had been moved to the Dead section with a brief note: No sign,
spring 2012.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Last fall
I planted a few snowflake bulbs, shaking cayenne pepper over the ground in
hopes it would keep squirrels from digging them up. Oh, what’s this? There was is a little
clump of what looked like violet leaves. I set a rock next to it as a mower guard
and checked it once in awhile.</span></span></div>
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I was surprised to see an open flower and a few buds, looking very much like
the photos of 'Royal Robe' online. So what happened? Even if I saw no flower
petals, many violas can make seeds from closed, self-pollinated cleistogamous
flowers that grow near the ground.</span></span><br />
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the original plant made seeds that refused to germinate during five long years
of drought and heat, but when the rains came and the reservoir lake refilled
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;">This post "The Insistence of Violets" was
written by Annie in Austin for her Transplantable Rose blog</span></i><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;">.</span>Annie in Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14662139490401110432noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29414556.post-10635921453612080332015-02-16T23:24:00.000-06:002015-02-16T23:24:53.886-06:00Garden Bloggers Bloom Day, February 2015When <a href="http://www.maydreamsgardens.com/2007/02/garden-bloggers-bloom-day-inaugural.html" target="_blank"><b>May Dreams Carol proposed her idea </b></a>of bloggers everywhere posting photos of what was in bloom each month, I was up for it, and made a post for the <a href="http://annieinaustin.blogspot.com/2007/02/garden-bloggers-bloom-day.html" target="_blank"><b>first Garden Bloggers Bloom Day</b></a> on February 15th, 2007. That was a long time ago by internet-standards... Carol's idea has staying power! <br /><br />
Sometimes I post for GBBD, sometimes not - but I wanted to be part of the 8th anniversary. This winter has been relatively normal, bringing some rain and multiple freezes, with the lowest temperature in my garden about 20F. That was cold enough to knock off many tender plants. Then some recent warm days spurred plants into bloom - these daffodils began opening last week. The clump has increased - there were only 3 flowers in 2007.<br />
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Yesterday was mild with strong winds fluttering the leaves and petals as I tried to take photos. A cold front arrived this morning, dropping temperatures 30 degrees in an hour, with a good chance it will freeze tonight and tomorrow night. <br />
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As I formatted yesterday's photos and wrote about the weather, the feeling of <span class="st">déjà vu</span> was so strong it made me dizzy. I reread that first GBBD post from 2007 and realized that most of the plants that bloomed eight years ago are blooming now. They've have some bad springs and some good springs, but they're still in the game. <br />
<br />Here's the Carolina Jessamine/<i>Gelsemium sempervirens</i>. Yes, those individual flowers may freeze, but the vine has thousands of buds in various stages of development, so reserved buds can still live to bloom later.<br />
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More of the yellow daffodils grow in front, with the clump increasing slowly. A light freeze won't ruin them - but they'll collapse if a February heat wave pops up and fries them.<br />
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These bulbs of Narcissus tazetta 'Grand Primo' were blooming for the first time in 2007. They look happy and quite pretty in this spot near the veranda steps. However, you may like them better in a photo than up close in real life. Some people call them fragrant, but I think they stink. <br />
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In Texas we buy pansies and violas in late autumn and enjoy their flowers until the heat gets them in late spring. <br />
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Texas Mountain Laurel is a beloved native shrub here in Austin, bearing clusters of fragrant, deep violet-blue flower. We eagerly await their bloom every year. In some parts of Austin they are trouble-free, but I've learned not to hope too hard for flowers in my far NW neighborhood, where a shrub covered in buds can lose every floret over one cold night.<br />
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That 'Fantasia Salmon' geranium blooming in the breakfast room in February 2007? Not blooming today, but it has buds, and May Dreams Carol says buds count! It's grown taller, too. <br />
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Just as in 2007, Rosemary is in bloom, along with the Sweet Olives outside. But now there are multiple varieties of Rosemary and double the number of Sweet Olives. Zoom in on the geranium photo and you can see buds, flowers and tiny lemons developing on the Meyers lemon, and a holiday cactus/Schlumbergia still in bloom.<br />
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<br />Missing from 2007 is the Coral Honeysuckle, alive but not thriving in increasing shade with competition from tree roots. Adding some gaudy to the list of blooms for February 2015 is the just-past-prime Pius X Camellia. <br />
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<br /><br />And with luck this old Cemetery Iris will still be able to open<br />
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and the buds of Four Nerve daisy will raise their bright faces to the sun<br />
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ready to shine for Garden Bloggers Bloom day in March. <br />
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If your garden is under snow and winter seems endless take heart - it may be slow but it will come! <br />
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<i>This post was written by Annie in Austin for her Transplantable Rose blog. </i>Annie in Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14662139490401110432noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29414556.post-67057728870368351712014-12-05T12:48:00.000-06:002014-12-05T12:48:43.331-06:00My Blog Does NOT Belong to Texas Outdoorsmen! Are you seeing this blog post on blogspot? Or are you seeing it at TexasOutdoorsmen dot com? <br />
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if you're seeing my posts and photos on the TexasOutdoorsmen dot com
site, it is absolutely without my permission. This website has been
copying my garden blog and garden blogs belonging to many of my garden friends, and we want it to stop. <br /><br />I may not post that often, but putting my copyrighted words and photos on my blog does not mean that other websites can proceed to repost my work - and it's especially annoying when my work is used to pump up those websites to attract revenue-producing ads. <br />
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TAKE MY POSTS DOWN, TEXAS OUTDOORSMEN!!!<br />
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Darn it, I was actually in the mood to tell you what's been happening in the garden, and how beautiful the Oak Leaf Hydrangea has been this year...<br />
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<br />Annie in Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14662139490401110432noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29414556.post-19786914409426304302014-09-30T22:34:00.000-05:002014-12-05T16:56:12.512-06:00Passalongs and Reseeders Say Happy Autumn<br />
<b><span style="color: red;">DECEMBER 5, 2014: Are you seeing this blog post on blogspot? Or are you seeing it at TexasOutdoorsmen dot com? <br />if you're seeing my posts and photos on the TexasOutdoorsmen dot com site, it is absolutely without my permission. This website has been copying my garden blog and garden blogs belonging to many of my garden friends, and we want it to stop.</span></b><br /><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: red;"><b>A</b></span></span>fter August 2014 tied the tile for <span style="color: #660000;"><i>Second Driest August on Record</i> </span>in Austin, many of us gardeners were not looking forward to September! But then the temperature dropped a few degrees and in mid-September several inches of rain fell. That's all it took to divert September 2014 from the hot, dry path it had been following to a gentler trail - the path to a flowery September. <br />
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Many of the current flowers descend from plants bought years ago. The original plants are long gone, but seedlings can keep a strain going through repeated reseeding. <br />
The original<i> Gaura lindheimeri </i>started in a patio container - it was a short-lived perennial, but eight years later there's a convention being held in the front center bed. <br />
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A 4-inch pot from a <a href="http://sunshinecommunitygardens.org/" target="_blank"><b>Sunshine Community Gardens</b></a> sale in 2005 held one seedling Blue Butterfly pea/ <i>Clitoria ternatea</i>. I usually save a few seeds just in case, but this year's vine sprouted on its own.<br />
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Orange cosmos seeds gleaned from the courtyard garden of a long-gone restaurant produced plants that make several generations every year... goldfinches like them. The harsh freezes of March knocked off all the existing plants of <i>Salvia coccinea</i>/Hummingbird sage, and germination of what seeds still lay in the ground was slow. Now in September, the annual Hummingbird sage blooms in every corner of the garden, red, orange, pink, coral and white. Planting them together near the fluorescent 'Catawba' crepe myrtle was not my idea! <br />
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Some seedlings are promises rather than Plants. Here are a few bluebonnet seedlings with cilantro. If at least a few of these sprouts can survive snails, pillbugs & cold freezes, we'll be very happy. <br />
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The passalong plants of September are not reseeders - they are houseplants, bulbs, native plants and perennials. <br />
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One small passalong Stapelia plant from my Aunt Phyll has supplied many rooted cuttings over the years - this one is blooming 25 years after she gave me the original plant. <br />
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Whether you call them Oxblood Lilies or Schoolhouse Lilies, anyone who gets a passalong <i>Rhodophiala bifida</i> bulb is a lucky Austin gardener. Most of the bulbs in my garden are offsets from the originals shared by MSS of<b> Zanthan Gardens </b>in 2006. The first flowers were open on September 8th this year <br />
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The last of the red bells hung on today, September 30th <br />
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Pam Penick of <b>Digging</b> and <a href="http://www.penick.net/digging/?page_id=17902" target="_blank"><i><b>Lawn Gone </b></i></a>fame gave me this passalong Mexican Oregano in February 2007 - it's happy with the recent weather<br />
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In May 2007, <b>Marthachick </b>gave me a sack full of unidentified Crinum bulbs - I planted them all over and one of them ended up in a large permanent container on the edge of the patio. <br />
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From every angle, it's a winner! <br />
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In spring of 2008 my friend Ellen gave me a start from her Blue Butterfly clerodendron/<i>Clerodendrum ugandense</i>, one that's been seen in many a blog post. This well-established plant froze hard to the roots in March but recovered to start blooming in late summer. New flower heads should keep developing until a freeze stops the fun. And it's cool to know that Ellen's plant had been passed along to her from her mother-in-law. I've tried my hand at propagating Blue Butterfly from cuttings with very limited success, but I won't give up yet - it needs to be passed along to someone else. <br />
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A couple of years after we moved here, I bought a few bulbs of <i>Lycoris radiata</i>/Red Spider Lilies AKA Hurricane lilies and planted them. They made leaves, but I never saw a flower. Then in November 2008, MSS of <b>Zanthan Gardens</b> divided and shared some of her Red Spider Lilies. The Divas of the Dirt had made a sunny new bed in the front yard earlier that year so I tucked some of the bulbs in there. In 2009 every Lycoris produced leaves only, but in 2010 the remnants of Hurricane Hermine arrived with 13" of rain and tada! Hurricane lilies. This year a few inches of rain were enough to coax them out. <br />
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Some of the Lycoris were planted near the Sweet Olive but it was too shady. Last fall I transplanted the bulbs to this bulb bed and they responded like this. <br />
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Did you notice the dates on the above passalong plants? I really expected that by now the bulbs would have flourished and increased so they could be freely shared - but that didn't happen. At least some of each plant is alive, but year after year of heat and drought seems to have kept these plants from multiplying the way they once did. <br />
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The final passalong plant for September is a new one to me - GoldenEye Sunflower/<i>Viguiera dentata. </i>It's <a href="http://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=VIDE3" target="_blank"><b>native to Central Texas</b></a>. <br />
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<b>Tina of the My Gardener Says</b> blog sent me home with two starter plants last November, saying the finches would like them. <br />
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The little plants were alive through winter, but the killer March deep-freeze knocked them back to below ground. I was thrilled to see leaves emerge in mid-April and watched the 2 plants slowly bulk up through the summer. Buds appeared earlier in September and then the golden daisies began to open<br />
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I like their sunny faces, and the plant is a good size for this spot. <br />
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Thank you for a flowery September to so many sharing gardeners! To MSS at <b><a href="http://www.zanthan.com/gardens/gardenlog/" target="_blank">Zanthan Gardens</a> </b> to Pam at <a href="http://www.penick.net/digging/" target="_blank"><b>Digging</b></a>, and<a href="http://mygardenersays.com/" target="_blank"><b> Tina at My Gardener Says</b></a>, thank you to<a href="https://www.blogger.com/profile/14518468744405768043" target="_blank"><b> MarthaChick</b></a>, thank you good friend <span style="color: lime;"><b>Ellen</b></span> and thank you to dear Aunt Phyll.<br />
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Annie in Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14662139490401110432noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29414556.post-51177289083981946552014-09-25T01:44:00.000-05:002014-12-05T16:56:47.883-06:00Clerodendrum incisa - the Musical Notes Plant <b><span style="color: red;">DECEMBER 5, 2014: Are you seeing this blog post on blogspot? Or are you seeing it at TexasOutdoorsmen dot com? <br /><br />if
you're seeing my posts and photos on the TexasOutdoorsmen dot com site,
it is absolutely without my permission. This website has been copying
my garden blog and garden blogs belonging to many of my garden friends, and we want it to stop.</span></b> <br />
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If you live in Central Texas you probably know one of the most interesting nurseries in Austin- <a href="http://www.bartonspringsnursery.net/" target="_blank"><b>Barton Springs Nursery </b></a>on Bee Caves Road <br />
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It's a fine place to buy full-size plants, shrubs, trees, native plants and roses. For experimentally minded gardeners, it's a <i>great</i> place to find odd little inexpensive rooted cuttings to play around with. <br />
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The thermometer stood at 100F one afternoon in June 2013 but my friend Carole and I felt like poking around a nursery so we headed to Barton Springs. I was familiar with some of the small plants I brought home -<i>Salvia discolor</i>/Andean Silver Sage; variegated Jewels of Opar, and <i>Dicliptera suberecta</i>/Uruguayan Hummingbird Plant. Here are the Jewels of Opar with portulaca last summer. <br />
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Those three plants lived for awhile, made a few flowers and died over winter. <br />
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Another little starter plant was on a table with annuals and herbs - it was some previously unheard of kind of Clerodendron and my internal Plant-Collector sensor started chiming. I needed it! Once repotted and on the part sun/part shade patio, I made sure the little <i>Clerodendrum incisa</i> was handwatered every couple of days. It survived, grew at a reasonable rate from June until October, and was totally ignorable. Then surprise! <br />
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One stem on the plant developed white buds that looked a little like musical notes - and even more like golf clubs. The plant popped a few more flowers in November. <br />
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According to the <a href="http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/67699/" target="_blank"><b>Dave's Garden information</b></a> on <i>Clerodendrum incisa</i>, it's only hardy to zone 9, so would almost certainly die if left outside in my part of Austin in winter. The pot is somewhere in this photo, one of dozens of marginal plants that spent last winter jammed into the garage. <br />
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The winter had some very harsh spells and some of the plants froze inside the garage. The <i>Clerodendrum incisum</i> lost its leaves and looked dormant but the stems were still flexible so I had hope. The pot went outside again in spring and the plant slowly woke up. Once again it grew steadily, looking plain but not unattractive. I kept it watered and a few times gave it a little diluted <a href="http://www.ladybugbrand.com/products/Johns-Recipe.asp" target="_blank"><b>John's Recipe</b></a>.<br />
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This year the first bloom cycle started with uncurling buds in late August and I found myself completely entranced. <br />
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The fully developed flowers don't last long but are bewitching.<br />
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One stem would rest for awhile then another flush of buds developed. These began in early September.<br />
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After a few days, they once again begin to resemble musical notes. <br />
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Sometimes the buds became very elongated.<br />
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Once open, the delicate flowers don't last long. <br />
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This flush has many clusters of buds so you can see the flowers in different stages. <br />
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Even the fallen flowers are decorative scattered on the ground near the pot.<br />
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After another short rest, a flush of new buds is expanding by Sept 17th. <br />
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In this photo from September 22nd, I think there are tiny ants crawling on the buds.<br />
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September 23rd - the elongated buds have arranged themselves into a chord. <br />
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September 24 - fully opened flowers in closeup. <br />
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Also September 24 - a few feet away is a tall plant of a Clerodendron relative, the Blue Butterfly plant, <i>Clerodendrum ugandense</i> AKA <i>Rotheca myricoides</i> 'Ugandense' <br />
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In a milder climate the Musical Notes Plant can grow into a small shrub, but it will be treated like a tender plant here and come inside for winter. <br />
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<i>The post, Clerodendrum Incisa - the Musical Notes Plant, was written by Annie in Austin for her Transplantable Rose blog, and is dedicated to my music-making friends. </i>Annie in Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14662139490401110432noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29414556.post-41124161330089820722014-06-18T18:13:00.000-05:002014-06-18T18:13:59.392-05:00Still Posting After All These Years <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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starting the blog on June 7, 2006, I took more photos, sometimes with a specific
post in mind… sometimes “just in case”. Beginning in February 2007, there were a
disproportionate number of photos taken around the 15th of each month due to
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number of posts on the Transplantable Rose goes up slowly now, but the number of
photos has increased. Maybe this has also happened to you? It seems our
cameras and camera phones and memory cards have become the main way to record
and remember everything. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">A random
dip into my image files pulls up thousands of mostly mediocre digital images of
family & friends, local events, images of baked goods, a snap of the plate
after trying a new recipe, beautiful flowers, ugly flowers, clouds, interesting
insects and animals, hailstorms, tomatoes from the garden, squirrels, flowering
shrubs, receipts, birds, rain falling from the veranda, rain in rain gauges,
rain running down rain chains, rain drops on flowers, flowering trees, stages
of home improvement, etc. etc. etc. </span></div>
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crummy photo can be invaluable for reminding us where and when something
happened.</span></div>
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is a silly word, but maybe a useful one. I had no time to write a post for the
June 7<sup>th</sup> date - two genealogy projects had taken over my life. But
taking a picture is fast, so there are photos taken over the past eleven days,
and they fit into the usual June categories. Beautiful flowers, tomatoes,
interesting animals, flowering shrubs, and squirrels</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">Two passalong
plants from <b><a href="http://www.penick.net/digging/" target="_blank">Pam/Digging</a></b> fill this photo – that’s ‘Peter’s Purple’ Monarda with
the daylily ‘Best of Friends’. I like both plants very much as individuals and
they’re doing well in this bed. But looking at the color clash in this photo
makes me wish I had a better spot for ‘Best of Friends’ </span></div>
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behind ‘Best of Friends’ is ‘Prairie Blue Eyes’ – perfect with the monarda, but
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;"><i>Hemerocallis
citrina,</i> the scented, citron daylily, is a pale lemon color that goes with
almost anything. But it doesn’t open until day is almost done, and the flowers
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we’ve had to fight for every tomato and are not winning the battle. Birds and
squirrels got at least 2/3 of the fruit in spite of using bird nets and picking the fruit green
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days ago this one was ours – this 14oz Black Krim tomato turned from green to
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Illinois a perennial started out small. The majority survived, bulked up over a
few years, were divided, moved around and shared. In Central Texas, perennials
are often purchased, a few survive to be divided, but around half of them begin
to decline after 3 or 4 years and then choose death over life in Austin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(If you doubt this, come over and I’ll show
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">As a
result I really, really appreciate the reseeding annuals like Bluebonnets,
Nemophila/Baby Blue Eyes, Brazos Penstemon/ Penstemon tenuis, annual Poppies,
French Hollyhocks/<i>Malva sylvestris</i> ‘Zebrina’,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><i>Verbena bonariensis</i>, <i>Salvia coccinea</i>/Hummingbird sages, Larkspur, orange
Cosmos, Datura, tropical milkweed <i>Asclepias curassavica</i>, Blue Pea vine, Cypress
vine… each in turning add spice to the garden from early spring until frost. I
like to add a few starter plants of Calibrachoa/Million Bells and Angelonia to
the mix. Here’s one of the triangle beds: </span></div>
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perennial that did survive is the Hardy hibiscus- AKA Rose Mallow - named ‘Blue
River II’ for its origin along the Blue River in Oklahoma. The flowers are
large and pure white, but only last one day. With more ground moisture the plant
is doing well this June. A photo of ‘Blue River II’ appeared in my first post –
this one bloomed yesterday and I liked how translucent it looked with the sun
coming through from the back of the flower. </span></div>
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approached he hopped onto a nearby post. I clicked the button just before he
jumped into the foliage. The photo wasn’t good or special, but zooming in on
the image showed something interesting… his tail was brown instead of green.
<a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121009092416.htm" target="_blank"><b>This article </b></a>makes it seem likely that this lizard’s original tail was damaged
and the replacement is made differently. </span></div>
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‘Julia Child’, so abundantly in bloom in April, was deadheaded and now has a
second flush of flowers. The heat didn’t hit until June and we’ve had some rain
so some larkspurs are still alive to add a blue-violet contrast to the butter
yellow. And something about this year’s weather has encouraged blooms on the
purple coneflowers - looking almost normal instead of the wimpy plants of recent years. </span></div>
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with ‘Peter’s Purple’ Monarda made me want to try another monarda with mildew
resistance that showed up at the Natural Gardener – this is ‘Jacob Cline’. So
far, so good! </span></div>
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of Sharon grew taller and had many flowers this year but every photo I took
looked bad. Yesterday morning I saw the shrub shaking violently so I grabbed
the camera and went out. My archenemy was comfortably encamped in the center of
the Rose of Sharon, picking and munching the flowers. I’ve had no luck stopping
squirrels from eating tomatoes and flowers, and he’ll never have to answer for
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Three weeks can make a big difference in the garden! Since that last post the garden plant spreadsheet shows fewer plants with question marks next to their names. <br />
The Barbados Cherries appear to be alive. They also appear to be about 6" tall now. But you don't want to see that photo and I don't want to take it. Averted eyes is the way to carry on while the boxwoods decide exactly where they'll regrow - don't want to take that photo either. <br />
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This photo of the ice-and-freeze damaged Oleander was taken at the beginning of April. It grows near the steps from the house to the drive so it was very hard to not only avert my eyes but to refrain from picking up the lopping shears.<br />
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Sometimes the best thing to do is nothing. Early last week tiny green leaves began to sprout along the oleander trunk and by Thursday it was clear which branches were doing well and where to make the cuts. I don't think there will be flowers this spring, but the Oleander should live and grow. <br />
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So let's ignore the battered shrubs and let them recover in private. As to the rest of the garden? Even though we're still in drought, something about the long cold rest seems to have benefited the roses - they're shouting that it is now Absolutely April.<br />
'Julia Child' opens new flowers every morning, standing nearly 5-ft tall, with scores of buds still swelling, surrounded by self-sown poppies and larkspurs, by Four-nerve daisies and the last bluebonnets.<br />
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I've read that this rose was chosen by Julia Child herself to bear her name, because it looked like butter. <br />
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I still don't have a positive ID on the pink climber that came with the house, but 'Climbing Pink Peace' seems to be a possibility. My husband Philo built a wooden trellis over the gate and the rose has stretched out and up to cover it.<br />
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A few big blossoms joined white 'Climbing Iceberg' in a bowl. <br />
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This apricot mini-rose finally looks established - last spring it had two flowers. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBoyL2PsTmbh7CpZvDCeUL_CVOox6rPqK4cSBb7kKwg1B9XjqrD12K0mykWwl5LFD05kCqx3ndHaMac1lVSFf_chCdVcLxxT8cNmPpF1TwEMgIjz2coQfs_Ksfqlu9tVrpzd0NKw/s1600/7AAnnieinaustin+2014,04,apricot+rose.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBoyL2PsTmbh7CpZvDCeUL_CVOox6rPqK4cSBb7kKwg1B9XjqrD12K0mykWwl5LFD05kCqx3ndHaMac1lVSFf_chCdVcLxxT8cNmPpF1TwEMgIjz2coQfs_Ksfqlu9tVrpzd0NKw/s1600/7AAnnieinaustin+2014,04,apricot+rose.jpg" height="343" width="400" /></a><br />
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The frozen Rosa mutabilis quickly outgrew the damage and is reblooming in its patio container. <br />
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The Oakleaf Hydrangea flaunts something between a bud and a flower.<br />
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Up in front most of the native plants in the parkway strip are waking up and thinking about buds, but only the Damianita is in full bloom. <br />
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The Texas Mountain Laurel flowers froze in March 2014, but the shrubs are already making buds for Spring 2015.<br />
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Fingers crossed these new plants of Damianita, purple skullcap, creeping phlox and Blackfoot daisies can take hold in a new bed up front. <br />
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Tomorrow's forecast promises temperatures in the nineties so the individual flowers don't last too long, but April has been absolutely lovely for a while. <br />
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">This post about my garden in Austin, Texas was written by Annie in Austin for her Transplantable Rose blog. </span></i><br />
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<br />Annie in Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14662139490401110432noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29414556.post-21858386152961508152014-04-02T01:00:00.000-05:002014-04-02T01:00:20.557-05:00In like a Lion and Out like a Shorn Lamb<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">This post about my garden in Austin, Texas was written by Annie in Austin for her Transplantable Rose blog. </span></i><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">D</span></span></b>id my February post listing <a href="http://annieinaustin.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-trees-that-grow-in-my-garden.html" target="_blank"><b>all the trees in the garden </b></a>put a hex on them? This part of the privacy screen looked pretty good six weeks ago. <br />
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By the first of March tiny leaves and buds had appeared on Spiraea, Redbud, roses, Arizona Ash, Fig and dwarf Pomegranate, and flower buds swelled on the native Texas Mountain Laurel <br />
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But then came the March 3rd-4th Thundersleet that bent the Loropetalum to the ground<br />
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While the iced Oleander leaned over to block the steps to the driveway<br />
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<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span></span></b>he trees and shrubs soon bounced back from the ice, but unlike plants in a northern place where dormant plants sleep, insulated by snow from cold air, our plants were wide awake and full of sap, making leaves and setting buds. When the temperature dropped to 19°F on March 6th even the native plants were shocked at the cold. <br /><br /><span style="color: #660000;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span></b></span>he results have slowly revealed themselves over the last few weeks. <br />All the leaves dropped off the Arizona ash and the pomegranates, every leaf and bud froze on the redbud trees and on the fig tree, leaves fell from the 'Climbing Iceberg' and the Meyer's Lemon, the flowers froze on the Texas Mountain Laurel, and leaves on all four Confederate Jasmines began to turn brown. Friends who grow agaves and aloes say they're badly damaged. <br /><br /><span style="color: #274e13;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">P</span></b></span>lants that were dormant are mostly OK. Evergreen plants like <i>Salvia greggii</i>, Skullcaps and Salvia 'Hot Lips' froze way back but most are alive at the base. Semi-evergreens like Mexican honeysuckle, Philippine Violet and Turkscap died to the ground. Plants like iris and daffodils didn't die, but most buds froze. <br />
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The Lady Banks rose lost all its leaves and buds<br />
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The ends of every boxwood twig and branch began to die back, with stems turning light tan instead of green - something I've never seen in 15-years of growing them in Central Texas. The Barbados Cherries were already iffy - now they look dead. <br />
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Last spring I took many photos of the garden in bloom, but never got around to making a post at the end of March 2013 to celebrate the end of that unusually mild winter. The garden in those photos seems like fiction this year. <br />
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On March 30th, 201<span style="color: #990000;"><b>3</b></span>, the Lady Banks was in full bloom. <br />
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On March 29th, 201<span style="color: #990000;"><b>3</b></span> the Mutabilis rose looked like a dream of spring<br />
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On March 29th, 201<span style="color: #990000;"><b>3</b></span> several Bluebonnets popped up with yellow Four-Nerve daisies, the tall fragrant Peach Iris, and white <i>Salvia coccinea</i> AKA Hummingbird Sage. <br />
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On March 30th, 201<span style="color: #990000;"><b>3</b></span> the white rose 'Climbing Iceberg' filled the left side of the sweetheart arch with blooms while the white-flowering Confederate/Star Jasmine filled the right side. <br />
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On March 30th, 201<span style="color: #990000;"><b>3</b></span> another Confederate Jasmine grew 8-feet high on the shed trellis with Spanish Bluebells at the base.<br />
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We were busy nursery-hopping and planting tomatoes at the end of March in 2013 - no guests arrived to see the garden clothed in blooms but we appreciated them every day. <br />
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Any longtime gardener can take the bad years along with the good years - of course, we can! And I know that much of the cold damage to this year's garden will grow out and repair itself and make flowers again some other day or some other year. <br />But the thing that made me want to scream was that <i>this </i>year there <i>were</i> garden visitors - real, talk-Latin-to-me, gardener-type garden visitors. <br />
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Flash forward to the end of March 20<span style="color: #990000;"><i><b>14</b></i></span>... and what do this year's guests get to see? <br />
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How about a frozen and browned <i>Loropetalum chinense</i> var <i>rubrum</i> 'Plum Delight', no longer a screen but a see-through shrub?<br />
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Or the pitiful remains of the Jasmine on the shed trellis with one stem of Hyacinthoides? <br />
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At least the <i>Rosa 'Mutabilis'</i> had begun to releaf, even though it had no flowers<br />
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The Lady Banks rose also has made leaves, and may yet bring forth a few golden blossoms<br />
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What a trouper! After losing the main crop of buds and leaves, the Texas Redbud produced a second batch of buds for a light but lovely show of blooms. <br />
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The Confederate Jasmine is now 8-inches high instead of 8-ft tall, but the white 'Climbing Iceberg' has releafed and is forming buds. The <i>Magnolia figo</i>/ Banana Shrub is almost bare of leaves but tiny new leaf buds show green. <br />
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Only two-thirds of the knee-high Mexican Buckeye is alive, but the little tree was in bloom to greet the guests.<br />
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The buds froze on the white iris and the peach iris, and most of the dozens of <i>Salvia coccinea</i> AKA Hummingbird Sage plants died, but the Four-Nerve daisies are a cheerful lot, and some bluebonnets are in bloom, saying This is Texas. It's not a dream of a garden, but still a real one. Let the pruning-back begin! <br />
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">This post about my garden in Austin, Texas was written by Annie in Austin for her Transplantable Rose blog. </span></i>Annie in Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14662139490401110432noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29414556.post-14873668445754059722014-02-13T19:06:00.002-06:002014-02-13T19:06:52.266-06:00The Trees that Grow in my Garden <span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">A</span></span> few days ago fellow Central Texas garden blogger Laura at <a href="http://willsfamilyacres.com/2014/02/02/tree-inventory/" target="_blank"><b>Wills Family Acres</b></a> wrote about the trees growing on her 2-acre property. It was fascinating to see the large numbers of live oaks and cedars on her plot, and also fun to see how many trees she and her family had planted. <br /><br />I really liked the idea, and decided to copy Laura and make my own Tree Inventory post. After subtracting the area covered by driveway, hardscape & house from my quarter acre lot the remaining plantable area is pretty small... how hard could it be to count the trees on 1/8 of an acre? <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3PdAFfFtbDg1R9ibom-b1k1B1HUq_a-a2B7_5xxubph_JhTHsyoMwcx8rQCktvEHcKaQhfMPzTjkmaIt5pzy5FcRchYWhasKRZmGkdnwPetKT66rWAxwlSHgCBazibatrWCeUUQ/s1600/01AnnieinAustin,+2014,02+Arizona+Ash+poster.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3PdAFfFtbDg1R9ibom-b1k1B1HUq_a-a2B7_5xxubph_JhTHsyoMwcx8rQCktvEHcKaQhfMPzTjkmaIt5pzy5FcRchYWhasKRZmGkdnwPetKT66rWAxwlSHgCBazibatrWCeUUQ/s1600/01AnnieinAustin,+2014,02+Arizona+Ash+poster.jpg" height="297" width="400" /></a><br />"This should be a cinch," I thought. "All I have to do is take the tree names from my plant spreadsheet."<br /><br />But it wasn't that that simple. The first problem was deciding what counted as a tree. Are hollies trees or shrubs? Are boxwoods shrubs? Where are the lines? <br />What about small baby trees in growing-on containers? Do I count trees that are brought into the garage or house in cold weather? <br /><br />The second problem was that my spreadsheet was not complete. I'd made a note of every tiny plant brought home from Barton Springs Nursery and the Natural Gardener, but had never entered some of the large boring plants already growing here in 2004 when we bought this house. (I'm talking about you, Photinia.)<br /><br /><i>Categories</i> seemed to be the answer. <br /><br />For this list, a baby tree in a container is still a tree and trees kept permanently in containers are still trees, but they'll have their own category. I considered calling this Texas Palmetto a tree, but with a future height of only 5 to 6-ft, decided to leave it off the list. <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl28W84jhKZ1IbY-zJDkKDW4mGt9C_6zJo6Ooow3dso4qXmXRaMKVu5p4jqixk_oSu_JjXo_PJXVSv-pqNgMEgkEoOn7wzYmxeKlnMiG5wFbWGC5y9eTif3NZILuVgtWdTAaUkkA/s1600/02Annieinaustin,+2014,02+Dwarf+Texas+palmetto.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl28W84jhKZ1IbY-zJDkKDW4mGt9C_6zJo6Ooow3dso4qXmXRaMKVu5p4jqixk_oSu_JjXo_PJXVSv-pqNgMEgkEoOn7wzYmxeKlnMiG5wFbWGC5y9eTif3NZILuVgtWdTAaUkkA/s1600/02Annieinaustin,+2014,02+Dwarf+Texas+palmetto.jpg" height="276" width="400" /></a><br /><br />A plant that wants to be a tree but can be kept to shrub height by constant pruning counts as a tree on the list. Neglect to prune a Ligustrum hedge or a Red Tip Photinia hedge and you'll end up with a forest of Ligustrum and Photinia trees. <br /><br />If a treelike plant has the <i>potential</i> to be 7 or 8 feet tall it counts as a tree. For example, my Barbados Cherries have been pretty wimpy, but I've seen them look like small trees in the gardens of friends. <br /><br />The trees and treelike shrubs that were already growing here when we moved in will have a separate category. <br /><br /><br /><b>GROUP 1</b> -Trees that were here when we moved in that are still alive : <br /><br />Arizona ash (1 very large)<br /><br />Pecan, unknown variety (2 very large) <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvh8HPvouhL5i3PXuTONbTomO0nrWj9bHxjK9ojCRlR3u5GlKhvEgASaA-14fGKmVxkSnKPHrIG6w81o3Ov5ZabK6rVFi0pLNZ3pUQb4RBazNZaW1C2v1msInUBtaa5G8EWEVMpw/s1600/03Annieinaustin,+2014,02+Pecan+1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvh8HPvouhL5i3PXuTONbTomO0nrWj9bHxjK9ojCRlR3u5GlKhvEgASaA-14fGKmVxkSnKPHrIG6w81o3Ov5ZabK6rVFi0pLNZ3pUQb4RBazNZaW1C2v1msInUBtaa5G8EWEVMpw/s1600/03Annieinaustin,+2014,02+Pecan+1.jpg" height="300" width="400" /></a><br /><br />Live Oaks (2 medium large)<br /><br />Yaupon holly (1 lovely, muli-trunked tree, about 15-ft tall)<br /><br />Crepe myrtle, the common hot pink ( 6 in sizes from 7-ft to 20-ft)<br /><br />Holly - some kind of Chinese holly (1 allowed to be a 12-ft tree, 1 pruned repeatedly to 5-ft)<br /><br />Nandina (3 kept at 6-ft)<br /><br />Red tip Photinia (3 kept under 10-ft)<br /><br /><br /><br /><b>GROUP 2 </b>- Trees that were planted by us:<br /><br />Loquat tree (3 trees, one large, one medium, one about 4-ft tall, all from seedlings) <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwuzAaPaNjukC2SpuAqFzmf6iA8OT-NScP4Pq14OG-b_LnpvgMwkLynd2OPLo-QF5tlUqT1DEir_tUbJxTqonIH4Xm2KAg5HbbIjDzC-2atadGkNO7zV3sDrmXt_eqJElys4p_3A/s1600/04AnnieinAustin,+2014,02+Loquat,+Bay+laurel,+So+Wax+Myrtle.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwuzAaPaNjukC2SpuAqFzmf6iA8OT-NScP4Pq14OG-b_LnpvgMwkLynd2OPLo-QF5tlUqT1DEir_tUbJxTqonIH4Xm2KAg5HbbIjDzC-2atadGkNO7zV3sDrmXt_eqJElys4p_3A/s1600/04AnnieinAustin,+2014,02+Loquat,+Bay+laurel,+So+Wax+Myrtle.jpg" height="400" width="311" /></a><br /><i>The largest loquat is in the photo above, with Bay Laurel in container left, larger Southern Wax Myrtle in ground right</i><br /><br />Magnolia 'Little Gem' (1 about 12-ft tall)<br /><br />Sweet Olive (3. The oldest is very established and kept to 12-ft tall. Two younger plants are under 5-ft.)<br /><br />Texas redbud (1, about 10-ft tall)<br /><br />'Forest Pansy' redbud (1, about 10-ft tall)<br /><br />Vitex /Chaste tree (1, kept to 10-ft tall, from a seedling)<br /><br />Magnolia figo/ Banana shrub (1 about 8-ft tall) <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3-yta0Keyy_DAMlpk6M5OoveCHEhJuIRk6emY6NipUoG94BI9YpUphc05DXLARX7423xBXnDFpl1E592q6FPBK1nUdi6ZHXefmXHLTm8d3OTW_-g4fIPCOtcX11hTB-CIXFMjAw/s1600/05Annieinaustin,+2014,02++Back+border.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3-yta0Keyy_DAMlpk6M5OoveCHEhJuIRk6emY6NipUoG94BI9YpUphc05DXLARX7423xBXnDFpl1E592q6FPBK1nUdi6ZHXefmXHLTm8d3OTW_-g4fIPCOtcX11hTB-CIXFMjAw/s1600/05Annieinaustin,+2014,02++Back+border.jpg" height="300" width="400" /></a><br /><i>In the photo above, the Banana shrub is at left next to the bench, center is a young Texas Mountain Laurel, then a camellia, then the tall, burgundy-leaved Loropetalum/Chinese Witch Hazel </i><br /><br /><br />Cenizo/Texas sage (1, kept to 8-ft, grown from a seedling)<br /><br />Beautyberry AKA French mulberry (1, kept to about 7-ft tall)<br /><br />Evergreen sumac (1, barely 5-ft tall after 7 years in the ground)<br /><br />Barbados cherry trees (usually frozen back, one tree about 6-ft, another about 4-ft)<br /><br />Crepe Myrtle 'Acoma' blooms white (2 trees, called semi-dwarf, kept to abt 12-ft in height)<br /><br />Crepe Myrtle 'Catawba' blooms purple (2 young trees, under 5-ft.) <br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0JYo5QkWm3bqOleuCUWTpuoLFLnFce9_LKfIC4PxfgoABaoHQClG3Rh6vPC_fwI2rKe1lU2J2h87QHyayCjyL8aluXSFvlvtf9x98znJ5b8uyk7PePbu4hayyB4oDEWVNDvdvFg/s1600/06Annieinaustin+2014,02+Young+Catawba+Crepe.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0JYo5QkWm3bqOleuCUWTpuoLFLnFce9_LKfIC4PxfgoABaoHQClG3Rh6vPC_fwI2rKe1lU2J2h87QHyayCjyL8aluXSFvlvtf9x98znJ5b8uyk7PePbu4hayyB4oDEWVNDvdvFg/s1600/06Annieinaustin+2014,02+Young+Catawba+Crepe.jpg" height="306" width="400" /></a><br /><br />Crepe Myrtle labeled 'Muskogee', supposed to bloom lavender (1 young tree, abt 6-ft tall) <br /><br />Crepe Myrtle 'Zuni' blooms orchid pink (1 young tree, under 9-ft) <br /><br />Meyer's Improved Lemon (1 tree, when not winter-killed, pruned to about 9-ft tall <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8b2D3bYr9xIrN0-TlTGTtf13xld_ihuXFbhJgJMQ-MeztROxO19MgnjU2lnSQSwbit4hyG-7DVfYVN1NyhB0vai6mefatavxdiRmyVW87ik91uuD1VibX-0CKD6lpE_5Ohja9FA/s1600/07AnnieinAustin,+2014,02+Satsuma,+Meyer+Lemon,+climbing+rose.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8b2D3bYr9xIrN0-TlTGTtf13xld_ihuXFbhJgJMQ-MeztROxO19MgnjU2lnSQSwbit4hyG-7DVfYVN1NyhB0vai6mefatavxdiRmyVW87ik91uuD1VibX-0CKD6lpE_5Ohja9FA/s1600/07AnnieinAustin,+2014,02+Satsuma,+Meyer+Lemon,+climbing+rose.jpg" height="300" width="400" /></a><br /><br />Loropetalum/Chinese Witch hazel (2 - the one in photo with Magnolia Figo is about 9-ft tall, the other is a young plant about 2-ft tall.) <br /><br />Pineapple guava (1 about 6-ft tall) <br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2P7OGX-ZjPVezHbwGpmMXKhvDIVgW420d1AAqSScAxXWvYa-jQhUhNSK0ByC3POzqsbE86EvzJIMQv9x_lmyRdP20GoOStTuZObf9TYYlBYYRuMLM7nCy2Pr0nZo4fDUZpuWsHg/s1600/08Annieinaustin,+2014,02,13+Pineapple+guava+w+Liveoak+bkgrnd.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2P7OGX-ZjPVezHbwGpmMXKhvDIVgW420d1AAqSScAxXWvYa-jQhUhNSK0ByC3POzqsbE86EvzJIMQv9x_lmyRdP20GoOStTuZObf9TYYlBYYRuMLM7nCy2Pr0nZo4fDUZpuWsHg/s1600/08Annieinaustin,+2014,02,13+Pineapple+guava+w+Liveoak+bkgrnd.jpg" height="300" width="400" /></a><br /><i>The Pineapple Guava has reached the top of the privacy fence - in the background is one of the Live Oak trees. </i><br /><br /><br />Rose 'Mutabilis' (1 in ground, kept to 8-ft by diligent pruning)<br /><br />Texas Mountain Laurel (4 plants. Two about 6-ft, one about 5-ft, one about 2-ft) <br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-JFR8zFDD5SurspLgl6I2-l8xf7w2bDF50TnMw44uUHJNJkntQU2XQXEkNdtwcaaEWdWWK8mPePchf1ybxSQaDKkSUgbj52sWCXMevGL_IFN_gGzqBT4muMEu-2ZNK5nPWfHXeA/s1600/09Annieinaustin+2014,02+5ft+TX+Mt+laurel.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-JFR8zFDD5SurspLgl6I2-l8xf7w2bDF50TnMw44uUHJNJkntQU2XQXEkNdtwcaaEWdWWK8mPePchf1ybxSQaDKkSUgbj52sWCXMevGL_IFN_gGzqBT4muMEu-2ZNK5nPWfHXeA/s1600/09Annieinaustin+2014,02+5ft+TX+Mt+laurel.jpg" height="382" width="400" /></a><br /><i>This is the only one of my 4 Texas Mountain Laurels that has ever bloomed. </i><br /><br />Satsuma orange 'Miho' (1 young tree abt 3-ft tall)<br /><br />Southern Wax Myrtle (1, about 5-6 ft)<br /><br />Mexican Buckeye (1 baby tree in the ground, maybe 2 and 1/2 ft tall)<br /><br /><br /><br /><b>GROUP 3</b>- Trees planted by us, presently growing in containers: <br /><br />Oleander (1, very large container, kept to 10-ft in height.)<br /><br />Rose 'Mutabilis' (1 about 6-ft tall)<br /><br />Bay Laurel (1 about 5-ft tall)<br /><br />Southern Wax Myrtle (1 abt 4-ft tall) <br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji9ZcqRDpZlmHSQCBnT5mJKrMYNZqMDseV2Qh3R0eoHh_BIWVKu5vJeQq-EStDW2T-IZsBDYcU1GXSnW52uspohmavqpfMQbA7O7kItryy6jRn8gE8sqsa2X3rV6bBXkzUb6H0Cg/s1600/10Annieinaustin+2014,02+Southern+Wax+Myrtle+in+pot.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji9ZcqRDpZlmHSQCBnT5mJKrMYNZqMDseV2Qh3R0eoHh_BIWVKu5vJeQq-EStDW2T-IZsBDYcU1GXSnW52uspohmavqpfMQbA7O7kItryy6jRn8gE8sqsa2X3rV6bBXkzUb6H0Cg/s1600/10Annieinaustin+2014,02+Southern+Wax+Myrtle+in+pot.jpg" height="275" width="400" /></a><br /><br /><br />Dwarf Pomegranate (2 plants, one under 2-ft, one about 7-ft tall) <br /><br />Pineapple guava (1 about 5-ft tall)<br /><br />Montezuma cypress (1 baby tree)<br /><br />Thai lime trees (2 small trees, both under 3-ft, one in garage, one outside)<br /><br />Willow, corkscrew (1 under 5-ft kept in container, grown from a cutting)<br /><br />Meyer's Improved Lemon, (1 small tree bought in March 2006 - blooming in the breakfast room right now)<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ_Za9i8uhl0DD3CvWD3lQM6OJcAc253VVe9otzTuVY002BwQGEinBSQ3vg6KWdJzhqhtZhA0qF9xiROAC_BeopgExntGbegwdWglc4feVVVOsorC7IS8Q74QaghOyIakSEz70pA/s1600/11AnnieinAustin,+2014,02+Lemon+blossoms.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ_Za9i8uhl0DD3CvWD3lQM6OJcAc253VVe9otzTuVY002BwQGEinBSQ3vg6KWdJzhqhtZhA0qF9xiROAC_BeopgExntGbegwdWglc4feVVVOsorC7IS8Q74QaghOyIakSEz70pA/s1600/11AnnieinAustin,+2014,02+Lemon+blossoms.jpg" height="302" width="400" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />Whether or not this list is interesting to you readers, it sure is useful for me as a garden record... Thanks for the idea, Laura! <br /><br /><br />Annie in Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14662139490401110432noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29414556.post-33749890574939958182013-08-08T18:28:00.000-05:002013-08-08T18:28:41.429-05:00When A Ginger Is Just A "Ginger"<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT5rQDZexH9hyphenhyphenVA5XC47yqYeJOB-xlt1KRQ_Ji7q26XnhF9nnRknCk9Ta8wlAtCjL55drxAtSUn2kYtU0hN2us3ikGRELB2Nm9AvGvGhkrJacUWAbqTx6t484upd0XukMGKxFgWw/s1600/01+Annieinaustin,+first+White+Ginger+flowers+2004.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT5rQDZexH9hyphenhyphenVA5XC47yqYeJOB-xlt1KRQ_Ji7q26XnhF9nnRknCk9Ta8wlAtCjL55drxAtSUn2kYtU0hN2us3ikGRELB2Nm9AvGvGhkrJacUWAbqTx6t484upd0XukMGKxFgWw/s1600/01+Annieinaustin,+first+White+Ginger+flowers+2004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">This post was written by <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/14662139490401110432" target="_blank">Annie in Austin </a>for her Transplantable Rose blog. </span></i></span></span><br /><br />
<br />What do you think of when you hear "Ginger plant"? The first one that comes to my mind is <a href="http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/gardens-gardening/your-garden/plant-finder/plant-details/kc/a521/hedychium-coronarium.aspx" target="_blank"><b><i>Hedychium coronarium</i></b></a>, the fragrant white-flowering ginger, also called Hawaiian White Ginger or <br />Butterfly Ginger. I brought a tiny root back from the airport gift shop in Hawaii more than a decade ago and have it growing in a few places in my garden. I can still remember how thrilling it was when my plant first bloomed in 2004. <br /><br /><br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT5rQDZexH9hyphenhyphenVA5XC47yqYeJOB-xlt1KRQ_Ji7q26XnhF9nnRknCk9Ta8wlAtCjL55drxAtSUn2kYtU0hN2us3ikGRELB2Nm9AvGvGhkrJacUWAbqTx6t484upd0XukMGKxFgWw/s1600/01+Annieinaustin,+first+White+Ginger+flowers+2004.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT5rQDZexH9hyphenhyphenVA5XC47yqYeJOB-xlt1KRQ_Ji7q26XnhF9nnRknCk9Ta8wlAtCjL55drxAtSUn2kYtU0hN2us3ikGRELB2Nm9AvGvGhkrJacUWAbqTx6t484upd0XukMGKxFgWw/s400/01+Annieinaustin,+first+White+Ginger+flowers+2004.jpg" width="387" /></a><br />
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You can find fancier, named varieties of Hedychium with larger flowers in many colors but I still love the white one... reminds me of the loved and long-discontinued Avon sticks in Hawaiian White Ginger scent. <br />Each summer I hope for the return of the fragrant blooms - in some years they are few but this year buds have formed on one plant. <br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEooWteMcCnJq7QDd-yuFr2smN1od-9xORB7QNEmpYTt8BUcAm-QZyHCcjllbRepkq1l4vrbzgB7h8oPXih3yEmRnsfVTCM5v08YYg-4Xh7S2i36f6FDdSL7ZSmCCB94gKBVQmBg/s1600/02+AnnieinAustin+Hedychium+coronaria+buds+opening.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEooWteMcCnJq7QDd-yuFr2smN1od-9xORB7QNEmpYTt8BUcAm-QZyHCcjllbRepkq1l4vrbzgB7h8oPXih3yEmRnsfVTCM5v08YYg-4Xh7S2i36f6FDdSL7ZSmCCB94gKBVQmBg/s400/02+AnnieinAustin+Hedychium+coronaria+buds+opening.jpg" width="318" /></a><br /><br />Maybe Ginger to you means true, edible ginger, <a href="http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/55488/" target="_blank"><i><b>Zingiber officinale</b></i></a>? I once started a plant from one of the fresh ginger roots from the produce section but it was very tender and didn't survive. The leaves look similar to my white ginger but it's grown for the root, not the flowers. <br /><br />Perhaps, like many people in Austin, you think of the large-leaved variegated ginger grown in containers and in the ground. A few years ago I picked up a pot from the bargain table at a big box nursery for a couple of dollars. I'm pretty good about keeping lists of plant purchases, but I didn't even bother to write this one down, sure it was just a tender, one-season foliage plant. <br /><br />Over the first winter the foliage died back badly but the leaves struggled back up to form a sadly diminished foliage plant that summer. <br /><br />Its fortitude earned the ginger a place in the garage for Winter 2009-2010, safe from freezes but subject to dust and sawdust. <br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz2VsQ6kag8W4I5K4hvy0eGLnfXWPDkbOJphD-_vr_Gf1EtzKRwXVlhtsp0L52cLnCd4uCYXBlRBRMNCYnOIWJAX8SM70z8Vw2djw52CHVTQea1-aeDyC5-H6twJkJ51TLSGWSug/s1600/03+Annieinaustin+So-called+Ginger+in++garage.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz2VsQ6kag8W4I5K4hvy0eGLnfXWPDkbOJphD-_vr_Gf1EtzKRwXVlhtsp0L52cLnCd4uCYXBlRBRMNCYnOIWJAX8SM70z8Vw2djw52CHVTQea1-aeDyC5-H6twJkJ51TLSGWSug/s400/03+Annieinaustin+So-called+Ginger+in++garage.jpg" width="400" /></a><br /><br /><br />With the return of warm weather the pot was dragged back onto the front porch. <br /><br />Then in 2010 my friend Ellen bought a couple of Variegated gingers from the reduced-for-quick sale section at a big HEB store - she brought one to me and I put it in another pot, to have one on each side of the front door. <br /><br />Both pots of variegated ginger grew and were dragged back in the garage for winter 2011-12. <br /><br />
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<br />Last spring they came out front to grow some more. But they didn't grow in quite the same way - one had clusters of leaves on stalks and one sent more pointed leaves sprawling in every direction. <br />Finally I got the message - these plants were not the same plant. <br />
<br />Ellen's gift was definitely a variegated Shell Ginger, best guess was <a href="http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/55244/" target="_blank"><i><b>Alpinia zerumbet 'Variegata'</b></i></a>. <br />
<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinOJpSOYrVkLcpmDCRExTzoFn3kupjKVXwkLQdN1cNE0v43vHHJsHexlHxKdE_ut5WTTu2kNBIavQb0fWs5K4G1xZdGwZgW4R7Hzx0ec5iwK2PPi5lWobLfCHMngLD-_4olXOMyw/s1600/05+Annieinaustin+Shell+ginger+on+grass.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="325" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinOJpSOYrVkLcpmDCRExTzoFn3kupjKVXwkLQdN1cNE0v43vHHJsHexlHxKdE_ut5WTTu2kNBIavQb0fWs5K4G1xZdGwZgW4R7Hzx0ec5iwK2PPi5lWobLfCHMngLD-_4olXOMyw/s400/05+Annieinaustin+Shell+ginger+on+grass.jpg" width="400" /></a><br /><br />But my bargain baby was something else. <br />It seemed to be some variety of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ctenanthe" target="_blank"><b><i>Ctenanthe lubbersiana</i></b></a> - maybe just variegata or maybe one of the named varieties. Some sites called it Bamburanta and others Prayer Plant. Some people on GardenWeb called it California Ginger - this seems to be a name used by home centers when they sell Ctenanthe as tropical plants. <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi52NPKOFlUUXyCp4l37WUe-QlRLkofrbLDBGn2t9AL_7kjU6sXVC17is0REmuaG1aV-23e26dOn2W2ictZkQ6gpUoLlfOL8yisAM2p2CTJNuA4BEmqa5AWSSEnGrOorqXoqdhpQg/s1600/06+Annieinaustin+ginger+plant+needs+repotting.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi52NPKOFlUUXyCp4l37WUe-QlRLkofrbLDBGn2t9AL_7kjU6sXVC17is0REmuaG1aV-23e26dOn2W2ictZkQ6gpUoLlfOL8yisAM2p2CTJNuA4BEmqa5AWSSEnGrOorqXoqdhpQg/s400/06+Annieinaustin+ginger+plant+needs+repotting.jpg" width="400" /></a><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNhBAQ4ntwzRuGVXkftCBhQWVPMi0sSgrtJQx8JbBFPB8JIwv7QKkhmJ0C1A7Kz9BFfDAQdSAKUGuWesxjIUbi5LyRjsa5Mnq0bBb6KKEpNufD5uqdyR4xbpsh1vA9LuP-vJ4udg/s1600/10+AnnieinAustin+California+Ginger+plant+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><br />By late fall 2012 both plants needed repotting.<br />After a redo, the Shell Ginger was in a larger decorated pot set in a corner of the porch.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0KqTroDkpzT1wIP0-BJzIU1Z_ZE446FUFH5hiCfkrIktIM5IqWS8atuzL1ZRT_56HSge5TeoIyBavgfgsWK3-sqxxmxl8_JIk4IENXfGjh-JqNJSDaOm574Fa8NEJmxPynaS9sg/s1600/07+AnnieinAustin+Alpinia+zerumbet+%27Variegata%27+repotted.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0KqTroDkpzT1wIP0-BJzIU1Z_ZE446FUFH5hiCfkrIktIM5IqWS8atuzL1ZRT_56HSge5TeoIyBavgfgsWK3-sqxxmxl8_JIk4IENXfGjh-JqNJSDaOm574Fa8NEJmxPynaS9sg/s400/07+AnnieinAustin+Alpinia+zerumbet+%27Variegata%27+repotted.jpg" width="400" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi52NPKOFlUUXyCp4l37WUe-QlRLkofrbLDBGn2t9AL_7kjU6sXVC17is0REmuaG1aV-23e26dOn2W2ictZkQ6gpUoLlfOL8yisAM2p2CTJNuA4BEmqa5AWSSEnGrOorqXoqdhpQg/s1600/06+Annieinaustin+ginger+plant+needs+repotting.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><br /><br />I split the Not-Shell Ginger into two rather gawky plants, one for each side of the door. <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXR88LTrJH3viDawPOJvjCEVzEpW1lKT_rT1IEl6Gvh49diTTO06PbXVp0K4gJ1ZxlK8OlLbAW55pCH5SWwu4QUkI8DzkCHOT3RdsmH6urfi5L97sDSN1HLp1koSFV0uo6Jho_mw/s1600/08+Annieinaustin,+Ctenanthe+lubbersiana+Left.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="305" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXR88LTrJH3viDawPOJvjCEVzEpW1lKT_rT1IEl6Gvh49diTTO06PbXVp0K4gJ1ZxlK8OlLbAW55pCH5SWwu4QUkI8DzkCHOT3RdsmH6urfi5L97sDSN1HLp1koSFV0uo6Jho_mw/s400/08+Annieinaustin,+Ctenanthe+lubbersiana+Left.jpg" width="400" /></a><br />When I cut off some stalks with browned leaves, I noticed the way the leaves were attached in small fans at the top of the stalks. I pulled off a few fans and poked them into another pot on the patio, and stuck a few more fans in smaller pots. <br /><br />My instincts were right - the fans rooted and soon I had a third plant growing with a Blue Butterfly Clerodendron, something that also needed to be in the garage for winter. <br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM8YMmyi5sJRFqThuiuDYB02Umsq0Rd82x5Oje3dHRWKK75eoNMi6kycB_KRltqh-1y9XDKqzth3r0SHx6AWN9XkoYO2he595mOw-j_QCupRSy0p151SS8Pqd-oc3b4LI33I2oAQ/s1600/09+AnnieinAustin,+Rooted++cuttings+Ctenanthe+lubbersiana.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM8YMmyi5sJRFqThuiuDYB02Umsq0Rd82x5Oje3dHRWKK75eoNMi6kycB_KRltqh-1y9XDKqzth3r0SHx6AWN9XkoYO2he595mOw-j_QCupRSy0p151SS8Pqd-oc3b4LI33I2oAQ/s400/09+AnnieinAustin,+Rooted++cuttings+Ctenanthe+lubbersiana.jpg" width="400" /></a><br /><br /><br />This summer the front pots of Ctenanthe/California Ginger look pretty good, under the overhang of the veranda, in partial shade from a large tree.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNhBAQ4ntwzRuGVXkftCBhQWVPMi0sSgrtJQx8JbBFPB8JIwv7QKkhmJ0C1A7Kz9BFfDAQdSAKUGuWesxjIUbi5LyRjsa5Mnq0bBb6KKEpNufD5uqdyR4xbpsh1vA9LuP-vJ4udg/s1600/10+AnnieinAustin+California+Ginger+plant+1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNhBAQ4ntwzRuGVXkftCBhQWVPMi0sSgrtJQx8JbBFPB8JIwv7QKkhmJ0C1A7Kz9BFfDAQdSAKUGuWesxjIUbi5LyRjsa5Mnq0bBb6KKEpNufD5uqdyR4xbpsh1vA9LuP-vJ4udg/s400/10+AnnieinAustin+California+Ginger+plant+1.jpg" width="400" /></a><br /><br />They need water a few times each week in warm weather, but not every day. <br /><br />
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<br /><br />And after a recent grooming session I have more pieces stuck in pots in hope they'll root. <br /><br />
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The porch was too small for the Shell Ginger - in back it can get a mix of sun and shade and spread out. <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk9nLmrxxN3N2jOjB6U_6hzMLyRUjgZtYv9hDkwM8yohw0vBV8ySz3YowPd9PxUto5Wt6T69wc-zbs91Q0QqevFQRwUBaNpozsCrrc6X7OQ20W4l2xmjJFI0cEUJZBZvaEbBDVCQ/s1600/13+AnnieinAustin+my+Variegated+Shell+Ginger.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk9nLmrxxN3N2jOjB6U_6hzMLyRUjgZtYv9hDkwM8yohw0vBV8ySz3YowPd9PxUto5Wt6T69wc-zbs91Q0QqevFQRwUBaNpozsCrrc6X7OQ20W4l2xmjJFI0cEUJZBZvaEbBDVCQ/s400/13+AnnieinAustin+my+Variegated+Shell+Ginger.jpg" width="400" /></a><br /><br /><br />As a foliage plant it is just fine, but now I have higher ambitions for my Shell Ginger! In June some friends and I went on the <a href="http://nxnagardentour.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><b>NXNA garden walk</b></a> and saw this enormous plant in bloom against a brick wall. Wow!<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicE8vbHzSicx_bun3rvtDOHZLJDKelSIJC7sf1xTcpZLAp_qUNh8BaJub3QYz43VLFAFfCGvgwJ2zSti8UVSJvfaxcBVtBjGfAZ65pY98BJkZGCnrBthq81qtihwp05JcbnLxHjA/s1600/14+Annieinaustin+Shell+ginger+NXNA+tour.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicE8vbHzSicx_bun3rvtDOHZLJDKelSIJC7sf1xTcpZLAp_qUNh8BaJub3QYz43VLFAFfCGvgwJ2zSti8UVSJvfaxcBVtBjGfAZ65pY98BJkZGCnrBthq81qtihwp05JcbnLxHjA/s400/14+Annieinaustin+Shell+ginger+NXNA+tour.jpg" width="400" /></a><br /><br />Two mild winters in a row meant that flower buds on Shell Ginger plants all over Austin didn't freeze but lived to bloom, surprising many of the gardeners who had nurtured them for years without ever seeing a flower. Sometimes patience is rewarded with great beauty. <br /><br /> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">This post was written by <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/14662139490401110432" target="_blank">Annie in Austin </a>for her Transplantable Rose blog. </span></i></span></span><br />Annie in Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14662139490401110432noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29414556.post-54017847110207689172013-07-16T00:42:00.000-05:002013-07-16T17:32:41.728-05:00A surprisingly Pleasant, Rainy GBBD for July, 2013<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Rain is a big deal here, and it rained today! I watched through the kitchen window as the rain ran down the chain into the barrel and then stood on the front porch listening to the welcome sound. Instead of dust we had raindrops. Instead of the 104°F of Saturday afternoon, temperatures on Monday afternoon never broke 80°F. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The chance to make a Garden Blogger Bloom Day post featuring petals and leaves dampened by raindrops doesn't come along very often! I caught a few photos, mostly of plants near the house, and mostly of flowers with petals that hadn't disintegrated to mush <i><b>in the rain</b></i>.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span><br /><br />There are two more rain chains directing water into the very important, long back wall border. This very desirable morning-sun, afternoon-shade spot is jammed full with Blue Plumbago, Tropical Milkweed, a Meyer's Lemon, a Satsuma orange, 'Carmen' peppers, a climbing rose, Grandma's phlox, Blue Butterfly Clerodendron, Pink cuphea, Burgundy oxalis, black Ophiopogon, Coreopsis 'Crème Brulee', three passalong daylilies and more, <i><b>in the rain</b></i>. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Some years ago a couple of bulbs of Amarcrinum were given positions in this special, long border - the fragrant pink flowers appeared in the last post and even more flower stalks are up now. Here is x Amarcrinum 'Fred Howard' <b><i>in the rain</i></b>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /><br />Over by the garden gate the Cenizo/Texas Sage had popped into bloom</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /><br />Across from the Cenizo a daylily that had bloomed a while ago is surprising me. It appears that the developing bloom stalk stalled and shut down when we started seeing temperatures over 100°F. Now the stalk has extended and the buds are swelling, long after the other flowers faded. Here is Hemerocallis 'Devonshire' <i><b>in the rain</b></i>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br />The daylily, Firecracker plant and salvia have all been here for years, but on the other side of the daylily is a more recent addition, Asclepias currasivica 'Silky Gold'. This all-yellow selection of tropical milkweed seems to be settling in well and it sure does look pretty <i><b>in the rain</b></i>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /><br />Closer to the back fence a young 'Catawba' crepe myrtle bows down with the weight of water-logged blossoms. This tree is only shrub-sized right now, but it has the potential to transform this part of the garden as it grows into a tree. </span><br />
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There are a couple of beds in the garden that usually bloom with red, white & blue flowers around Memorial Day or the Fourth of July. Those beds did not deliver this year, but a large patio container is displaying patriotic colors today. Here's a white Datura AKA Angel's Trumpet, with blue-violet petunias, white hummingbird sage and red hummingbird sage, <i><b>in the rain</b></i>. <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span><br />
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Carol of May Dreams Gardens started Garden Bloggers Bloom Day and keeps the links for all who want to be part of this pleasant tradition. This is her <b><a href="http://www.maydreamsgardens.com/2013/07/garden-bloggers-bloom-day-july-2013.html" target="_blank">July post. </a></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />If I can get a complete list of what's in bloom along with the botanical names, it will appear at <a href="http://anniesaddendum.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Annie's Addendum. </a> </span></span><br />
(<a href="http://anniesaddendum.blogspot.com/2013/07/gbbd-list-for-july-2013.html" target="_blank">That list</a> is now up, with a few more photos)<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">This post was written by <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/14662139490401110432" target="_blank">Annie in Austin </a>for her Transplantable Rose blog. </span></i></span></span> </span></span>Annie in Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14662139490401110432noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29414556.post-73623050540864743642013-06-29T16:33:00.000-05:002013-06-29T16:33:46.329-05:00When the Garden Is In Heat <i><span style="font-size: x-small;">This post was written by <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/14662139490401110432" target="_blank">Annie in Austin </a>for her Transplantable Rose blog. </span> </i><br />
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The plants aren't howling and writhing like cats in heat, but gardeners in Austin would probably like to howl today...<br />
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Even though my garden has a lot of shifting, filtered shade, the combination of sun and heat makes the blossoms on some plants change color. Here's 'Vi's Apricot' daylily on May 1st - there is a rosy blush over the petals<br />
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The first flush of blooms finished weeks ago, but the daylily sent up more stalks and is now reblooming. The flowers have lost the rosy blush, but the diamond-dusting shows up even more strongly.<br />
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One of the 'Fred Howard' Amarcrinum bulbs bloomed a few days ago. Yesterday it had faded to this<br />
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while another bulb - just opened - showed the true color<br />
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Today that second bulb is fading fast<br />
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I bought a new little crinum from the <a href="http://www.tcmastergardeners.org/" target="_blank"><b>Travis County Master Gardeners</b></a> tent at the <a href="http://www.zilkergarden.org/index.html" target="_blank"><b>Zilker Park </b></a>Garden Festival a couple of months ago. This is<i> Crinum oliganthum</i>, a dwarf Caribbean variety. The beautiful flower lasted one day.<br />
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Passalong Crocosmia came from Austin friend Martha in 2008 and were planted in front of one of the 'Acoma' crepe myrtles. They've declined in that spot so I moved a few bulbs nearer the patio arch and watched them thrive. I'm not sure what makes this spot better, but I love the orange Crocosmia with the violet Calibrachoa! <br />
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The sweet name fooled me into planting Angelonia in a sheltered spot when I last bought it. That plant bloomed a wishy-washy pink but this gleaming Angel can take very strong sun & heat. I took a photo with the thermometer at 107°F and the sun still blazing on the container.<br />
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The blue plumbago does not like prolonged cold spells - they can knock it down to the ground - but these last days of 100°F, 105°F and 107°F haven't discouraged it one bit. The color hasn't faded, either.<br />
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Has the heat changed the color of my newest crepe myrtle? Is it really the 'Muskogee' that the label promised or do I have an imposter? I've wanted that variety for years after seeing it bloom around Austin, especially after <a href="http://www.penick.net/digging/" target="_blank">Pam/Digging</a> planted one in her front garden and the flowers looked a lot like the lilacs I grew in Illinois. I bought a 'Muskogee' in 2011 but it didn't do much last year. This June it is finally in bloom, but the flowers don't look like lilacs to me - they look almost exactly the color of Mexican Oregano.<br />
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Planting at this time of year may not be wise, but I did it anyway... we'll see if I get away with it. One of the hypertufa troughs was planted with snapdragons. They looked good for months but last week did them in so they needed to be replaced. Maybe this portulaca from <a href="http://www.bartonspringsnursery.net/" target="_blank"><b>Barton Springs Nursery</b></a> will do OK, and if the <i>Dicliptera suberecta</i> lives the hummingbirds will be happy. Jewels of Opar is a new plant for me - it has a reputation as an opportunistic reseeder so I've been hesitant so far, but the variegated kind was irresistible. <br />
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">This post was written by <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/14662139490401110432" target="_blank">Annie in Austin </a>for her Transplantable Rose blog. </span> </i><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">S</span></b>even years ago I started a blog on a whim, mostly so I could comment on other blogs (back then you needed a Blogger ID just to comment). I named the blog The Transplantable Rose and posted a photo of my white perennial hibiscus with the title <a href="http://annieinaustin.blogspot.com/2006/06/define-gaudy.html" target="_blank">"Define Gaudy"</a>. The Hibiscus 'Blue River II' is still alive but the ground warmed up slowly this spring, so we have buds instead of blooms this June 7th.<br />
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And a new Passalong Plant from <a href="http://www.penick.net/digging/" target="_blank"><b>Pam/Digging,</b></a> called Monarda 'Peter's Purple', is currently wearing the crown as Most Gaudy. I have tried Monarda over & over since we moved to this house nearly nine years ago... only a couple of those plants lived at all and none bloomed until this powerhouse took root last summer. <br />
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<br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">A </span></b>glance at the first few posts reminds me that plants can grow a great deal in seven years - the first triangle bed with the 'Little Gem' Magnolia was brand new in June 2006.<br />
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Yesterday there were 12 flowers open at once on a tree that is dwarf by Southern Magnolia standards, but still quite a presence in this small garden!<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">A </span></b>post about the double <a href="http://annieinaustin.blogspot.com/2006/06/passalong-plant-from-my-father.html" target="_blank"><b>Mock-Orange from my dad's garden</b></a> showed it blooming in the newly-made Secret Garden. I took the photo for the blog, but it ended up being a memory - that Mock-Orange didn't make it through alternating days of flood & drought. But do you see that tiny fig tree close to the white iron fence? It is no longer tiny. <br /><br />
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The Secret Garden seems a little more Secret today, with the now-large fig tree, crepe myrtle and pomegranate casting shade, borders on all the edges, a different bench and the usually-unhappy grass replaced by stepping stones & decomposed granite.<br />
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Another summer is on the way, perhaps preparing to draw its twin daggers of heat and drought to murder the plants I love. But just for today, I will celebrate that the garden is fuller, the shrubs are larger, a few tomatoes and peppers are getting ripe, the beds and borders are stuffed with plants native and adapted, the containers are stuffed with plants that are totally inappropriate and/or beloved for sentimental reasons, and the birds, insects, lizards, and squirrels think it's just swell.<br />
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I may not write often, but I'm not giving up yet. Year 8? Bring it on. <br />
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;"> This post, "Gaudy Redefined" was written by Annie in Austin for her Transplantable Rose blog. </span></i><br />
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<br />Annie in Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14662139490401110432noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29414556.post-44973872928365184192013-05-16T16:56:00.001-05:002013-05-19T10:22:44.221-05:00Garden Bloggers Bloom Day May 2013<i>This post was written by Annie in Austin for her Transplantable Rose blog.</i><br />
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The May garden has few surprises, but unexpectedly cool nights, days under 90°F and some rain in the last month have made the garden look greener than usual. Funny thing - although the rain wasn't heavy enough to refill the reservoirs and it didn't sink deep enough for the trees and shrubs, there was enough near the surface to pump up the grass paths around the Trapezoid Walk. <br />
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In other years the daylilies have been in full swing by mid-May. In this odd year, the passalong dwarf daylily 'Vi's Apricot' has some flowers - here mingling with the annual larkspur:<br />
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Another passalong, the Orange Daylily/Ditch Lily from <a href="http://gardenerofgoodandevil.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"><b>Gardener of Good & Evil</b></a>, has bloomed with more larkspur, a patch of <i>Salvia farinacea</i> started with shared plants from <a href="http://wwwrockrose.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><b>Rock Rose</b></a>, and a brand new 'Silky Yellow' tropical Milkweed from <a href="http://www.naturalgardeneraustin.com/" target="_blank"><b>The Natural Gardener</b></a>...<br />
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Other varieties like the 'Best of Friends' from <a href="http://www.penick.net/digging/" target="_blank"><b>Pam at Digging</b></a> have made buds but none are open yet. Our weather is now changing from damp to dry with temperatures soaring up into the 90's F - sure hope all these buds won't be blasted!<br />
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Seedlings from the annual larkspur turn up all over the garden each year in late winter. Some seedlings are weeded out - many are left to bloom in the spots they have chosen - larkspur popped up with the Oakleaf Hydrangea. This variety is 'Snow Queen' and the plant is in bloom for the third spring in a row. <br />
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<i>Salvia coccinea</i>, Hummingbird sage, also seeds around. I planted the lavender but these Hummingbird sages not only planted themselves - they've selected their own color scheme. Behind the scrim of salvias and lavender you can glimpse the climbing mini-rose, 'Red Cascade'. <br />
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Also self-selecting are the annual poppies. This one turned up in a <a href="http://divasofthedirt.blogspot.com/2012/03/2011-november-glindas-garden-day.html" target="_blank"><b>hypertufa trough</b></a> on the patio.<br />
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Near the trough are two small native wildflowers that were purchased and planted so we could see them from the table. Four nerve daisy blooms most of the year but the Blue-eyed grass usually makes a short visit. The unusual weather has kept it blooming.<br />
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A couple of feet away is a little tapestry composed of Silver ponyfoot, White-flowering sedum and a wandering Ice Plant. <br />
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After seeing <a href="http://www.fieldandfeast.com/guest-bio/renee-studebaker/" target="_blank"><b>Renee Studebaker's</b></a> garden on tour last year, I came home and pruned the fig tree and the pomegranate tree in the Secret Garden, hoping to make them more productive. That pruning also gave more sun to the Pineapple Guava and it has more flowers than ever before! Will there be fruit this year?<br />
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Another shrub in bloom now is a fragrant, double, yellow oleander, growing in a bottomless wooden box. Twelve years ago this large shrub arrived as a one-foot-tall rooted cutting from Plant Delights. If you want to grow one, check out the current <a href="http://www.plantdelights.com/Nerium-oleander-Mathilde-Ferrier-Mathilde-Ferrier-Hardy-Double-Yellow-Oleander/productinfo/3785/" target="_blank"><b>Plant Delights catalog</b></a>. <br />
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Near the Sweetheart Arch the Shasta daisies have started, backed up by <i>Salvia</i> 'Hot Lips', <i>Salvia guaranitica</i> and <i>Salvia guaranitica</i> 'Black and Blue'. I like the way the rusty reddish brown of the arch at right is echoed by the burgundy-leaved cannas on the left<br />
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When the flowers are in bloom the insects are blooming, too! These 'Bush Early Girl' tomatoes are making fruit in the vegetable garden near the cilantro, which has mostly gone to flower. I saw ladybug larvae on the cilantro (Good) but also saw a cluster of tomato-wrecking <a href="http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/galveston/weekly_Q&A/p&dc_12.htm" target="_blank"><b>Leaf-footed stink bug</b></a> young-uns on a patio plant (Bad). The ladybug larvae are still there, but the stinkbug offspring are departed.<br />
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From what I can gather from various sources online, this cute little <a href="http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2011/04/04/shining-flea-beetle-2/" target="_blank"><b>Shiny Flea Beetle</b></a> appears to be of Texas origin and seems to specialize in Scuttelaria - the Skullcaps. It seems to be more of a problem in places like Florida, where it is not native... but with 6 kinds of Scuttelaria in this garden, I'd better keep an eye on it. (Looks like <a href="http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/txgard/msg0419465032104.html" target="_blank"><b>friends on the Texas GardenWeb</b></a> are also seeing these little beetles on their skullcaps.)<br />
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<i>(The botanical name of the insect was misspelled on original photo so this was edited with redone photos and added links, May 19, 2013)</i><br />
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There's another type of insect larva that hasn't appeared this year, although I've certainly tried to attract them by growing milkweed in many close-together beds and borders. Maybe the Monarch butterflies skipped my garden this spring because they heard about the <a href="http://www.titangarden.org/2013/05/monarch-waystation.html" target="_blank"><b>Titan School Garden</b></a> here in Austin! <br />
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More photos and the complete list of what is in bloom with botanical names can be found at <a href="http://anniesaddendum.blogspot.com/2013/05/gbbd-list-for-may-2013.html" target="_blank"><b>Annie's Addendum.</b></a><br />
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Links to Garden Bloom Day posts from all over can be found at the <a href="http://www.maydreamsgardens.com/2013/05/garden-bloggers-bloom-day-may-2013.html" target="_blank"><b>May Dreams Garden Blog</b></a>. Happy May Dreams, Carol! <br />
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<i>This post, Garden Bloggers Bloom Day May 2013, was written by Annie in Austin for her Transplantable Rose Blog. </i>Annie in Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14662139490401110432noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29414556.post-57321855833336136852013-01-17T02:39:00.000-06:002013-01-17T02:39:01.172-06:00A Chilly January GBBD with Foliage AddedMay Dreams Carol started Garden Bloggers Bloom Day in February 2007 and <a href="http://www.annieinaustin.blogspot.com/2007/02/garden-bloggers-bloom-day.html" target="_blank"><b>I joined in right away</b></a>. Sometimes I've skipped a few months and sometimes I put a list on Annie's Addendum without a post. A funny thing happened... taking bloom photos around the 15th of the month has become a habit. Even when there was no post or list on the blog, it's quite likely that I have taken pictures, images stored in a file, ready to inform and remind me what happened that month. <br /><br />The weather has been chilly for Austin - not unreasonably cold but with enough freezing nights to knock off tender plants. I wasn't sure it was worth going out to take photos yesterday. The inside plants had flowers... wasn't that enough? <br />
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In April 2006 I took an out-the-window photo past a potted florist geranium, <i>Pelargonium</i> 'Fantasia Salmon' on the sill. A few months later I started the Transplantable Rose & that geranium has popped up on many a bloom day.<br />
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This is the same geranium today - woody but still blooming. <br />
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My<a href="http://divasofthedirt.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><b> Divas of the Dirt</b></a> friend Mindy gave me a cutting from her florist-type Kalanchoe in summer 2009. The cutting took, grew, and has turned into two medium-sized plants. One grows on the windowsill with the geranium and some blooming basil stalks that have rooted in water.<br />
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This is the first time the Kalanchoe made buds and I don't know what color the flowers will be - maybe red?<br />
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The Andean Silver Sage AKA <i>Salvia discolor</i> didn't do much all summer, but I liked it enough to bring it inside in late November. Since then there have been a few flushes of light bloom... such tiny flowers and quite sticky foliage, but what a wonderful sort of violet-navy color up close.<br />
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Mother of Thousands is another kind of Kalanchoe - it's viviparous or live-bearing, with tiny plants forming on the edges of some leaves, ready to drop & start more. The original plant came from my friend Carole about 10-years ago and although it's long gone, there are always a few new plants-in-progress. In places like Florida they can be invasive, but we seem to have enough cold weather to keep them from living too long. One plant growing in the ground outside had reached 7-feet tall at the beginning of December and was in bud, but a freeze hit just as it was ready to bloom. This one was in a clay pot so I could bring it inside to open. <br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhltK9S2SWQzJcqMkK5Mhi_N8qSo6mX8xMpjekpxqrInFOJwHCFJVkJdIv0Sqax1oEkWu3o1crjFSR67s7x4zYFBovMChfj7Flh2Mhuei_c5ZIin0IlHuDvNZ1XULLvm6EbLyc1yA/s1600/Annieinaustin,+Bryophyllum+daigremontianum+Mother+of+Thousands.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhltK9S2SWQzJcqMkK5Mhi_N8qSo6mX8xMpjekpxqrInFOJwHCFJVkJdIv0Sqax1oEkWu3o1crjFSR67s7x4zYFBovMChfj7Flh2Mhuei_c5ZIin0IlHuDvNZ1XULLvm6EbLyc1yA/s400/Annieinaustin,+Bryophyllum+daigremontianum+Mother+of+Thousands.jpg" width="400" /></a><br /><br />Well, it was still cold so I aimed the camera out the window at a basket of pansies that don't mind a few freezes.<br />
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I could see something red from the window and took the camera outside. Although this 'Pius IX' camellia had no flowers in winter 2010-11 or 2011-12, this winter it formed about 20 buds. A few are open now, and if the weather stays moderate, there are a dozen left. It was an inexpensive 1-gallon shrub in fall 2001, bought as an experiment, to see if it could grow in a deck container at the previous house. After it was planted in this yard in 2005, it hasn't thrived, but it didn't die, and sometimes it blooms. <br />
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The white camellia had a lot of buds - here is one in bloom. Most of the buds fell off - probably not from cold but because worms had blocked up the drainage hole in the container. I don't know if the roots of this 'Morning Glow' can recover.<br />
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The shrimp plant is still blooming away in the Secret Garden- happy for the recent rains and standing straighter as the strong winter sun filters through the now-bare branches of the fig tree overhead. <br />
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Up close you can see frost damage to the blooms, but if I leave my glasses inside the flowers look pretty good. <br />
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<br />Maybe there are too many photos of Mexican honeysuckle on this blog, but if it's in flower, I can't resist posting them. The leaves are getting pale now - if it gets much colder the top of the plant will freeze off.<br />
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Now for the Foliage Followup.. something started by <a href="http://www.penick.net/digging/?p=19942" target="_blank"><b>Pam Penick of the Digging blog</b></a> for the 16th of the month. <br />
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My Divas of the Dirt friend Mindy has given me many starts of many plants in addition to the ready-to-bloom Kalanchoe above. The other day I photographed a group that had all come from Mindy. The Cuban Oregano was started from cuttings but the Mother of Thousands and yet another kind of Kalanchoe, Donkey Ears/<i>Kalanchoe gastonis-bonnieri</i> came to me as tiny plantlets attached to a leaf edge.<br />
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Before the small hypertufa trough came outside for winter it had two of the tiny plantlets attached as you can see in this photo from early December. <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC-nsaegvFBpmWtcm07_3PHWzsqQM64LpSXyKTI0D0kxKVYvFGUdpy46mXjNs66757XhPIsmhQG-P9yWgCBZbo-J6o6iL7i0eghGePwvm9Qd_jMZD4mbe1f4ar-D9q9xELtpEcKg/s1600/AnnieinAustin+Donkeys+Ears+Kalanchoe+txt+.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC-nsaegvFBpmWtcm07_3PHWzsqQM64LpSXyKTI0D0kxKVYvFGUdpy46mXjNs66757XhPIsmhQG-P9yWgCBZbo-J6o6iL7i0eghGePwvm9Qd_jMZD4mbe1f4ar-D9q9xELtpEcKg/s400/AnnieinAustin+Donkeys+Ears+Kalanchoe+txt+.jpg" width="400" /></a><br />
Thanks, Mindy! <br /><br />
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You can find a <a href="http://anniesaddendum.blogspot.com/2013/01/gbbd-list-for-january-2013.html" target="_blank"><b>complete list of everything </b></a>I could find with a flower on it, written with my best try at correct botanical names, over at Annie's Addendum, the companion blog to the Transplantable Rose.<br />
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When I was a child, my grandmother made pfeffernusse cookies. My younger brother liked them better than I did, but he also liked licorice - which I hated. Anise may not be <i>quite</i> the same as licorice, but the flavors and scents were similar enough to turn me off. And pfeffenusse were hard! No wonder the nickname was Pepper Nuts. Adults liked them with coffee but the children preferred chocolate chip cookies. <br /><br />We didn't have the recipe after Grandma Anna died so my mom tried recipes from cookbooks and the kind of pamphlets that were often passed out with ingredients bought at the store. The results were okay, but they didn't have the same texture as the adults remembered. Years went by and Anna's grandchildren grew up to have homes of their own.<br />
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One year my sister Josie hauled Grandma's old cabinet-style treadle sewing machine up from our parents' basement, wanting to clean & polish it and give it a place of honor in her home. After a stuck-shut drawer was opened, Josie discovered a cache of silk and cotton embroidery threads, along with a tattered yellow newspaper clipping with the recipe for the pfeffernusse.<br />
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Josie kept the threads but the clipping was turned over to me - by that time I loved to bake for the family and I'd also learned to enjoy the flavor of anise.My dad and uncle gave the Pepper Nuts a thumbs-up after tasting them, agreeing they tasted like Grandma's. <br /><br />There was no clue on the paper to tell us where Grandma got the recipe or how old it was, although we're sure it was in use before the mid-1950's. In a few weeks I'll use this recipe again, to bake and pack and share the cookies with my far-flung family. <br />
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<br />Heat together until blended: <br />1/2 cup molasses ( I use dark full-flavored)<br />
1/2 cup light corn syrup<br />
3/4 cup brown sugar<br />
1/4 cup lard (the original recipe called for lard but I always substituted vegetable oil.) <br />
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1/2 teaspoon cinnamon<br />
1/2 teaspoon powdered anise (or 1 and 1/2 teaspoons anise extract)<br />
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves<br />
1/4 teaspoon allspice<br />
1/8 teaspoon ground black pepper<br /><br />Sift together 3 and 1/2 cups flour<br />
1 and 1/2 teaspoons baking powder<br />
1/4 teaspoon baking soda<br /><br />Mix well. Cover dough and let stand overnight at room temperature.<br />
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Roll into 1-inch balls. Bake on parchment paper at 350 degrees F for approximately 12-15 minutes. When cool, roll in powdered sugar. Store in tightly covered tins in a cool dry place for several weeks to mellow the flavor.<br />
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I have a vague idea that some of the dough used to be rolled out and cut with an angel cookie cutter to be tied on the Christmas tree as an ornament. I can remember the angels hanging, but I'm not sure if it was really the pfeffernusse dough or if it was gingerbread dough. Either one should work.<br />
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<i>This post was written by Annie in Austin for her Transplantable Rose blog. </i><br />
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<br /><br />Annie in Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14662139490401110432noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29414556.post-62332718077403655192012-11-15T00:57:00.000-06:002012-11-15T00:57:35.283-06:00Blue Clerodendons & Pecans for November GBBD<i> This post was written by Annie in Austin for her Transplantable Rose blog.<br /></i>
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One Blue Butterfly Clerodendron cavorted with a Mutabilis rose a few weeks ago but their romance faded as the sun's angle changed and the shade from our two pecan trees deepened.<br />
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The rose stopped blooming and the Blue Butterflies float alone now. After the leaves fall the strong winter sun may tempt the rose to bloom again, but the clerodendron plant will die down once the temperatures drop below 30°F. <br />
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The pecan trees dominate the back garden year round, casting light shade when leafless, so we can grow a spring vegetable garden, but in late fall their shade is at its heaviest, casting a gothic gloom over the south end of the yard. <br />
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I first sang to the trees in public in March 2007 when <a href="http://annieinaustin.blogspot.com/2007/03/arizona-ash.html" target="_blank"><b>the demise of an Arizona Ash called for a music video</b></a>. That was nearly six years ago! The pecans are even more important in our little garden world so they should have a turn, too. Last weekend my husband Philo and I turned my "For A Tree That Keeps On Giving, Plant Pecan!" song into a music video, intended to amuse anyone who has ever lived with a very large, very messy tree:<br />
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I hope you'll soon be singing along ..."for a Tree that keeps on giving "Plant Pecan!"<br />
A collection of our garden songs and videos are at <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/kaefka" target="_blank"><b>our Roots in Austin YouTube station </b></a><br />
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Since so many of the plants in bloom right now are the same flowers that have been in bloom for months, they'll go in a Garden Bloggers Bloom Day List (with more photos and my best shot at the botanical names) over on my companion blog <a href="http://anniesaddendum.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><b>Annie's Addendum</b></a><b>. </b> That way the rest of this page can be filled with photos of the Blue Butterflies still whirling while old Jack F. lurks in the shadows with his ice-crystal knife. <br />
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I'm not sure what name will on the tag if you buy this plant in a nursery... it could say Blue Butterfly Clerodendron or Blue Cat Whiskers, <i>Clerodendrum ugandense</i>, <i>Clerodendrum myricoides</i> 'Ugandense' or perhaps <i>Rotheca myricoides</i> 'Ugandense'. The zone 9 plant is marginally hardy here in Austin - a couple of my plants have lived through winters with temperatures around 18°F, but even with heavy mulching they died back hard and were slow to recover the next spring. I've tried to hedge my bets by keeping at least one plant in a container in the garage over winter. <br />
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Here's the plant that was in the garage last year, now on the patio<br />
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The Blue Butterfly plant is so lovely that I wanted more! I've had some luck getting cuttings to root in potting soil lightened by the addition of perlite. (Don't be shocked when the not-lovely scent of the cut or crushed foliage reaches your nose... it stinks!) Some of the cuttings failed but a few plants made it. They were very slow to get going, but two were finally robust enough to go to friends this spring. A third was planted here near the Meyer's lemon on the back housewall. This bed is my magic spot, with a faucet nearby, the area bathed in morning sun but protected from hot west sun and north winds, the soil regularly composted and the plants tenderly mulched. No wonder the Clerodendron is More than Happy! <br />
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Since the winter months of January and February 2012 were relatively mild, the original passalong plant from my friend Ellen had an early start in the triangle bed. Now it's more than 5-feet tall and still blooming, with wide spread branches. I took this photo this afternoon and decided to make it into a poster. <br />
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Happy Garden Blogger's Bloom Day from Annie & Philo in Austin! Please visit <a href="http://www.maydreamsgardens.com/2012/11/garden-bloggers-bloom-day-novmber-2012.html" target="_blank"><b>Carol at May Dreams Gardens </b></a>to see her roundup of garden bloom posts from all over the world. <br />
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<br />Annie in Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14662139490401110432noreply@blogger.com29tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29414556.post-46836157299996985222012-08-22T14:59:00.002-05:002012-08-22T14:59:55.040-05:00It's Good to See You Again <i> Written by Annie in Austin for her Transplantable Rose blog </i><br />
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The ground is already covered in leaves and twigs and pecan husks so that August looks like Autumn, but the days are still hot. An inch-and-a-half of rain last weekend brought a few surprises this week, including flowers that were not seen last summer.<br />
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One clump of Schoolhouse/Oxblood lilies in the front woodland/seep garden is in bloom - and the flowers are Rose-red instead of dark red. This is the earliest date yet for these bulbs, which usually come in September. <br />
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<br />A few flowers opened the expected Oxblood color in back<br />
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The long cold spells in January & February 2011 killed my small shrubby Bauhinia forficata not just to ground level but below. I really thought this passalong from my friend Ellen was gone forever but by midsummer a few shoots came up from some live piece of root deep underground. The shoots were too small to bloom last summer and I had doubts they could do it this year. But I was wrong - the large white flowers of the Brazilian Orchid Tree are blooming again. <br />
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A few tomato plants were cut back, most died, but there are 3 seedling tomato plants almost mature enough to bloom. I've lived here too long to call a tomato "ours" until it is safe inside and on the plate, but we can hope!<br />
We do get most of the peppers - just a few lost to birds, insects or other animals. 'Jalora' is growing under <a href="http://annieinaustin.blogspot.com/2011/06/thought-pops-5th-blogiversary-tomatoes.html" target="_blank"><b>one of the cages we made last summer</b></a>.<br />
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A mix of 'Jaloro' and 'Mariachi' smelled wonderful when roasting and Philo liked them just fine.<br />
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A patch of Malvaviscus - Red Turkscaps was planted in the front years ago. It's stayed alive and managed to bloom last summer but sparingly on a few straggling stems. The plant is almost unrecognizable this year - partly because the weather has not been as hot and dry, partly because an overhanging Arizona Ash trees had to come down last spring. This bed still gets partial shade from a live oak but a little more sun as well as a little more water has made this plant thrive.<br />
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One more nice surprise - the white form of this Malvaviscus or White Turkscap has grown in the Secret Garden since 2006, never thriving but surviving. Last year it didn't make one single flower. <br />And this year? As my friend Vi would say, it's still "not setting the world on fire", but it is alive, and it has flowers and buds, and it looks reasonably contented to be here. I guess that goes for the garden as a whole, as well as the gardener. </div>
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<i> Written by Annie in Austin for her Transplantable Rose blog. </i></div>
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