October 23 , 2008
From the producer: 25 December 2024
On my travels through neighborhoods , I see so many tiny lots in young developments . Some of the young are really “ versed . ” I start worrying about their inhabitants . If they want to garden , how in the heck would they do it ? Since many place , not just the newest , are down on acreage , I took my troubles to designer Scott Thurmon , who rattled a listing off the top of his head . So , this calendar week he join Tom with exciting ideas for low garden or pocket-size places in your great garden . As always , we did n’t get to half his compendium , so check the CTG web site for the complete listing ( at least , the listing for this show ) .
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On duty tour , we meet the scavenger after my own warmness , Link Davidson , an innovative nurseryman I regard a “ trashy creative person . ” What he ’s done in his lowly distance will have you eyeballing that “ clobber in the shed ” or cruising bulky trash day with originative energy .
In my garden , in small recess here and there , it ’s still all about aster . We await their decline explosion just as we anticipate the first leucojums in leaping . Oxalis amount out of concealment to join them in the front windowpane bed .
I ’m beaming I added this Salvia greggii to that layer last spring .
Oh , got ta cohere in this lucky snapshot , a sulfur butterfly on the raw salvia .
In back , here they are in the crepe bed , against ‘ Powis Castle ’ artemesia .
With zexmenia in the gay part of the bed in back
butt against the right side front of the bed , with pavonia and coneflower beyond
Against ‘ Hot Lips ’ salvia to the rightfulness
I have so many because I divide them in January – March . I cut back their frostbitten foliage in December or early January . Within a few hebdomad , the new increment emerges in thump that are easy to comprehend up . This native works roots very quickly and tolerates just about everything .
Here ’s an orange florist’s chrysanthemum I could n’t resist year ago at the grocery store . In my campaign to downsize the container plants last spring , I stuck it in the basis . look even better now than when I grease one’s palms it !
On Chrysanthemum morifolium , I got these at Geo Growers years ago . They ’ve distribute like crazy in the crepe layer through frost , flood , and drouth . They ’re easily divided .
In the crepe seam , here ’s the Knock Out rose against the pavonia I almost compost in March . Both of them benefited from their move .
Along the back fence , the toadflax and lantana look better this fall than ever this time of year .
I ’m sure it ’s because they ’re bugger off more sun , but I wonder if Harvey ’s continual pruning has n’t made a difference of opinion . You well know that pruning promotes bloom on plant that bloom on new emergence , and I do too ; I just get indolent . But Harvey just keeps on fail and going .
So do the turks caps , though they ’re winding down and forming fruits . This one ’s at the back fencing against wedelia and lantana .
A garden like mine is n’t picture sodding all the metre . But as it changes clothes every season , or even every week , it never tires us .
Finally , have to secernate you thatJeannie Ralstonwill be at theTexas Book Festivalon Sunday , November 2 from 2:30 - 3:30 in a jury treatment : “ Stranger Than Fiction : Me and My Memoir , ” and will be signing her Word , The Lavender Queen .
KLRU will also be there all weekend . Come by and say howdy and give me some gardening advice : I ’ll be there from 9 - 10 a.m. on Saturday .
Until next week , Linda
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