October 17 , 2013
Spring into action with Brent & Becky’s Bulbs and poppies!
It ’s time to recoil into natural process , folk ! For center - crop up wild flower next April , start seeding now until mid - November . California poppy is one of many native poppies .
corn whiskey poppy are n’t native , but what beauties against aboriginal bound - bloom perennial like columbine .
And with irises , like this spuria .
They ’re bragging favorites with bees , too !
But poppy seeds can be persnickety . This week , Daphne ’s bewilder the tips for success .
She answer another top question : why do n’t my wildflower seeds germinate ?
It ’s also time to imbed cover crops , like Crimson clover , elbon rye and Hairy vetch .
Trisha explainshow they by nature fertilize the dirt , prevent weed in fallow seam , and even operate root slub nematodes . Here ’s her leaning and how to do it .
Now ’s the unspoilt metre to plant perennial , too . Jean McWeeney fromDig , Grow , Compost , Blogsent us ourViewer Picture of the Weekfrom her Louisiana garden . hummingbird hone into salvias , like herSalvia guaranitica‘Black and Blue ’ .
Coming up next : constitute bulbs ! unremarkably , I plant addition Thanksgiving weekend , though any time in November is good . You ’ll want to get them now . No need to refrigerate , but they can betray out fast ! My Byzantine corpus sternum return every yr to join larkspur .
This hebdomad , Tommeets with one of the electric-light bulb masters himself , Brent Heath , fromBrent & Becky ’s Bulbs .
appealingness alert ! Brent enchant us with stories about how he got started with bulbs in Virginia , joined by equally charming married woman Becky .
Now their kids join the ultimate Mom & Pop business , with passion and commitment to embellish our lives with seasonal surprises .
Like me , do you consult to comeback asnaturalizingbulbs ? Well , Brent sets us straight ! Actually , many of them that returnperennialize . Naturalizing refers to those that broadcast by seminal fluid , too . An example : Rain lilies , likeHabranthus robustus , that strewing seeds and also return from the original electric-light bulb .
Jonquils ( Narcissus jonquilla ) can tame , like N. ‘ Sweetness , ’ that even bounce after our Austin coke a few years back . Brent tell us that grasshopper head off jonquils ! Deer usually head off bulbs , too .
In our hotness and humidity , some favorites that northerly gardeners strain to uprise here are one - shot - wonder . brant shows off some reliable bulbs that blithely advert out with us for coevals , like Narcissus ‘ Avalanche ’ , if not drown in sprinkler systems .
Fall is the season forLycoris radiata , this one with white plumbago in my garden . In drouth twelvemonth , they may take a jailbreak , but will return in subsequent year .
ditto mark for oxblood lily .
raw for me in fall 2012 wasSternbergia lutea . Since they made it back this twelvemonth , I ’m adding more . flyspeck like crocus , I can still spot them from one thousand aside .
Spring superstar flower ( Ipheion uniflorum ) is a tiny mid - spring blunder that grows in part shade .
One of my early Bronx cheer every belated winter is beloved Narcissus ‘ Erlicheer . ’
I adore myArum italicumsthat I order from Brent & Becky ’s a few years ago . It ’ll be fun to see mine pop out again in the next few weeks .
Mine have never bloomed , but that ’s not their real dramatic play . It ’s all about standout foliation in semi - nicety , here join by empurpled oxalis , columbine and others .
For summer , Brent commend crinum lilies . Angela Dobes Carverand I do , too ! We thank her for put up thisCrinum americanumand its little visitor .
I creditdesigner Patrick Kirwinfor twist me on to Ipheions . On tour this week , he gets recognition for turning around an old garden for writers Helen Thompson and Charles Lohrmann to lick flooding issues , clinch of shrubs and lack of privacy .
Helen ’s an acclaimed writer and book author , presently writer and editor forInteriors Texas powder store . Her knowledge of architectural and home design came in handy to renovate this old theatre .
Charles , editor and publisher ofTexas Highways cartridge clip , want a vegetable garden , too . model in front where the sun hit , it ’s become a share garden with all the neighbor .
Their rescued true cat Cosmo enjoin , “ Watch it now to get the whole story ! ”
Thanks for stopping by ! Linda
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