August 12 , 2014
Fireworks in August!
First , handsome deal fireworks for Central Texas Gardener ! We ’d certainly love your suffrage for our SXSW panel : The Future of food for thought : custom get together Technology . It takes just a minute to register and vote . Just flick on the button .
Our esteemed and rattling board includes : Dustin Fedako fromEast Side Compost Pedallers , Paige Hill fromUrban Patchworkand Michael Hanan fromTen Acre Organics . We all thank you for scatter the respectable word at SXSW !
Our garden future lie in plant life that confirm essential wildlife , include food harvest pollinators , while keep up water . This red yucca ( Hesperaloe parviflora ) was on the job rear an eager hummingbird , until I acquire in the way !
On my daily private road toKLRU , I really like watching this front yard evolve over the year with its play on colours and textures , even in drought .
I ’d care to be this hefty . I ’m not .
We do have something in unwashed : structure with lots of plant for wildlife , likeTecoma stans(Esperanza or Yellow Bells ) that attracts hummingbirds , bees , and butterflies .
On the menage front , I was favourable to find the nativeTecoma stans . Note the dissimilar leave of absence from cultivar ‘ Gold Star ’ .
Desert willow is another hummingbird hotshot with its hot weather fireworks .
Even though my crinums do n’t sag a number in heat , so far this mystery one is the only to flower .
Since I do n’t make out well with most yucca , Beschorneria yuccoides‘Flamingo Glow ’ deeply satisfies morphologic contribution in this somewhat shady spot blast by late good afternoon fireworks .
I ’m still explore its foreground choice . For now , regal heart ( Tradescantia pallida / Setcreasea pallida ) gets the function .
Yes , I lie with it ’s common as mud , but who can resist a purple flora that defies drouth and attracts insects to its flower ? Perhaps that ’s why it ’s been such a understudy for years , do n’t you think ? And you do n’t need a level in horticulture to produce it .
A Tradescantia that surprised me is cobweb spiderwort ( Tradescantia sillamontana ) .
This experimentation has been such a success that I may propagate it for the Beschorneria ’s foreground . It dies back in winter , but not for farseeing ! Bonus points : it appeal beneficial insects , syrphid flies ( hover fly ) .
Aptenia ( also called sparkler flora ) just does n’t give up , either . When I rive out the lawn in this orbit , I hold fast in a few cutting off . It has n’t let up yet and even flower in December ! A few ‘ Fireworks ’ genus Gomphrena are drooping over for a chat .
Native frogfruit ( Phyla nodiflora ) is blooming its little oral sex off in this warmth , most appreciated by flyspeck worm . It ’s as cooling as the grass that once lined this striptease , but with so many more benefits !
Thanks for stopping by and thanks for helping CTG get to SxSW ! Linda
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