September 18 , 2008
From the producer: 9 May 2025
Wow and wow is what Tom and I say about this year ’s Austin Open Days Garden Conservancy tour .
Mark your calendars for October 4 , but tune into CTG this weekend for a trailer of these outstanding gardens . recover out more atwww.gardenconservancy.org .
Last give , we call for our camera to one of them , contrive by Patrick Kirwin . He ’s peppered it with spring and fall bulbs , in a anatomical structure that invites continual surprisal with warm textures and repeated colour .
You ’ll also want to check out his fern on cliff bank and intimate bed near the sign of the zodiac . Like all the garden , you ’ll meet raw plant or discover novel ideas for their arrangement .
In my garden , an update from last week : Jukka reports that the plant we call snowdrops is Styrax obassia ( Lumikello ) in Finland : ( lumi = snow and kello = bell ) . Its botanical genus , Galanthus , clear up confusion on common names .
On name , in typeface you take down narcissus Giant Star last hebdomad , it ’s in reality Gigantic Star . In any case , I ’ve ordered more . I ’m also tryingArum italicumand more spring star flush , Ipheion uniflorum , and theCrocussativus . Locally , I plan to nail more variegate guild Allium sativum .
In the interim , the Lycoris that came with the house ( and that I ’ve divided many time ) start pop up everywhere this workweek .
The loss leader of the pack arrive in the front window bed , next to this year’sYucca pallidaand a passalong butterfly iris ( Dietes ) from Pat and Tom Ellison .
The autumn sedum I planted long ago showed up again , now that there ’s more sun in the French pancake bottom . These are coming out ( its color to enrich in a day or so ) next to theDicliptera suberecta , my greatest find of bounce 2008 !
Here ’s a snap evidence more of its leaves .
On chores , I inventoried my seeds , and vow to label them well next year . Once I ’ve planted the saved poppies in two week , I can return my plastic “ food for thought saver ” bath to the shelf ! Last spring I dumped them into the tubs to dry off , planning to put them in baggies later , but that never happened .
This weekend I ’m making my list of wild flower germ . My Monarda transplants did n’t make it , to my surprise , but I ’m live to essay again from seed . I ’m making the net listing for the lettuce garden ( to let in cilantro , parsley , dill , rocket salad , and sorrel ) . more often than not , I grease one’s palms a few transplants just to get things going , but sow seeds every few weeks . Tango is definitely on my tilt after its great performance last year from come and transplants , along with Freckles , and Speckles ( if I can receive it ) some butter lettuce , Black - seeded Simpson , and Parris Cos . I just do n’t have luck with spinach , so I ’m bring through space to try a few new things that catch my partiality .
I move the Satsuma orange from its crapper to the ground in former photinia - ville . I imagine this will be an excellent spot : south sun , and protect next to the planetary house in a warm corridor between the neighbors and us . If it work , by next twelvemonth or two , it will shade off the gas meter and the aviation conditioner without obscure the windowpane . This started when we bring in that its root word had part the pot ’s bottom . To get it out , Greg took a hammer to the corpse pot and we sneak it into a wheelbarrow for me to move to its newfangled emplacement .
Another CTG update : A few months ago , we boast Jeannie Ralston and her Good Book The Lavender Queen . Now , with Amazon , she ’s set up a fund called The Seed Campaign to fund suitable causes . If you purchase the book fromher site , Amazon will give 4 - 8 % of the payoff to The Seed Campaign , AND this give to any Amazon purchase you make when you go there through Jeannie ’s site .
Until next week , Linda
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