May 12 , 2011
Surprises every day + Rocking out with Troy Nixon’s rock designs
The good thing about horticulture is a new surprise every day . I guess my best surprise today was 3″ of rainwater ! Kaboshed our Mueller garden tape , but fetch ta love it . Ed , our camera director , order I looked like a “ drowned squirrel . ” He and Steve , our audio mortal , were soaked to the tegument execute the gear to safety . But another surprise this week is my Tawny daylilies .
For weeks , we find out the surprisal coming from our Yucca pallida .
MyAgave celsiitook another stern strike last winter . Although I did n’t contrive to dig it up yet , a few months ago it decided to give me an incentive to keep it around . Our first measurement on April 3 was about 3 feet .
At blossom time , it ’s 48 ” . The flowers begin at the bottom and work their way up .
What my garden really needs , though , is architectural structure . I ’ve hauled rocks by the trunk lading , collected them for free , and one deluxe day , had a gang of limestone edgers deliver . But how do you give it that professional looking at ?
Since I often get this doubtfulness from nurseryman , this workweek on CTGTom meets with Troy Nixon fromEnvironmental Survey Consultingfor some DIY tips from the pros . How do you cart stone , chip them , and come in them ? What about creative designs to share with drainage issues ? How do you do it when it ’s just you , or if favourable , a spouse or a Quaker who got enlist for the price of a cold one ?
Get Troy ’s insider tips from ESC , constitute in 1984 by David Mahler and Judy Walther . They were among the leader to further a “ restitution first ” approach to garden designing that prise aboriginal plants and our resources .
One plant , one shovel , and one rock at a time , that ’s how Kati & David Timmons did it . CTG go on turn with themfor David ’s revelation of his mistake , hardheaded tips , and artistic insight about how they turned their standard in - town grounds into a garden of many levels , front and back . Working with David ’s design , Troy executed some of their stone work .
And , bonus prison term ! David ’s a graphic artist . If you bang Lucinda ’s book as much as I do , now you ’ll meet the man behind its excogitation .
Last weekend , I got around to constitute more cosmos germ . give thanks you , pelting , for this arrant timing !
This was the first summer annual I grew in my dusty garden years ago . As a fresh gardener , I was throb at “ crying magic ” from a packet of seminal fluid . by from their heat resilience , they appeal butterfly and other pollinator .
As Daphne ’s Plant of the Week , I also give thanks garden bloggers :
Pam Penick fromDigging
Bonnie Martin fromKiss of the Sun
Laura Wills fromSome Like It Hot
Caroline Homer fromShovel Ready Gardener
Rachel Strain Graham fromIn Bloom
fit out their blog for first-rate garden info !
Daphne ’s question of the weekis one we often get : when do spring plants form their flowers ? Some form on unexampled wood and some on older wood . Mountain award are form their buds right now , so if you prune heavily , you ’ll give next spring ’s Kool - attention high .
Also significant for flowering plants and fruit Tree : year - round water . If they stay dry in the critical month of bud organisation , they ’ll blow off reproduction until thing look better .
With pruning on our brain , on Backyard Basics , Merrideth Jiles from The Great Outdoorsshows how to deadhead . After pruning , he give everyone a boost with a liquid seaweed foliar feed .
.Tons of events , including theTravis County Master Gardenerstour this weekend . And see all the dandy events they have coming up !
On May 21 & 22,check out theHeart O ’ Texas Orchid Society show and cut-rate sale . They ’ll also have workshops on how to mature these sweetheart .
Also on May 21 , hit theOutdoor live tourfor plant life and outdoor living designs .
Then , on May 22 , from 1 – 5 p.m. , call in a few gardens in east Austin on the Windsor Park Garden Tour . Outstanding ideas , with only a suggest donation of $ 5 for all three . Just show up at one of them to get your pass . 1412 Suffolk Drive| 1420 Ridgehaven Drive|2104 Bristol Drive .
Until next workweek , Linda
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