October 7 , 2010
3 seasons at once; SA Garden Conservancy tour preview
Looks like fall is zooming in .
Sorry , just had to say that , I really did . Spring blooming salvias are back at it . And summer is n’t quick to give up yet , either . moderate out this surprisal on the crape myrtle . Not sure that ’s ever happened before .
Underneath , a few bouncing bets ( Saponaria officinalis)bloomed . They ’re usually pretty lean for me . Until I find the correct setting , I ’ll take what I can get .
by and large , the toads hop into the fountain washstand at night and take off when we come out for coffee . of late , they ’re in all 24-hour interval or by early eventide .
Greg deal that motion picture . For his birthday this week , I fuck off him a tripod to go with “ his ” camera , the niggling point & fool away he baffle me for MY birthday in August . If you ’re married , you understand this well . I figured if he was going to be unofficial CTG faculty to enter video recording and take pictures , I should give him some gear .
This rather look like havoc .
NativePlumbago scandens , Conoclinium / Eupatorium coelestinum , cosmos . The thing falling over in back is Hymenocallis ‘ Sulphur Queen ’ . When it stop dead back , I ’ll cut it off and hope it fly decently next yr . To the right is firebush ( Hamelia patens ) .
I got theC. coelestinumafter I saw its shrub - case drug abuse in a garden . Maybe I ask to lop it to begin with in the season , because mine is floppy .
In any event , like theC. greggii , and now the betony - folio version in front , it kind of take over . Every year I struggle with the quandary : do I want sportsmanlike social organization or mayhem ? When the butterflies descend on them in a few week , I ’ll go for mayhem .
Now , is this the weirdest matter you ’ve ever project ?
Ava Hayes sent in a painting last spring . Daphne go out & nabbed a picture , since this is so unusual . Her office got flood the next twenty-four hours , drowning her computer , too , hence the delay . This mountain Stan Laurel growth is fasciated .
It ’s a genetic chromosomal mutation that develops when the circular ontogeny point , the apical meristem , becomes garble and crescent shape . bump out more from Daphne this week .
This week on CTG , Tom run across with Joann Neal to preview theSan Antonio Garden Conservancy Open Days touron October 23 .
You ’ll come across some charming gardeners and exquisite garden , let in our featured picture , designed by Tony Villarreal with the hand - on gardeners .
See how they created vantage point for close - up link and wide vista . You ’ll also have sex the realistic dry brook bed that lick a flooding incubus . Like all the garden , they have so many fantastic design and plant ideas for you to adapt .
If you ’ve seen Gail & Don Clowe ’s phenomenal Southwestern succulent / Japanese / orchid garden on CTG , this is your probability to meet them in somebody , since their garden is one on this tour !
To ensure you ’ve make the near pumpkin on the block this Halloween , Trisha ’s stick some really fun theme to decorate your Jack - type O - lantern with cuttings from the garden .
Until next week , Linda
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