May 7 , 2009
From the producer: 19 January 2025
Since succulent top the list of late viewer requests , this week Tom and I are thrilled to introduce you to Cindy Arredondo fromDesert to tropic . When her hubby Jay turned his passionate hobby into a career , they create their online patronage to portion out their making love of astounding plant life with other gardener . Since they also sell to local nurseries , you may already have a few that started under their hands .
Cindy wow us with insensate - hardy succulent for tone as well as sun , along with design idea for what she call “ patioscaping ” and “ tablescaping . ” She include interior - happy succulents for your house or office , too . On our website , we ’ll have her all-inclusive plant lists for each spot and how to give care for them .
On tour , we visit landscape designer ’s James David ’s overhaul of a lakeside cove . The struggle many of us meeting is connecting various spots in our gardens for easy change of location , practicality , and a unifying experience . This one has outstanding idea that translate into hand - on labor .
In my garden , my main name and address right now is from one bed to another with lopper in hand . This is round one of spring pruning : the right way now , it ’s the aster , mom , atomic number 47 germander , bulb foliage , rose deadheading , and anything out of ascendency . Any fall - blooming flora can be pruned now to fluff it out .
For those of you growing citrus plants , have you checked out theA&M Patio Citrus situation ? Per its advice , I thinned the Satsuma orange . It ’s painful to snip off little oranges , but not only is it good for the current harvest , it helps the flora for next year . Now is also a good time to apply some high nitrogen fertilizer .
forestall the rain that did n’t come , I sprinkle in Tithonia ( Mexican helianthus ) and cosmos seeds here and there . I work frantically for a few hours on the weekend before the humidness sends me to air - conditioned task . My Finnish genes seem to deepen as the years go by .
Before I go in , I simply must rejoice over one of my favored penstemons , Penstemon cobaea , in the crepe bed . Well , okay , there are many I love , but this one run on my clay grunge , along with the Gulf genus Penstemon .
My other spring sexual love , Byzantine gladiolus , hung on long enough to join it .
Along with the larkspur I seeded last fall .
Seeds are buzz off more expensive , but what else is such a kick for a couple of bucks ?
Well , maybe a fancy iced mocha latte on my birthday , but I ’d rather have seeds , since when I collect these larkspurs ’ dry out pod , and with a short fortune , I can keep this playfulness going for year . In the front yard , every yr I get larkspurs from seeds our neighbour Tom gave us long ago from his parents ’ garden . His dad is now die , so they ’re especially special .
A new treasured passalong is the walking iris in the crape layer , split up for me last year by friends Pat and Tony Wertz .
The cat cove roses are like new plant , too .
Buff Beauty
New Dawn
When I cut them to ticket stub , I figured it would be fall before any flowers , and a yr before they hit the top of the arbor . Now it wait like they ’ll cover the whole matter by pin . These guys have always bloomed , but never with such enthusiasm , or with such shining foliage . No question , the good ingredient for rose wine is lots of sun .
The cat cove likes its reincarnate sunlight , too . Cedric is to the leftfield .
By the style , I cut a few sprigs of lavender to wrap in a paper towel to fragrance the winter and wooly apparel in their plastic storage hanger , and maybe to fend off moths .
Here ’s the big surprise of the hebdomad . Our thorny pear in heyday !
year ago , CTG ’s managing director Ed Fuentes gave Tom and me a few pads from his . I put mine in a pot , where it never flower . At some level , one of its pads fall off and rooted in the earth nearby . And bingo , this year that one bloomed .
Last year cactus glitch made a mess of the container one , so I ’m thinking of cutting off its pads to install along the brook banking concern . Then I ’ll have a Brobdingnagian lot for a Meiwa kumquat !
I guess what I really like about gardening is turning any situation into something positive . My favourite part is connecting to people who bring another variety of continuity to my garden and my lifetime .
Until next week , Linda
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