January 12 , 2017
Design & Plant Pioneers: Peckerwood & Romantic Courtyard
So , we cerebrate our garden is done ? Oh , never , since someone is always out there rally us with something raw . I ’ve been golden to foregather many horticulturist , including Austin ’s own Art Petley , who introducedSalvia‘Silke ’s Dream ’ , a intercrossed ofSalvia darcyixSalvia microphylla . He give a cut to an Austin agriculturalist who passed it along toScott Ogdenwho shared it withPlant Delights . Now you’re able to corrupt it online and in nurseries .
Daphne ’s flora of the Week , Mexican flaming vine ( Senecio confusus ) hail from — you reckon it — Mexico ! It may be evergreen in warm winters and in zone 9 and above , but tend to be an annual in Zone 8 and colder . For indisputable , it fried in Austin ’s coldest twenty-four hour period in years . Mexican flaming vine ’s such a fast agriculturalist in full Sunday to part shade that it ’s worth re - implant after the last frost date . Summer to diminish , it clamor quickly over a trellis , John Milton Cage Jr. or wire gore , like inRasmey Mau Raymond’sgarden . Bees and butterflies , like migrate Monarchs and this Gulf Fritillary , truly suck up on its flame orangish flowers . This dirt ball enjoy a leisurely lunch!So , why do plants oppose other than some years ? In 2016,Nancy and Rob Hontzgot a bunce of acorns from their live oak trees . They laid a internet to catch gallons and gallon . Then , to make child ’s play out of random acorn and in the lawn , they snag a Garden Weasel nut gatherer . Look familiar?Daphne explain the evolutionary connectionbehind a really nutty year !
Since we ’re gardener , we play a pivotal part in our trees ’ future tense . If you want something forever ( ugly ) , crop your trees falsely . To spare your crepe myrtles permanent shame , Trisha demo the right cutsfor graceful structure and mickle more summertime bloom . On tour in west Austin , Margie and Al McClurg never run out of memory making in their courtyard garden . Organizing a bunch of plant into a carnal garden is both exciting and rewarding . Their co - creator , Sprout clothes designer Jackson Broussardrendered a lovely , cohesive garden from its former randomly organise spring bloomers . He yield it morphologic impingement with evergreens like Yucca rostrata and bitter aloes . shuffle leaf types in massed plantings strengthens line while letting each star beam on its own . To get around the garden , Jackson choose 3/8 ” washed pea plant gravel from Marble Falls . Since that grunge is granite - based , the tan vividness is less harsh than white limestone crushed rock . All paths converge at a central hub , a Bradford pear arbor that shade in summer and warms in winter . Flowering perennials and annuals for circular - the - calendar ambrosia , pollen , and germ guarantee pollinators and birds . Last bound , I ’ve never seen so many busy bee as on Margie ’s poppies!In tardy summer and fall , forsythia sage ( Salvia madrensis ) is a beehive of activity . butterfly , bees , and hummingbirds head for declination ’s delightful jazz group ofSalvia leucanthaandHamelia patens . Hummingbirds head for aloe , this one Aloe ‘ Blue Elf’ . Masses of over-embellished - tinged persicaria spark both shade and pollinator activity . But when you ’ve got four in of dirt over rock , you need a small hike . For years , Julie Clark of Stronger Than Dirt has strengthened the McClurg ’s ground with lifetime - open compost . Margie ’s truly my kindred spirit . She ’s soulful , wise , and funny ( not to say that I ’m those things , just wannabe!).“I have a whole list of things that did n’t make it . idle , died . So we ’re down to what does work , ” she secernate us . I dear want thisAgave attenuata‘Ray of Light ’ , one of her latest experiments . And this gorgeous salvia cultivar , if I can remember the name ! Not one I ’d meet before . I’m also in her buff club for her skill with coloration explosions like Japanese maple and orangish container on the other side of the courtyard bulwark . learn now ! You ’ll love it !
Thanks for turn back by and see you next week ! Linda
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