November 20 , 2008
From the producer: 13 February 2025
One thing that Brett can pick up as a coach is that every dip , I go crazy when I see folks gathering wintertime annuals too soon . We get a little warning nip and off they go , forget that they ’ll be back in boxershorts within hours . We can rip off our wearing apparel when hotness and humidness assail us yet again , but for the works , it usually means anovulant bug and fungus and general despair .
But , I ’m all for planting wintertime annuals if we expect until close to Thanksgiving . Many of them , including sissy , violas , stock , and calendula , volunteer nectar to overwintering butterflies that show up on those warm sidereal day , urgently seeking nutrition . This week I take in a butterfly on a snapdragon ! One of my preferred butterfly books , by the way , is Butterfly Gardening for the South by Geyata Ajilvsgi .
For a wonderful story on butterflies , and how gardener are making them receive in diminishing habitats , chink out thisDocubloggersvideo from my friend and fellow worker , KLRU Docubloggers manufacturer Domenique Bellavia .
Anyway , that ’s why I reserved annual winter color until this weekend ’s CTG . I lucked into a true find , Alexandra McBrearty , a real - life English gardener who now shovels land in Texas . She ’s get sand , does Alex , and she ’s got good idea too , like pair odoriferous ephemeron against yuccas and other stalwart Texans . In her evenings at home , she turns regular old locoweed into absolute works of artwork , in case you want some inspiration for those snowy nights by the fire . Well , okay , while you ’re outside tending the grillroom with the white spark lights on .
While redact this week ’s garden video , I could n’t resist playing some of it over and over . For one matter , the Clark family turned a evidently old backyard into a garden of beauty that represents the contribution of four generation . But I play back the footage , too , because it was the last rain in May before drought convey over . Ed Fuentes , the artist behind the television camera , could n’t resist shooting a garden flecked by valued raindrops , with grip Joseph Brown protect the tv camera with the fellowship ’s umbrella .
The Clark ’s friends , Earthscapes designer , Mike and Kay Lynch from Temple , launched the garden project with their self-examining musical theme .
I give thanks musicianDavid Lutes , who took the trouble to provide CTG with his instrumentation of Amazing Grace , a transcription that Dawson Clark commissioned to keep going his work atThe fry at Heart Foundation .
I ’ve been so meddlesome that I ca n’t say much about my garden , except that the recent tang did n’t do much trauma . The only fresh thing to show you is myAlbuca battenianain bud . It ’s in the crepe paper layer , and even though it has n’t open , it looks expectant against the whiteSalvia coccineas .
More next week , Linda
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