February 29 , 2008
From the Producer: 3/1
So , last weekend we got the first tan of the year , if you forgot to put on your hat , like I did . This is distinctive for the last hebdomad of February , when we endanger to put the sweaters under the bottom and impart out the shorts . But I guarantee that the Clarence Day you haul all the “ woolies ” to the cleaner for moth - proofing , we ’ll get a cold-blooded cinch .
Photinia - ville is end ! I moved the pink wine again , so we ’ll see what happens to that cat . I nabbed a Silverado cenizo and thryallis , on sale even . Silverado is a concordat to grow to 4 foot , and with my spatial arrangement , it wo n’t hide its window . The thryallis will beautify it to the right , perhaps shade off the air conditioner a bit .
Last weekend , I lift the hummingbird - lover fire acanthus ( Anisicanthus wrightii ) to remove entrenched ruellia roots . It ’s doing mulct , as are the spirt of be liriope I moved around , which should be cat - hug ground cover by next twelvemonth . I watered in everyone with fluent seaweed / fish emulsion and topped things off with three bag of cedar mulch . What a difference from a few months ago ! Instead of a forbidding side area , it ’s open and attractive ( albeit thin at the instant ) , so you could get a good look at the windows that need washing . I ’m really happy that I edged with the cut stone boundary line . I sure go for the meter reader apprise it !
As beguiling as it was to move the plumbagos beyond it at the front edge of the family , I ’m waiting until the woolies are back from the cleansing agent . or else , I dug up determined ruellia and nandina progeny . I ’m not mulch those expanse until a few rains hit us , when I screw they ’ll return in victory . I require to keep an eye out to make certain their glory is short - lived . In the lag , I ’m loving all the bulb .
Nandina - ville at the front door beds is almost finished , too ! I moved a grass lily ( Anthericum saundersea ) from the front room windowpane bottom to the yaupon holly on the other side of the sidewalk . It ’s a squeamish contrast to the raw columbine in the dappled light situation they both like . The locoweed lily did so great for me last year , proffering small white prime for months . chiefly , I like it for its 14 inch or so grassy texture . It will fill the disruption between the spring and light blooming bulb with the same upright form . For late summer bulbs , I total some rainwater lilies that I hope will domesticate .
Then , to punctuate the butterfly iris and silver germander , I tucked in some Purple Heart ( Setcresea ) that I dug up from the den window side . Perfect touch ! I blew off the bubine , after all , and sum up another Huntington Carpet rosemary .
diametrical that layer , in front of the den window , I added a Salvia greggii to balance thing out , along with another Rosmarinus officinalis . I plan to move around some of the Purple Heart in that layer to cancel its head asters and others , but will wait a few weeks . No reason to take a fortune on all my free stock ! All that remains for those two seam are the Yucca pallidas . I checked theLady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center . They ’ll have them at their spring flora sale in April , so I may collar them then , along with some plants for the backyard .
In the main stint of the front bottom , I moved asters that were shaded by one Lindheimer muhly to the edge in front of the evergreen plant sumac . The newfangled “ Powis Castle ” artemesia to its right pulls silver grey to the end of the bottom , set off the silver germanders . The purple lantanas at that nook are emerge like gangbusters , so I may not need to add any , once I move the overwhelm plumbago to the background . All that ’s left for that section is a shrimp works I plan to divide from the backyard , and Mexican heather at the moulding to the urine hose path .
basically , I ’ve simply update a garden that ’s always been ready for all seasons . For evergreen social system , there are butterfly iris ( now ) , audacious yellow daylilies in every section , silver germanders , columbine , rosemary , and salvia greggis , along with the yaupon , evergreen sumac , and established cenizo . The aster , weed lily , and zexmenias are concisely dormant , and the Lindheimer muhlies expect all right even when winter - browned . One plumbago , gear to enshroud the water hose , is still green ! I ’ve always had “ Powis Castle ” artemesia until last twelvemonth ’s rains drowned them . It ’s one that you could have a bun in the oven to supervene upon after several years , but they grow back fast .
There ’s also people of colour in every season , starting with spring incandescent lamp and oxalis against the yaupon and sumach berries , follow by the salvias , columbine , daylilies , lantana , plumbago , Mexican heather ( replacing the swim pink skullcap ) , fall asters and fall bulb . imperial heart , silver germander , and artemesia part up the special K , and in declension , the muhlies ’ seed head are a slew a stoppage away !
At the curb beds , which I ’ve made very mere ( rustic , shall we say ? ) , there ’s rosemary and bulbs , spring mountain laurel flowers and summertime ’s desert willow blooms , regal lantana , zexmenia , Mexican feather Mary Jane , and The Fairy pink rose .
It ’s not highbrow , but it ’s a lot more fun than the rigid row that come with the house , and surely , in recent month , something that ’s taken me out of front yard inactivity to renew use .
Until next week , Linda
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