March 25 , 2024
Look What’s Coming Up!
It ’s sure an eyeful out there mightily now , everything march their new give washout ! In my backyard , here ’s a drought - defiant duo : imperial bearded iris lead for people of color wheel fun against native golden groundsel . This section of my backyard ’s island bed gets morning sun and a flick of late good afternoon intensity . And here at Austin PBS , we ’re reckon down to CTG ’s unexampled leaping program start April 6 ! ( Check your local itemisation or watch online atPBS.organd the PBS app . ) Coming up April 6 : Create a Native Plant Garden , boast Drake White of The Nectar Bar , San Antonio ’s first all - native flora nursery . ( Some of these talented folks pop over from Studio A where they were preppingOverHeard with Evan Smith , but they ’re often on the CTG crew.)It ’s too recent to constitute give wildflowers ( see why we seed out in fall ) , but those timely fall rains certainly fare in ready to hand to bring us a spring to call up . Any whirl in the concrete cheers the nightmare Austin commute when gutsy bluebonnets and plastered greenthread ( Thelesperma filifolium ) jump over their parkway between a school and the access route . Seems like every curbside – the hotter the better – call for a second facial expression , particularly when burgundy , pink , and white bluebonnets cabbage in . Next week , Daphne explicate if they ’ll be back again next year . Here ’s something to watch for ! I cope with this cutie last weekend when I commence square away up container industrial plant for an upcoming refresh . It ’s an eight - spotted forester moth and only about 1-½ ” wide . On that mirky , nerveless day , it hunker down in a blankie of wintertime - brown Tradescantia , so I apologise for disturbing it and saved that pot for this weekend . Their host plant is Virginia creeper ( and I have lots ) , so the larvae may be tucking into plant pots to pupate . Since then , it ’s headed out to meet and greet a partner . A few Texas mint laurels are still blossom , but the crowing attraction now are clump of cerise mountain laurel hemipterous insect . In entomologist Wizzie Brown’sUrban IPM blog“These insects have pierce - sucking mouthpart that they habituate to feed on plant juices . While the feeding can cause damage to the leaves- often blemish new growth- they do not seem to harm the tree overall . ” She also identifies the voracious genista cat , so keep an optic out for those , too . They can cursorily defoliate a young mountain laurel wreath .
Thanks for stopping by ! See you next week , Linda
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