February 26 , 2009
From the producer: 19 March 2025
Update : theLady Bird Johnson Wildflower Centeridentified the mystery plant from last week . Here ’s the word : Yep . It ’s a weed . Youngia japonica , Oriental false hawk’s - beard . It ’s a middling latterly introduced species to Travis County , but rapidly becoming established here . I ’d recommend she withdraw it and all of its remaining ejaculate from her garden and cautiously destroy them . Here are some links with more data :
www.hear.org/Pier/scientificnames/..%5Cspecies%5Cyoungia_japonica.htmThere ’s even aYouTube video .
Well , pooh . Guess Harvey drive to destroy it .
He ’ll for certain appear pretty when he rust it , since last Saturday , I did n’t tally the garden after the usual errand and house chores . or else , we generate Harvey “ cut ” atBunny Spa Day : a dearly needed manicure and “ hare styling ” to wrangle his spring ecdysis . He was very civil to the House Rabbit Resource volunteers . Even during the medical checkup and spike houseclean , he did n’t get us throw out by “ woofing ” at anyone .
On Sunday garden chore , I moved a few things and rationalise others . Mainly , I went around to make up one’s mind once and for all what to append this spring . 10 minutes later , when explore option for CTG May , I started revising . I ’ll look to see what the experts say . And in make out weeks , our mythical guest course - up will have me revising again , I know .
You may call up a few month ago when I abbreviate off the root ends of the Allium porrum I bought for soup . Here ’s one of them almost all grown up .
I have a go at it sport with food market store food ! For years , I had gingers in pots from musical composition slice off from dinner party ’s remains . We grow a pineapple and when it birthed a little one , we deplete it , institute its top and receive another one . I ’ve had success with planting stock garlic . And we always get potatoes in the compost pile .
White still rules with narcissus , the Viburnum , and the Mexican plum tree in its spring tutu .
From his rooftop pole ( via the cat ravel ) , Sam told me he thought it was with child , too .
But yellowness keep sneaking in , like the golden Senecio vulgaris ( genus Packera obovata)in the back fence bed and crape bed .
At the back of the African tea cove , the Lady Banks rise up is teasing us with the detonation to come , but for now , the first dayflower under its canopy is in rush .
This guy in the Lady Banks wanted his Facebook picture .
Here ’s another narcissus ‘ Sweetness ’ in the French pancake bottom .
In front , theSetcreaseapallida think it ’s still summertime .
The Dutch iris knows that it ’s still winter , sort of .
Here ’s another flush on thePelargonium sidoides .
And speaking of , guess who ’s our node with Tom this calendar week ? Indeed , it ’s Tom Peace himself . Since he ’s only in Texas part of the yr , and pretty darn meddlesome at that , it ’s a real sumptuosity when we can apprehend him for Central Texas Gardener . This time , he speaks to the coolheaded season transitionals for vivacious attention against our geomorphologic evergreen .
And , to illustrate how he combines ephemerals and seasonal payoff in his Lockhart garden , we captured it last spring for this week ’s garden on term of enlistment .
Until next week , Linda
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