November 13 , 2008
From the producer: 21 March 2025
One of the frequent questions we get at CTG is evergreen body structure for sun or spook . So , ascertain out this week ’s show for David Meeker ’s mythologic suggestions fromGardens ! His industrial plant list will be online , with a few “ web extras . ”
On tour , meet my new friend , James Bays , in Elm Mott , near Waco . I met him through my early novel friend , Judith Tye , a CTG buff in Waco , who recommended this amazing garden , mainly in shade . On intercept day , fellow headmaster gardeners Barbara Vance and Ila Jean Carothers conjoin us , so along with taping , we had a keen plant yap - fest . On top of that , they all give to a unforgettably delightful luncheon ( James is a superb Captain James Cook as well as nurseryman ) . James even build the intricate garden structure and furniture from Ellen Price Wood he mill himself , sometimes from trees on his extensive property . Here ’s one of his indoor tables . you’re able to see one of his out-of-door benches in the background .
Have to show you this bougainvillea from a few doors down from me . This convinces me that next spring I ’m incite mine from the pot to sunny ground in former photinia - ville .
Tom and I always get questions about bougainvilleas not bloom . I ’ve had luck pass mine blood meal , but what they really need is unrelenting sun . I ’ll allow you lie with how my neighbour ’s industrial plant manage wintertime , but obviously it ’s made it through a few .
Last weekend , I planted my new Abutilon ‘ Patrick ’ in the hideout bed at the opposite end of ‘ Tangerine Dream . ’ I figure it will hide the bald canes of the climbing Buff Beauty rose , and peek through our windowpane .
It ’s nominate for Patrick Kirwin , who provide cuttings toBarton Springs Nursery . Along with my young thing for abutilons ( and thanks to you , for your boost ) , it ’s my personal brushing with fame . I met Patrick last leaping on a garden shoot , where we lay up the fern show . I ’ve met a lot of famous people at KLRU , but the prominent kick to me is a plant named for someone I eff . Well , okay , my sign James Michener andSusan Wittig Albertbooks count for a lot too , and I bring a bobby pin to Molly Ivins , I helped Barbara Jordan onto our exercise set , I rode in the elevator with Paul Simon , and I have a in person signed letter from Lady Bird . But that ’s getting off track . . .
Also in the den bed , I planted two ‘ Valentine ’ blush wine . I do n’t know the person who name them , but I do know the person who betray them to me atIt ’s a hobo camp : Juan Guerra . And that counts , too . Mentored by Dicke Patterson , one of my all - time favorite far-famed people and a supreme , kind gardener , I match Juan at a taping of his first garden design for John Woods ( see it in Video ) . Juan is just as olympian as Dicke , who I ’m sorry to hear has retired from combat-ready duty . But experience Dicke , he ’s not retired from helping every gardener he foregather , and passing along his knowledge to young people like Juan .
I thankPam Penickfor her assurance about their durability and context . I ’d escort them in somebody when we record her garden ( also in Video ) and in her blog , but just needed some more hand - holding . gardener do that so well !
On memorable people I ’ve met , it was Colleen Belk at Barton Springs Nursery who sold me this perennial Gomphrena ‘ grape ’ a few years ago .
It ’s a belated summer and autumn botch , with tiny minuscule bloom that I ca n’t seem to get in focus , and dies back in winter . In give , it returns , fluffier and audacious than ever ( now about 2′ tall ) . I have it in the crepe bed where it get some sun , but shade a lot of the 24-hour interval .
On the crepe bed , here ’s its latest rendition at the correct side . I thank gardener Walt Krueger for telling me about the ‘ Helen von Stein ’ lamb ears .
In the shady rental side , this year ’s Persicaria ‘ Red Dragon ’ is blossom . We ’ll see if it fills in by next year . I can say that when I bewilder a cutting in the ground , it roots in minutes . I bought these last spring on a day that I run into fellow nurseryman , CTG feature in Video , and friend Brent Henry at the nursery . To its left is the unexampled Sparkler sedge .
My works are all attached to masses , in some way of life or other . Even if I ca n’t remember the botanic name , I can retrieve the individual who give me the idea ( or the industrial plant ! ) . For me , that ’s the good thing about my garden .
Until next week , Linda
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