May 2 , 2008
From the Producer: 14 January 2025
You wo n’t want to miss this calendar week ’s show ! Tom ’s garden is the video segment on our preview of theLady Bird Johnson Wildflower Centertour . Check outCTG ’s Eventsfor tour details and how to visit Tom ’s garden in person . It will also be online on our site . Be sure to watch out our new Videos discussion section , where we file away past gardens and recently , Backyard Basics segments .
I hope that you ’ll contribute before long to our raw CTG blog with pictures from your garden . divvy up your garden questions , new finds , advice , and program suggestions - it ’s your internet site for trade ! But , as always , you ’re most welcome to contact me directly atctg@klru.org .
In my own garden , I grieved as I pull out out the old cenizo in the front layer . Death by drowning . It make respectable to share a picture from its happy days .
A variegate Miscanthus take its place , in substantial estate , if not in ticker . I do bed it for its refreshing expression in this sun / tone situation , and will verify it does n’t feel second best .
This workweek , at last , here ’s the crepe paper myrtle bed tour . It ’s changed a luck over the year . For one thing , specter from all the Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree bear upon its figure . Mainly , my philosophy has changed . Rather than a blast of colouring in a season , it ’s become a cyclical , recurrent journal , with a few annual when I ’m in the mode . In addition , last year I turn a loss a lot by drown . I ’ve added several new plants this bounce and locomote others around . It ’s a continual experimentation !
A few years ago , I took it in a young charge with my first Agave celsiis , one of the American aloe that accepts subtlety and heavy stain . Here ’s the 3 - year - old with Salvia coccinea .
originally this yr , I move the Knock Out uprise and ‘ Hot Lips ’ Salvia greggii closer to the front sun . In their old space , I moved an Agave celseii for the second time ( move into too much shade under the slew laurel last year ) , replace a woody prostrate rosemary with a Forester vertical , and added batface cuphea , coneflowers ( some move ) , majestic umbrella plant ( Trachellium ceerueleum ) , a few more of the golden groundsel ( Packera obovata ) for next twelvemonth early peak , and a ‘ Powis Castle ’ artemesia against the exist surrender - blooming Mexican mint marigold . Out of thought is a long - term Mexican oregano , whose summer - to - fall lavender peak appeal nectaring insects and hummingbird . The break is a placeholder for the Gulf penstemons that I ’ll move in fall from where they seeded in the lolly bed . They ’re so elusive that I could probably move them now , but I hate to uproot a plant this close to overbearing heat . Under the mountain Arthur Stanley Jefferson Laurel are new columbines .
Here ’s the artemesia against pink eve primrose , coneflowers , and ‘ Country Girl ’ mum .
And the Gulf genus Penstemon against Byzantine corpus sternum . Generally , you have to order these heirloom bulbs online . They naturalize and return every April . I adore them .
Here ’s Penstemon cobaea against white Salvia greggii ; ‘ rural area Girl ’ mums ( soft pink bloom in fall and sometimes in spring ) in the foreground . I need to pinch them back , a monthly job until July .
Here ’s a view to the cat rod , with asters , primrose , and the glads . you’re able to see a small bit of Knock Out in the middle of the robustious primrose , and ‘ Hot Lips ’ is mishandle out there as well .
From front “ television camera leave ” here ’s a view to the CT cove arbor . New Helen von Stein Lamb ears , aster , spiderwort , Agave celseii , columbine and genus Penstemon . There ’s also the new Dianella ( flax lily ) and Dicliptera suberecta .
In front of the mickle Stan Laurel , there ’s eve primrose , candytuft , and ‘ Starry Eyes ’ nierembegia . ‘ Hot Lips ’ is just behind them . Along here , there are also garlic chives , oregano , winecup , orange bulbine , August - bloom rain lilies , remainder of fountain bulbs , and various coreopsis . I recently added the variegated allium we mentioned on CTG , and now I want more ! It ’s a beautiful highlight under the slew laurel ’s branches in break of the day and evening shade , but baffle afternoon sun , which I hope will be enough .
From camera left : aster , artemisia , Dicliptera , recoil wager , purple heart snipped from the front bed , the new Agave celseii tricolour , and lyre leaf sage ( Salvia lyrata ) . Since this picture , I ’ve peppered the front margin with Mexican heathers .
Here ’s a finale - up of Dicliptera with the Dianella . The Dicliptera has grown so fast that I ’ve been clipping it every week to encourage branching . I ca n’t hold off to see if it impart on its touted reddened - orange tree prime for the hummingbirds .
So , I ’ve relegate my soul . you’re able to see that this is n’t a fancy garden , but by the time you understand this , the color wheel will have turn . That ’s why we like it . Like Texas conditions , it ’s never static for long . Until next week , Linda
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