Annual May Flower Show – On Your Mark, Get Set, Go!

May Flower Show will be here. Will your daylilies be [...]

Fire Ant Bite Treatment

saw a swarm of fire ants stinging away. I immediately brushed them off, stripped off my [...]

Gardening Friends

daylily and iris seminars in both Poth and Gonzales Texas. On the way to Green Acres Nursery in Gonzales, there were two houses just down from the main Courthouse square that I stopped at to take some pictures [...]

Texas Hill Country Garden Club Plant Sale

delivered a load of bearded iris and daylilies up to the Texas Hill Country Garden Club garage and plant [...]

Oak Leaf Mulch

our oak leaves have dropped their leaves now. So our annual chore of raking or blowing the leaves into big piles and then distibuting them around will [...]

Upcoming Seminars

This is going to be a busy weekend. I have several seminars on both daylilies at iris at local nurseries. Saturday morning I will be The Garden Party Nursery in Poth, [...]

Daylily planting instructions and care

Daylilies like well-drained soil, with lots of organic matter if possible. They prefer soil, which is slightly acidic (6.0 – 7.0 ph). Dig a shallow hole wide enough for the roots to spread. We add a long-term fertilizer to the planting hole. Make a mound in the middle of the soil, placing the crown at the top. Make sure that the crown is slightly above the soil. Fill in over the [...]

Irises are beginning to bloom!

Abby Chant Intermediate Bearded Iris

Ray's Total Recall bearded iris

  Spring has arrived! The bearded iris are really starting to bloom. Here are a couple of photos of current blooms. Total Recall is a tall yellow with a huge flower. This iris is blooming in New Braunfels. Abby Chant is another yellow and white [...]

New Braunfels Garden Club

New Braunfels Garden Club seminar and transplanting and dividing your [...]

Upcoming Flower Show

Daylily Flower Show and how to groom your [...]