June is here and with it lots of record setting heat and virtually no rain. This year looks like it will be a record breaking year, but not the good records. Even the weeds are having a tough time this year. The good news is that daylilies and iris are both drought tolerant once they have been established. Your plants may look a little peaked, but they should be able to pull through to the fall when they will rebound nicely. There are a couple of strategies that can help them get through the [...]
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Due to the extreme heat and drought, we will not be attending the Pearl Farmer’s Market this week. We regret not being there, but know that our customers cannot plant during this heat, and the cut flowers are not up to our standards. We hope to be back when the heat breaks. Until then stay cool, and Happy Gardening. If you have any specific requests, please e-mail me [...] JD2 Ranch availability, daylilies, cannas, bulbine, sunflowers, [...] I have been asked about wether you should trim bearded iris back at this time of year. You can trim iris back, but you don’t have to. The rule of thumb is that if your bearded iris look pretty ragged at the tips – from lots of very hot days, 2 months early (south Texas this year) – then [...] plants for the Pearl Farmer’s Market on June 20, [...] At the Pearl Farmer’s Market on Saturday several people bought polka dot plants and I told them I would write up a blog on the plants for them. Polka dot plants started off as a house plant until people realized that they were a perfect plant for the shade out here. Polda dot plants have either pink or white dots/blotches on green leaves. They are a shade plant. They also re-seed themselves. They are frost tender, but with trimming they come back in the spring. They do need some water when the tempertatures are at 95 and above – they look a little wilted until they get a dose of water and then they perk right [...] Our Spring Garden Day was a great success. Thank you to everyone who came down to Floresville. We will be back at the Pearl Farmer’s Market this Saturday. Our cut flowers are beginning to start with zinnias this [...] All I can say is WOW! What a fantastic Spring Garden Day this year. We ended up having over 500 people come through the gardens on Saturday. Our friend Rusty (the master griller) called me the “jackrabbit” because I just kept running back and forth through the gardens answering questions and digging plants for people. Marty and I didn’t [...] The rains we had 10 days ago were great for our plants, but they were even better for the weeds. Every place that we weeded before the rains hit, are now having to be re-weeded for this Saturday’s Spring Garden Day/Markets in the Country event. I even have Marty out there helping me and no, I will not get them [...] |
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