Yesterday was the Grand Opening of the Pearl Farmer’s Market with all the booth’s cutting their red ribbons and it was a fantastic day. Lots and lots and lots of people. We did end up closing a little early because of the rain – yippee for the rain! (We ended up getting just under 2 inches here at the ranch.) I sold out of the 4″ Peacock Orchids/Absyyinian Glads and out of my bare root [...]
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Peacock Orchids are really gladioli. The flowers look like they should be an orchid, hence one of the common names. These are a perennial glad in south Texas. They are also a very easy plant. Plant them in full sun to part [...] Pearl Farmer’s Market, May 09, [...] Yesterday I had a couple of different bearded iris that were beginning to bloom. The first was Hello Darkness, a tall bearded, which as you can see is a dark beauty as the name implies. The second and quite a surprise was YoYo which is a dwarf. I had just looked at my potted bearded [...] Flowering plants that overwinter and multiply by means on fleshy stems of leaves are called bulbs. The bulbs we grow in our gardens today are native to temperate zones all over the world, the woodlands, meadows and mountains of the Mediterranean, Middle East, and North America. The Dutch have been extremely successful over the centuries in collection and hybridizing new species of bulbs and improving them for reliable garden performance. Tulips in particular, once played an important role in the Dutch [...] Pearl Farmer’s Market, May 2, 2009 Plant listing Potted: Winsome Lady, Strawberry Candy, Bitsy, Chorus Line, Royal Palace Prince Mulberry Connection – specialty Cannas prefer full sun; however they can take part shade (give them at least 4 –6 hours of morning sun). Plant the cannas no deeper than they were in the nursery container. If you have bare root cannas, plant 4 – 6 inches [...] day has finally arrived, and we had our first Pearl Brewery Farmer’s Market Soft Opening. It went off without a hitch – even the occassional raindrops didn’t hinder us (now the rain can come pouring [...] your bearded iris tubers, plant them at ground level with the top of the rhizome showing through the ground. Add some bone meal in the hole before planting. The leaves should be already cut dow [...] Last night I did a seminar for the Men’s Garden Club of San Antonio at the San Antonio Garden Center (next to the Botanical Gardens on Funston). What a great group of gardeners and fun people! I spoke on both daylilies and bearded iris, and just a tad on [...] |
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