Just like in the garden when we use the fall and winter months to update and re-do our gardens. JD2 Ranch, Inc. will be re-doing our website and blogs. I will be putting up weekly blogs on the blog, and we will be completely changing our store front. Look for our new website next spring. In the meantime, check our blogs periodically to see new ideas and more garden [...]
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This last week we went on a trip and I stopped at Hem Haven Daylilies in Fairhope, Alabama (eastern side of Mobile Bay) owned by John and Nancy Falck. It is always intersting for me to see different operations and how they do things. I would say that Hem Haven Daylilies has about 3,000 – 4,000 daylilies all of which are in pots! They all looked great, even in mid 90’s with lots of hummidity. They are a registered AHS Display garden with specific gardens beds that include: a Stout bed, a historic bed, and a doubles bed. They also have a commercial area off to the side, and another area where they do their [...] I was walking through my garden and I was struck by a number of plants (flowering ones) that were doing quite well during this record breaking [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] Yesterday was a very busy and long day. First Marty was at the Pearl Farmer’s Market and I was over at the Festival of Flowers. Marty did really well at the Farmer’s Market. I know he couldn’t answer a lot of questions – but for him even answering the simple questions is [...] When I moved from California to south Texas, there were a number of plants I had never seen before or worked with in gardening. To name a few – Pride of Barbados, esperanza, clump forming bouganvilla (in California it is always used as a large vine/tree on the sides of houses or fences – but that is another blog), Mexican ruella, and bulbine. When a friend gave me some bulbine initially – I was in such desperate need of anything green that I could garden with (our new house had very little garden space – that has now changed) that I took it, but I wasn’t very impressed. Well that has changed [...] Deer seem to have taken a vacation from my yard, so for now the daylilies are safe . . They have been allowed to grow and to have scapes and I’ve had some blooms. I don’t know if rains have greened up the deer’s regular grazing areas or if the Bobbex helped to keep them away. But whatever the reason, I am grateful to see some scapes and [...] |
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