My bearded iris are hanging in there. They don’t look real pretty, but considering they are in full sun with no shade whatever – they are doing fine. I’ve already lost a couple of crepe myrtles, angels trumpets, and even a salvia. I haven’t trimmed my iris back – I just have too many of them. I will be doing that in late August, when I start to dig some of my bearded iris up and transplant them. August and September are [...]
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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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 identifying the snake I heard and then saw this morning while I was weeding! Yes as I was bent over in one of my daylily fields this morning getting rid of some weeds, I heard a rattle. I looked over and sure enough there was a rattlesnake curled up under one of the [...] This was a full weekend of seminars (Fanick’s Nursery and Antique Rose Emporium) and rain (we had 1.7 inches over the two days!! now hopefully we will get some more). There were lots of questions from both groups and I will cover a few the basic ones that I heard at both groups this [...] |
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