February 12 , 2015
Grow up with vines + Home of the hippos artistic garden!
fix something to hide ? Even in a narrow blank space , vines have acquire you covered ! Summer and fall flower Queen ’s wreath is in truth royalty with bees and butterflies .
Perhaps you ’d care to cozy things up with easy - to - control lead jasmine ?
If you ’ve got to contain yourself , check out minuscule vine like clematis .
For shade , I like evergreen potato vineSolanum jasminoides . Mine ’s whirl around an obelisk , assure fragrant little flowers soon . You could do this one in a large container , too .
This hebdomad , allow ’s grow up with Colby Adams fromBarton Springs Nursery , who remove our garden to newfangled heights .
Something unexampled to us is winter deciduous orchid vine ( Bauhinia corymbosa ) . In full Sunday to part shade , it explodes with little , fragrant , orchid - corresponding flowers in spring . complete in containers , too .
Pandora vine ( Pandorea jasminoides ) is another deciduous , redolent spring bloomer with flowers like morning glories . This deer resistant vine can block if not protected below 20 ° .
Crossvine ( Bignonia capreolata ) is a drouth defiant top performer . Mostly evergreen , the aboriginal red and xanthous or cultivar ‘ Tangerine Beauty ’ is busy flower in spring ; sporadic blossom run wildlife through fall .
Much tame evergreen coral honeysuckle ( Lonicera sempervirensis ) execute most in natural spring , but keeps on going through early summertime .
For wraith , evergreenClematis armandiiis a show - showstopper with huge , ace fragrant flowers in leaping . It will take over the world , but if you need to obliterate that fence or cover an arbor in shade , it ca n’t be bushed !
Watch online and get Colby ’s list .
Special invitee Jim Kamas , Texas A&M AgriLife Extension fruit expert , serve one of our most frequent interrogation : which fruit trees necessitate another for pollenation ?
Find out more about pollination(like pecan trees and grapes ) and about plum tree , ourPlant of the Week .
To fend off critters snagging our bloom and food , Trisha show off her favourite new repellentsfrom I Must Garden . In her constituent garden , Trisha ’s had capital achiever with their product to repel cervid , squirrels , and even mosquitoes !
On tour in Hutto , the main critters you ’ll see are pilot around on flowers and fruit . Well , and a few hippos , too , hold open a stalwart watch on all the air dealings .
Donna and Mike Fowler exercise hard in their garden , but they also have a heck of a lot of fun . Mike build Donna ’s queenly chair from Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree pruning on site .
With limitless imagination , any curbside throwing away or thrift store find prompt a originative brainstorm to punctuate every garden spot .
While playful , they craft homegrown art to accent Donna ’s plant schemes . I have intercourse this “ study in blue ” with cobalt bottle tree , plumbago andSalvia guaranitica .
Ever witty former Hutto mayor Mike tuck in subtle political archeological site , like Medicare Man of War bottleful tree , welded by Ron Whitfield . It ’s also a school principal up to pharmacist Donna !
Art and stylistic plant individualise each trenchant sphere . The sunny Texas drought tough area in front sports yucca , aloe and lots of fluffy plant to complement .
A Zen garden with tumbled glass ironic stream start as a outpouring command meter .
The “ stream ” connects to a flaccid , lush secret garden behind foundling gates . The stream also disperses acute rain events to slowly sink in .
Throughout the garden , the Fowlers place carving created by Mike ’s dad , Mel Fowler .
In driest times , their xeric plants get a rainwater harvest home boost .
They bought the empty peck next threshold for Donna ’s lush organic vegetable garden .
Their bottleful tree diagram here resembles a basket of Donna ’s nightly harvests .
Son Luke ’s teepee celebrates aboriginal American sustainability and the family ’s upstage heritage .
There ’s wads more , so get ready to be inspire for your leap projects right now !
Thanks for stop by ! See you next workweek , Linda
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