Please allow me to share my utter joy seeing the native TX wildflowers I planted as seeds last November finally get visited by honey bees this week! I'm so proud and so happy to do my small part to care for the pollinators who make life possible.
Following up from last week, this week in central TX we have:
Annual (tall) winecup, callirhoe leiocarpa. Not many are ready but the ones growing in areas with a lot of exposure/heat island effect are. Ready when both the seedheads and the stem holding the seedheads are brown at least an inch or so down.
Golden grounsel, packera sp. Ready when they are fluffy and about to blow away. Love these for shade, they stay evergreen in winter too.
Damianita, chrysactinia mexicana. Pic for illustration only, I didn’t actually collect these from the plants at the wildflower center because I’m not an animal. My personal plants for some reason bloomed and dropped seed in January but they seem to be outliers, the wild patches seem to be setting now.
previous post: https://www.reddit.com/r/TexasNativePlants/s/RU3SwZ7jvs
Every week I fill up a compost bin full of leaves. And along my back yard I have a little tree area that I'm trying to keep weeds from growing in.
Wondering if I should use my leaves as mulch, or just keep taking them up for compost
I keep finding crescent shapes cuts in my eggplant and cucumber leaves. could this little guy be the culprit? Who is he?
Should it be one a branch or less?
was wondering if anyone know what kind of flower this is. they grow on the edge of my father's yard. that ice storm did some damage to them and really thinned out their numbers. would love to plant more of them. they will keep blooming as long as I water them all summer long.
thanks
I’m curious to know if any of you fine folks have experience growing serviceberries here?
It looks like they’re not native to central Texas but maps I’ve seen are a bit contradictory.
TIA
Hi y'all
can anyone recommend a landscape design company or person who focuses on making designs around the native species?
Where is Coral Vine?
I've desperately been searching for coral vine/queen's wreath for so long. None at Shoal Creek or Tillery nurseries. Haven't seen any at HEBs. I see it planted around atx and want to find some for my garden. Any suggestions?
I got two groundnut tubers delivered a week ago & planted them in some old leaf mold piles along the fence in a shady area of the yard (which gets up to 6 hours of direct sun) that floods when it rains. From what I've read, I figured this would be the best area for them. The tubers were pretty small, around the size of grapes. I'm uncertain they will come up.
Does anyone have experience growing this? Does it do well in Austin? I got it because it supposedly thrives on neglect, which is congruent with my style of gardening.
I really want this plant to do well. It's very useful and pretty!
Hi everyone,
I'm considering installing an arch across a pathway in my backyard. The whole area is in part shade. is there a native vine that could grow on it?
Looking to buy something that has proven to work. I tried clover once from Tractor Supply but it doesn’t look like its taking. Anything guaranteed that i should i try. Im tired of my kids getting into the mud!
My backyard is a nice mud pit. I’d like to hire someone to build stone borders along the fence similar to these AI images. The backyard has a slope to it. Do you have recommendations for someone or a company that can do this? I’ve saved up some money for this - I’m not in a physical state to do it myself.
Cheers!