October 14 , 2010
I’m going wild with natives; celebrate Native Plant Week!
One benefit to growing aboriginal plants is that I never get bored . They ’re always busy doing something , like this firebush ( Hamelia patens ) . Over the past weeks , it has step by step intensify in colour .
Soon , it will really go up to its name with fervent tube-shaped flowers that nab wildlife attention before go on winter vacation .
The evergreen sumac ( genus Rhus virens ) is already busy , florescence and fruit at the same time .
Currently , it ’s the “ bee ’s knees , ” but the Mimus polyglotktos have book a dinner date for later .
My first and only frostweed ( Verbesina virginica ) is start to open up .
It ’s a biennial from theLady Bird Johnson Wildflower Centersale in fall 2008 . So , I go for I can get the seeds to sprout . I like its peak and blanched in my really shady layer , and it ’s just in clock time to draw migrating butterflies , one of the white flowers they like .
late , at the Wildflower Center , the annual Partridge pea plant ( Chamaecrista fasciculata ) got my care .
It would n’t work in my garden , though I can savour it anyway . But I might be able to find a smirch for shade - loving American beautyberry ( Callicarpa americana ) .
From specter to sun , groundcovers to tree , there ’s a aboriginal works that work in every spot . Still , like with any works , it ’s a matchmaker plenty : which one works for you ? When you find your gross mate , you ’ll meet rafts of other new friends , too : the wildlife that reckon on us . Your garden wo n’t be static , and it will never be boring .
So , this calendar week on CTG , we celebrate Native Plant Week !
Tom and Alice Nance , Austin ’s Conservation Program Coordinator , pick a few native trees , vines , and flowers for wildlife attracter throughout the twelvemonth .
Now ’s a cracking fourth dimension to constitute , but all year long , get more ideas fromAustin ’s Green Gardenon design , industrial plant , and preservation . Getstatewide resources at Texas Native Plant Week , include guide for teachers & child .
On turn , get together Georgean and Paul Kyle at home in theirwildlife chancel , Chaetura Canyon . This powerful narration reveals how they progressed from gardener to wildlife stewards . chit-chat them in person and learn more about native plant and wildlife at theirTravis Audubon Society events .
I assure you ’ll also love the picture of their chimney swifts , submit from the midget television camera they installed in the column they built!Learn more about their researchand the Word they ’ve write to support these endangered birds .
I also require to thankmusician Robert Skileswho indite the music to celebrate the harmony of humankind with nature .
Daphne features a fabulous native works , Damianita ( Chrysactinia Mexicana ) , to add foliar texture and fragrance in those well - drained stain to soften your erect agave and yuccas .
Andcheck out her answerabout what happened to Ben Lusky ’s laurel wreath , since I bet you ’ve seen this too !
produce a small space but desire homegrown veggie ? John Dromgoole illustrates how the EarthBox can fit a few repast into a tiny space .
Until next week , Linda
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