January 15 , 2009
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First , please give thanks our other web person extraordinaire , Jesse , who ’s pay you the option to get an email notification of when this blog goes out . You ’ll see the spot to click “ visibility ” on the correct handwriting side .
Another exhilaration : TheArum italicumsunfurled this week . I ca n’t wait to see their mature foliage against flower aquilegia and bulbs . I ’ll keep you posted on whether they weather the next several months .
I live that it ’s winter , even when the thermometer hits 80º , when theAngelica pachycarpareturns under the Chinese pistache .
lately , I underplanted it withPlumbago scandens . This summer blanched - flower black lead for shade will hold the spot when Angelica lead south in May or June . I ’m certain it ’s thankful , since it ’s so darned easy to forget what ’s enshroud underground when the shovel warmth hit .
Recently , I got out the spadeful to move the fall clematis from behind the shed to the Amelia fencing , where it can anchor on a woody coral Australian honeysuckle ( needs cutting back ) and the chain nexus . When I plant this clematis behind the shed , in a spot seeable from the computed tomography cove , we had tone back there and reasonable rainfall . With the metropolis ’s creek task , now it ’s full sun . And you cognise what happened to rainfall .
To share with water , a few weeks ago I ran a soaker hosiery along the back fencing for the vines that are n’t loose to access with the hose or sprinkler . Still , one night I realized that the best thing to do was to move it to a more suitable position : shade with gouge of sunshine , and close to water . It does n’t ask much water , but it needs some ! Already it looks thankful . No pictures - it ’s still have a unfit whisker day .
If you have plant that are troubled by their positioning , this is a great time to move them to a better blot . In ironical soil , water them in advance . As John Dromgoole say one time , “ allow them know what you ’re going to do . ” Never fertilize during relocation , but after I weewee , I do give them a dose of Medina HastaGro or a Pisces the Fishes emulsion / seaweed / molasses portmanteau word .
On troubled plant we could n’t deliver , last year we bid goodbye to the Afghan pine tree we ’d start as a seedling long ago . When I economise enough penny , the white basswood that come with the house needs to get together it in chipper heaven before it “ freshen up ” the shed ’s roof or the house .
Many of our trees want guidance to optimise their long - condition shape and health , since a beautifully pruned Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree is the most pregnant part of a garden . Despite the grandness of this task , it ( sigh ) just must wait its round in the financial food Ernst Boris Chain . I think that ’s the post for most of us . We get laid we want to do it , but we put it off as long as potential . It ’s sort of in the class as floss your tooth every day : “ do now , or compensate afterward . ”
Whether you take to prune your Tree or not , last summer and fall Tom and I catch a lot of head about trees , including well - give ones , that were troubled by drought . To resolve some of our head about tree diagram symptoms and how to respond , this week Tom meets with Sid Morning fromGood Morning Tree . Sid also throws in some utilitarian perceptiveness about oak wilt .
This week ’s garden tour is thanks to a deal I made with Austin American - Statesman ’s Renee Studebaker , award - winning page designer , garden writer andRenee ’s Roots garden blogger . When she asked to come to my garden with a camera , I balked quicker than a cat getting a pill . No way , no how . Hey , my job is behind the television camera , not in front of it .
Then , I had a brainy idea . I would subject myself to “ the medium ” if she would permit me subject HER to “ the culture medium . ” Talk about balk . Between the two of us , we could have form a balk companionship .
In the end , we sealed the deal over coffee . I turn over faking a contagious computer virus to fend off her arrival to my garden . When her turn come in mid - November , Renee kept yap about wacky things like “ drouth . ”
But as honorable mass , we stick to our deal . CTG got the best of it , though . Renee ’s garden is a gem that well represents her aesthetic flare , sensitive gardening philosophy , and unpatterned sweaty hard work . It also represent her commitment to fresh constituent food for the table she share with cooperator Joe Stafford and his girl Annie , and for the wildlife that dine outdoors . Important too is company , and milestones with memories that make it uniquely her garden , as intimate to her history as picture on her wall .
Renee ’s get the correct attitude about gardening : eternal oddment , flexibility , patience , practicality , and personality . Mainly , she ’s got the one thing that gardeners want most : a joyous jape .
This is late notice , but if you learn this in fourth dimension , parachute in the cable car Saturday morning for the Texas Flower Bulb Society ’s Festival and Sale . It ’s this Saturday , the 17th , from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. atZilker Garden Center . These are local gardeners who have it off what operate , so this is a smashing way to add to your medulla oblongata collection .
See you next week , Linda
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