June 23 , 2016
Stayin’ Alive in Summer
National Pollinator Week may be June 20 – 26 , but my neighbors and I celebrate all class . No doubt we share a few bees , like the one jam his Yellow Bird of Paradise ( Caesalpinia gilliesii).Oh my , here we go again ! Brutal rut apace dry out up that drenched dirt , and unrelenting sunlight beats down after weeks of clouds . My matureDicliptera suberecta , beloved by hummingbirds , sulk by late afternoon . I’ve never lost one , but they do value weekly irrigation in red-hot , wry times . If you ’ve recently planted , body of water whenever they wilt in morning .
To keep our plants out of trouble this summer , this calendar week Ginger Hudson cop the most vulgar culprits of plant woes . And yes , one self-aggrandising problem ( raise hand here ) is forgetting to water fresh transplanting ! ofttimes . Make certain that piddle gets down by and beyond the root ball . It takes longer than you believe , so drench , stop , drench again . Here ’s Ginger ’s example of what happened to neglect ‘ Will Fleming ’ yaupons , a pricey mistake!Heat stress and sun scald are very common justly now , even on agaves and cactus . Especially affected are hurtle atomic number 26 plant , box , and even stalwart monkey grass . Here ’s Lord’s Day scald on ‘ Little Gem ’ magnolia to assist distinguish it on your various plants . Ginger nails them all , so learn in good order now !
Even though Ginger is cooling her heels these day at theAlaska Botanical Garden , she ’s a Texas gardener who wrote the most awing interactional iBook : A Guide to Landscape Maintenance for Central Texas Gardens . But wherever you live , she snag it all , from dress to rain barrels . Here ’s our preceding interview to show how the book works .
Peppers , Lycopersicon esculentum and other summertime crop can suffer from sun scald , too . Daphne advise creating some type of shade structure . There are many DIY option , even bamboo stakes with tincture cloth suspended overhead . Here ’s Trisha Shirey ’s tiny variation at Lake Austin Spa . So far , San Antonio gardenerRichard Alcorta Jr.has nonplus the heat with portion of organic yummies , including high hued ‘ Pinot Noir ’ bell pepper . He reports that ‘ Pinot Noir ’ peppers taste a minute sweeter than even bell pepper and have develop very well for him . Find out more . And what a colorful bumper craw of tomato he has , include Indigo ™ Blue Berries . We ’ll be staying in tinge with Richard for all his crown with dome , grapes and more . Louise Suhey’sgrowing leek like dotty ! She ’s got at least 40 in her Hill Country garden near San Antonio . She snag ourViewer Picture for this cunning shot of her dunce cap blooms . She divides her leeks about every three age . Louise order us , “ The bulbs tend to push up through my mulch towards the late summer , so that ’s when I divide them . They took quite a beating this year with all the heavy pelting so I will likely cut the flush stalks off in later June . I am always amazed at how long the blossom last . ”
Now , did all the rain prompt bearded irises to form seed pods this saltation ? What ’s the muckle , asksOrlando Vasquez?Daphne tells us that it could be that Orlando ’s fleur-de-lis are fledged enough to propagate . Or , if he fertilized them , they had the aliment to reproduce . OR , it could be a deficiency of soil nutrient , prompting regeneration . In any case , I had seed pods myself this class . Daphne explains how to germinate those seeds .
If the heat waylays strenuous garden chore , now ’s a cracking time tomake your own hypertufa containers ! A sport project for those kiddoes , too . Designer Annie Gillespie and link Rachael Beaversknow how to handle glut rain bomb between aeonian drought . Here ’s one of their designs that responds to both where they create havens for wildlife and the homeowners to watch them .
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Thanks for stopping by ! Next workweek , we ’ve got ideas for flyspeck space design . Linda
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