Photos from when I visited the gardens in Houston with friends ❤
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Zilker Park Botanical Garden, Texas, USA
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It’s October 1st, you know what that means….
ITS OVER THE GARDEN WALL SEASON!!!
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Self-sown Epithelantha micromeris. This species is native to western Texas and self-fertile, flowering and fruiting off and on throughout the warm season, but historically any seedlings that did germinate in this pot ended up dying off for one reason or another. This past year, a top dressing of coarse sand, the addition of Osmocote pellets, and an overall very mild winter has worked in their favor. This isn't even all of them!
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Bridal Wreath Spiraea
Double blossoms spill down towards the earth in white foam clusters.
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Rose at the Dallas Arboretum
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2024 Growing Season
The start of my planting season is well underway. I'm pretty excited this year. I've moved some things around and building up other areas.
I repurposed a wheel barrow to be a garden container for my potatoes.
I moved my herb garden over to another bed and planted peppers in it's place. I planted red, yellow, and purple bell peppers. Closer to summer, I'll be planting okra - again. We are not a true fan of okra, but damn, it grows so darn well in our climate! I still need to move a few more herbs.
I organized my growing pots a little more. Set up a mulch bed to set them on. I'm growing cherry tomatoes, bush beans, cayenne hot peppers, some lettuce in the tiered pots, and my Meyer's lemon tree is blooming wonderfully - don't know if I will have lemons this year. But's it's still fun to grow it.
I moved my herbs to a small garden in a corner that get's a little more shade. The mistake I made last year was almost scorching my herbs because I placed them in a the wrong bed and had to use a shade net.
Something new I'm trying this year is a DIY olla watering system. I'm using terra cotta pots and a saucer as a topper. I'm using plumber's putty to plug the holes - but it's been a hit and miss as to how well it's working. My success rate is 50%. I'll keep trying.
I still have my blackberry bushes, they've been trimmed way back, but hope they bounce back soon.
Happy Gardening!!!
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Isamu Noguchi, Cullen Sculpture Garden, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas ,1984-1986
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Longhorns in the meadow
Photography by Jon Holiday
Source: photosbyjon.com
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My tomato plant and my hibiscuses are flowering. Nobody tell them it’s January. Shh.
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Adam's Garden, Texas, 1930s
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Today's the last day of meteorological summer, so although we will stay hot here in Texas for some weeks to come, I feel like it's time to start posting the plants that got through the heat with flying colors. This is a young seed-grown Anacacho orchid tree (Bauhinia lunarioides), a species with very limited and patchy distribution from southwest Texas into Mexico. I grew it via the sophisticated technique of swiping seeds off a public landscaping tree and throwing them in this pot, which is an absolute mess. There's an agave and an incredibly spindly zizotes milkweed in here, the latter seedgrown ; there was a seedgrown scarlet muskflower in here too, though I haven't seen it in a bit. Rose 'Martha Gonzales' is sneaking into frame from an adjoining pot. All of these plants do exceptionally well in extreme heat and dry conditions (with periodic deep watering). Once we actually do cool down enough to transplant safely, I'll be taking them all out and repotting them less chaotically.
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Bridal Wreath Spread
A forest of white clusters spread out from this bridal wreath spiraea.
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