Tag Archives: native and adapted plants and design
Square Foot Gardening & Companion Planting.
Planting veggie beds for the first time can be a challenge for the new gardeners trying to figure what to grow, when to grow and how you can fit all the goodies you want in your small space. One great strategy is to “Square foot garden”. This is exactly what it sounds like. You mark …
Thornless Blackberry (Rubus Ursinus)
Blackberries are not only delicious but good for you to. The Blackberry, a member of the rose family, is in fact not a true berry, it is botanically termed an aggregate fruit as it composed of small drupelets. The plant roots are perennial but produce biennial stems, this is best explained here, the old stems will die off and the new …
Wonderful Pomegranate
There are many pomegranates that do very well in Central Texas, but one of my personal favorites is the “Wonderful” pomegranate. This brightly flowering shrub is a prolific bloomer in the full Sun garden, it is drought tolerant and very low to no maintenance. The pomegranate is a delicious healthy fruit that requires a little …
Dill, Delicious as it is Beautiful!
I have made it my goal over the past several years to not only change my landscape to primarily edible plants, but to find the most interesting flowers from those plants to use in the perennial beds. I have always been organic, well “always” meaning as long as I have known better. I must admit …
Lisa’s “Plant Pick of the Day”, Mexican Bush Sage (Salvia Lucatha)
Mexican Bush Sage is one of my favorite Sun plants in the garden. Its flocculent texture and striking Purple and Lavender flower spikes make this plant a show piece, a butterfly and hummingbird attraction and best of all, it is drought tolerant and practically no maintenance. Hardy for zones 8-10 in even the worst soil …