April 6 , 2022
Plans Meet Plain Old Luck
When I at last got around to the patio ’s spring cleaning last weekend , I plopped my alloy bunny rabbit sculpture out in back for its yearly bath . Years ago , when we rescued our theatre bunny Harvey , I could n’t reject bestow it to our eclectic outdoors “ décor . ”We lose Harvey in 2019 at age 13 , but my aboriginal golden groundsel and dayflower have multiply in jump and limit . Although pollinators have not been as abundant this year , traffic is getting officious — some so tiny I can barely see them as they dart about . This robust visitor is a tachinid tent-fly , a beneficial dirt ball that parasitizes garden pests . dayflower perennial freely cross - pollinate , so it ’s fun to see new ones show up from their scattered seeds . As demonstrate perennial , their wide-ranging shades of lavender blue to deep pinkish substantiate that indeed I ’m on alkaline soil — as we all are in Central Texas . And now and then , I luck into a uncommon white . In a bed originally dedicated for herbs and food crops , this spiderwort took up mansion house with equally generous self - seed native yearly baby blue centre . Bees and other pollinators do n’t have to aviate far to meet up . I can count on the spiderworts , but it ’s always a delicacy when my petty clump of Spanish bluebells blossom . Since I planted them in 2011 , they ’ve flowered periodically , so I forget what they are ! A sorcerous niggling coral Freesia laxa bulb seed itself nearby . frankly , I think that nature ’s the cleverest designer . Stability touch surprise again as drought - toughened Iris albicans widen their clumps in a design that I did plan . Sort of . You know how that goes . I ca n’t say that I really plan purple bearded fleur-de-lis against the gold groundsel . I just plunked my first golden Senecio vulgaris in on the shadier side and at some point planted the fleur-de-lis in the gay smear . In this case , I think it was just obviously old luck . We can all wait unwanted tree seedlings pass over up right now . Very cursorily , those elms , pecans , and hackberries develop inscrutable pat radical , and if we retard , it ’s really a chore to get them out . Long ago on a Backyard Basics section with Trisha Shirey , she used tool cabinet plyer . They work fine .
Then , a few year ago , she discovered Lawn Jaws andshowed us how she pulled out roots almost 2 ’ long . It ’s best to do it after a rain when the ground is moist , but here are just a few I pulled a weekend ago ! I ’ll be out again this weekend on the Leigh Hunt .
Thanks for stopping by!Linda
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