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I have this and it is great in this Texas heat. I plan to get more. Would love to see a landscape garden tour. Your 2 minute videos are not enough for this Texas plant lover. You have so much knowledge to share. I enjoy your channel so much!
I mention them both because they are practically interchangeable, but this is a Santa Rosa. The Santa Rosa has an orange/yellow flesh with a sweet and tart flavor and the Methley has a red flesh that is more sweet.
LOVE it 💚 ... Flowering from Spring to Frost is a WINNER in my book, too! Just so happened, our local nursery currently is having this at the moment and I almost brought home one UNTIL many said rabbits actually love to devour this plants' leaves (our yard has plenty of wild rabbit destroying our plants). OH NO !!! I wish Englemann would be rabbit resistant 😩
Those bunnies are so cute but they can be hard to control. If you have a fence of any kind you can run chicken wire along the bottom of the fence and the ground about a foot tall and into the yard and they won’t be able to dig in. It works for armadillos too.
@@LisaLaPaso ~ Thank you for the suggestion! I just planted mine (FINALLY!) last weekend, and I secure it with a 1.5 feet diameter x 1.5 ft. high chicken wire fence around it. I didn't dig the wire into the soil but put medium-size rocks around its perimeter to prevent any digging. So far the bunnies stay away from it ☺ ... Hopefully it will grow as healthy + beautiful as yours 💚! (PS: Armadillos? OMy, I cannot imagine if I had to deal with them, too! 😷 )
Love this!! Hoping to get one for my garden for some privacy next time my privet hedge. Love the color 😍 great video! Hoping I can buy one already grown to get a head start!
If you’re in Texas you might check with the Antique Rose Emporium. If you’re in Austin, I would check with the Natural Gardener, or Barton Springs nursery in the winter months which is when you shud plant them.
Datura is a gorgeous looking plant. This specific specimen I think is Daturs Innoxia, which is probably my favourite of the Datura genus (not including the brugmansias)
@@LisaLaPaso I agree! I would really love to grow innoxia or a brugmansia but I have two cats which are likely to be intrigued by it. Not a risk worth taking :(
Thank you soooooooo much. I'm in South Africa. First ate them in New Zealand .and just discovered I have one in my garden. Do you say you can eat the leaves. If so how to prepare it for eating? .
Thanks for sharing your knowledge and enthusiasm about smoke tree. I am in 9b Northern Ca.and have a young Royal purple in a large container. It is beautiful, deep color with pink veins. Do you know if they can stand up to all day summer sun, or does it need hot afternoon protection?
I'm in central Texas and mine can take a beating from our afternoon sun. I've been really impressed by how drought tolerant and heat loving it has been.
I don’t actually prune my tomato plants. The only time I do any cutting of the leaves is when I’m planting them. I removed all of the lower leaves on my tomato plants with the exception of the very top and I bury the plant as deeply as I possibly can with just those top leaves exposed. I get a ton of fruit every year and have been doing this method for the last 30 years and have never found the need to prune my tomato plants because of course they need it as when he leaves as possible for photosynthesis and protection from the heat.
I planted my 4-1 plum tree 2 years ago. It formed small fruits this year but they are falling one by one. I am new to gardening. I am not any that’s happening. Please advise. Thank you so much for your time.
I’ve actually seen them at the HEB! if you’re in Austin, check the Natural Gardener, Red Barn Nursery or even some of the big box store that still have rose may have one,
Take as much root ball as you can when you dig them up and use some root activator and liquid seaweed in the hole as directed. I would use the seaweed once a week and water them often until they no longer show signs of drooping from transplant. Do it soon so it’s not too hot out and once they look good enough start acclimating them to watering every few days and then to once a week when needed for the first year.
I just added a couple to my front yard and they're drying up 😮...maybe I'm over watering? The flowers have shriveled up. But I keep watering thinking it needs it to get established 🤷🏻♀️
I would but or order a moisture meter. It’s a probe that you place into the soil to see what the moisture reading is below the surface. It will give a reading from low, moist to wet. Amazon will probably get you one by tomorrow. In the meantime put your fingers deep into the soil within a few inches of the roots and see what it feels like. Many times a plant that seems dry is actually over watered and we have had some decent rain that may be adversely affecting it with additional watering.
In my experience with Damianita, it doesn’t like too much water, even when getting established. I’ve had the same issue and originally thought they needed more water, but realized I was overwatering them. Hope that helps!
I found some by a ditch and dug up the plant and brought it home and put it in my yard. so hopefully the seeds will spread in my yard. I think they are beautiful. And there were many many plants still out in the open lot.
Attract as many birds and lizards as you can and they will take care of most of them. I also think because there was so much sun in that landscape that it helped with control as well. Not a lot of dark places to hide.
when u say cut back, how much? in Dallas where its been getting cold, take it all the way down? or take the main branches back to where they start, thanks
After the last freeze, scratch the stems and see if there is any green. If there is, cut back to where the green ends. If there is no green beneath the surface, cut back to about 6” and they will return once the temps get into the consistent 80’s or so.
Hi Lizz, I’m in Austin too and Lily’s do beautifully here. Look for Asiatic Lilies, Daylily, blood lily and even Easter lilies do well in a protected area.
I like mixing the seeds with raisins, peanuts, chocolate chips and sunflower kernels for a trail snack . After a few handfuls you can go on long trips and never leave your house or property.
Final height is ~8ft tall-ish but ….How many *INCHES per year (on average) do these grow if you limb them up into a tree form? I need a FAST grower in a spot in my TEXAS zone 8b/9a garden and considering adding this.
They will grow that tall in one established season. Be mindful they they dies back to the ground in the winter but make a quick comeback. I wouldn’t call them a tree form, they will grow tall if trained but they need to have support. Otherwise, they’ll stay low and wide.
My drift rose died! I'm really bad at keeping things alive though I try...again I live in New Mexico, but plenty of roses thrive around here, so I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong
I’m so sorry to hear that. Drift roses are good for zones 4 -11 so if you’re in that hardiness zone they will grow there. Roses need decent drainage and they don’t like being buried too deep. It is also important to plant them at the right time of year which is late winter early spring the latest.use lots of compost and organic fertilizer to get the, going in the early summer then don’t fertilize when it’s hot out. They also don’t like to have their leaves wet from irrigation or to stay wet for long periods of time. If there was a fungal issue that can be a problem for replanting, but if it just it’s died you could certainly try again.
I am planning to plant this in a pot on my terrace here in Kolkata, India. We do not have hummingbirds here but we have sunbirds. They visit my terrace to feed on hibiscus. This flower blooms only at night, so how is it going to attract sunbirds during the day ?
It opens at night and mine will stay open until the hot sun hits it. I don’t know that birds are particularly interested but bees and hummingbird moths love it!
As far as i know this can only be reproduced by sticks due to the fact that it's a hibryd species that doesn't drop seeds. You got a Nice sample here Lisa hope it's still marvelous.
I live in zone 7 and it often gets warm early, the fruit trees bloom, then we have a late frost and kills my plums...which in did again this year. It's now the end of August and my methley is blooming like crazy. I'm wondering if I'll have fall plums. 😊
You are most like are in the wrong hardiness zone for this tree. this would mean you get too many or not enough chill hours which makes the tree bloom at the wrong time.
I'm in Alabama, zone 7. It does spectacularly some years. We will have warm weather and it blooms profusely, then we get a cold snap of maybe two or three days and it kills the young plums. Just one of them thanks, I guess. One year I harvested many 8qt. bowls of plums. Everyone stopped by for plums too.😊 They are good.
Here in Texas we’ve had some really strange weather anomalies and it’s greatly affected the fruit production as well. Is it so big you couldn’t cover it with a frost cloth?
