Today we're walking through my gardens where I'll point out what's growing in the extreme heat, sun and shade. I'll share some tips on having a beautiful garden with difficult growing conditions.
I LOVE when RU-vid recommends fellow Texas gardeners. I clicked and subscribed so fast because gardening here is a whole other beast than anywhere else. San Antonio here 🤠♥️ Beautiful tour! 🌻
I enjoyed this garden and narrator so much. I usually watch Linda Vater in Oklahoma for ideas for hot weather and dry conditions advice. Enjoyed a new perspective. Lovely garden.
We are in the third summer with no rain. Last summer I believed what I had read, namely that native plants don't need supplemental watering. This year I'm replacing the plants I lost and watering.
So thrilled to find you! I subscribed immediately! Your yard is a delight! You replied to every comment, answering every question and I read them all! Thank you so much for your help!
So beautiful and relaxing. I love how you incorporated stonework in to your yard, including the dry riverbeds. It’s been challenging for me to want to use natives because they always look so crispy and dry. Thanks for showing me it doesn’t have to be that way! I have the “Big Momma” variety of Turk’s Cap as a hedge along my back fence and the hummingbirds love it.
Everything is looking beautiful! I love the native butterfly garden. I love all the Craig's blue mist flower and the rest of the plants you planted there. I am going to find a sunny spot to add one, too 😊
Gorgeous landscape….back yard looks like a park! I’m in a rural setting outside Boerne and have so much trouble with the deer eating plants. I have to use a deer repellant spray on my red yucca blooms or they get devoured. As the drought goes on they start eating more of the deer resistant plants. I have Mexican bush sage and that along with rosemary are pretty much the only plants they reliably leave alone here. That sage isn’t evergreen…it dies to the ground every winter here and comes back in the spring. I finally found Gregg’s mist flower at a local nursery last fall and one plant is spreading and just full of butterflies. I have a fenced pollinator garden between two peach trees where I can have flowers, as well as pots on my raised patio. Even there, we had to put up a retractable gate because the deer would come up the steps at night and eat my plants. We did move out here for the wildlife so I’ve just had to adjust where I can.
Beautiful garden and a wonderfully informative tour! The names and growing heights of the plants are appreciated. I would love to see how you propagate and move your plants around, like the lambs ear.
Enjoyed your tour. My bff lives in Goliad, Texas . She moved to Texas over 15 years from Michigan. Took her a while to figure out a zone 9a from a 6a. 😂 She learned a lot from working at a nursery down there. Have a great day. 👩🏼🌾
Glad to find a central Texas channel. What is your watering schedule? I can barely keep up with my grass but would love to add flowers. Your garden is beautiful!
Oh gosh, I’m so glad that I found you! I’m in the San Antonio area and have been loving putting native plants into my garden. I’m jotting down notes of some of your plants that I’d like to incorporate into my garden. Thank you so much for sharing your beautiful garden.
Been watching your videos for a while and finally subscribed! You have impeccable taste. I have a teeny tiny, mostly shaded "garden" both in front and back, with deer, skunks, and armadillos eating everything out front, and deep dry shaded corners in the back. It is such a long process learning what will work in each area! Please keep with the Texas focus. I know each climate has it's own unique challenges, but I feel like south central Texas is tougher than most! I would love to see you tour more Texas home gardens! You could even request before-and-after pictures from Texas gardeners! I watch those videos from other gardening channels, but so many are from areas that get more rain and less heat. Keep up the amazing work! -From San Antonio
Thanks for the suggestions!! I agree that we need to stick with the problems we face in Central Texas! I'm currently lining up more Central Texas gardens to tour and video!
I love that raised bed where you have your zinnias. I’d love to know where to get one like that. Beautiful garden. I’m in Bastrop County so it’s great to see gardeners nearby and what you are growing.
I haven't seen Gregg's Mist Flower growing that short before. I see it 3-4' tall BUT I like this because it doesn't look overgrown. Do you cut back to that height? THANK you for doing a monthly video guide. I am SO glad I stumbled upon your sight yesterday. Just what I need to banish the doldrums of dead grass & plants this summer and get input from an experienced Texas native gardener with VIDEOS to guide me. THANK YOU! Keep up the awesome service you are providing!
My Gregg's mist seems to stay low on it's own. I don't trim it back until it freezes and goes dormant in Jan. or Feb. So glad you found me! Keep watching!
Just discovered your channel and subscribed. I live in Houston Tx and learning so much from you. I have most of the plants you have. Thank you so much. Blessings. 🤩
I realize you’re not trying to feature only native Texas plants, but it might be instructive to identify which ones are natives and which ones are adapted plants for all that you feature to educate your viewers more thoroughly. Enjoyed your garden tour. Perhaps you could consider eliminating the trailing lantana as it is an invasive species and use Lantana urticoides instead, (It’s the only native Lantana) Your label reads Henry Dahlberg, but you correctly identified it as Henry Duelberg. Dwarf Yaupon is an excellent substitute for Boxwood as it has more benefit for native insects and birds than Boxwood. Gregg’s Mistflower is also referred to as Blue Mistflower, not Purple Mistflower. NPSOT and most master gardeners recommend 2” of mulch rather than 3” in established gardens as the thicker mulch can reduce the germination of new seeds. I apologize for the “criticism”; I am not a native plant expert, just a native plant enthusiast. Your channel seems to attract quite a few viewers and it is important to give them accurate information so that is my intent in my comments.
Thank you for your helpful comments. I have no problem with anything you say. I'm always trying to improve my channel and information I give my viewers. Keep it up!
I just found your channel. Love your garden and that you're using many native plants. I like the variety of mulch in your back garden. Can you share the brand?
Can you let us know which way your house faces? I have raging sun west facing front and side in South facing so I am redoing the garden because some areas are way too hot. I’m in North Texas Dallas (hotter than you - I think)
I live near Lewisville Lake and the front of my house also gets the second half of the day, but also get powdery mildew so options are limited. These aren't natives but some that work for me are cannas with solid green leaves that were already here, autumn sage, daylillies, vinca, petunias, dusty miller, angelonia. The zinnias that Home Depot and Lowes sell seem to be the "Profusion" variety, though they're not labeled as such, and the white ones grow so full but don't get diseases. I'm pretty sure they're profusion because I've grown those from seed. I've been using IronTone the past couple of years when planting and that has helped stopped burning on most plants. Osmocote for blooms. Last year I put in drip irrigation and that was a game changer.
My back yard faces North, garage faces East. Front of house faces South. All very hot until it's shaded by trees. I use only the toughest native Texas plants with drip irrigation and lots of mulch to keep things alive.
Because I plant mostly native plants, they don't want a lot of improved soil. First I dig a nice hole, getting rid of lots of limestone rock, ( I have very rocky soil here) and then I add hand fulls of compost to each hole I dig for a new plant. I then add back the original native soil on top and then water the plant well. Twice a year I sprinkle a great organic fertilizer all over the beds and water well. I use Espoma Plant Tone over all the gardens according to the directions on the bag.
