June 26 , 2008
From the producer: 10 March 2025
I must enjoin you that I ’m thrilled with my experiment , Dicliptera suberecta . I was worried about the grayish leaves in my clay ( albeit composted ) stain , but the family line at the nursery said it handled lowering wet just fine – in grammatical case it ever rain down again . It ’s filling out nicely in all the bed . This one in the crepe bed gets filtered sun with a few hot fire during the day . It express joy at the heat !
Others get intense morning sun . I know that it can take cold , too , since I planted the first ones just day before we get our coldest freeze . It set them back a act as new 4″ transplants , but not for longsighted . One common name for it is hummingbird plant , a testament to its flowers . There were two on them last night !
The bouncing bet ( Saponaria officinalis ) in the crape bed is blooming , too . I ’ve had this one for old age , through drouth , drown , and freeze down . It does n’t get unrestrained when you divide it , though I would n’t do it now .
What ’s bizarre is that a few larkspur are still bloom ! These self - seed guy wire are in the front room windowpane , with purple heart ( Setcresea ) and fall asters beyond . By the fashion , a psyche ’s up that all free fall - only bloomers get their last clipping in the next two weeks .
My latest oddment is ferns , thanks to Laura Joseph , our featured gardener , and our interview guest , plantsman / designer Patrick Kirwin . Last fall we taped Laura ’s benignant garden at her historic home . She ’s now an internationally acclaimed fern expert , a plant passion that began in puerility . In containers and in the primer coat , she has magnificent specimens , from staghorns to natives to exotics I would never have recognized as ferns . But she does n’t stop with ferns , and as a sovereign plant experimenter , at every turn you run into surprises of color and texture . Laura ’s also a long - terminus military volunteer and garden cabaret fellow member atZilker Botanical Garden . of late she spearheadedThe Garden Club of Austin’snew fern garden at Zilker to prepare and entice novices like me .
Then , while shooting one of Patrick ’s designs last spring , he speak with heat about ferns , including the many native that we can rise . That day , we come up with the idea for his section with Tom , focusing in the main on native ferns , include ones for Dominicus , and how to give them a originative blueprint statement .
On that shoot with Patrick , it was really an alien , East India holly fern , that hooked me . When I literally ran into one at the nursery that weekend , I figured I ’d take my first step into fern - ville . I set out just one for the patio bed to see if our relationship was conformable . So far , we ’re still together !
For Patrick ’s interview with Tom , I went to a glasshouse to take over an Autumn fern , one on Patrick ’s list , and cease up buy it . I engraft it in the terrace bed where the cycad used to be . It was over 100 ° when I set it , but it did n’t give care . Already I love it .
Patrick and Laura may have created a new fern fan , and with you , too , I hope . Patrick ’s list will be on our World Wide Web internet site . you’re able to also select John Dromgoole ’s picture , for the list he latterly award as a fern lover .
As the heat goes on , I hope this week ’s program will inspire you , as it did Tom and me , for a few fresh thought . Until next week , Linda
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