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Gazergirlstar said:
oh yea i love to see them, they are not very popular here but i do see them from time to time, what all kind of plants do grow well for you ? my main struggle is that we have clay soil so i always have to add to it before i plant in the ground
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Gazergirlstar said:
friend , where are you today
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LoL I got totally sidetracked by your question and had to do a long write-up.... 🤣🤣🤣 Start reading while I admire your new plants 😁
 
Esperanza (Tecoma stans), Hibiscus (hardy & tropical), Plumbago, Duranta, Lantana, and Perennial Salvias are all popular blooming/landscaping plants/shrubs in our area and crepe myrtles are probably the #1 blooming tree with Vitex probably second.

Pride of Barbados (Caesalpinia pulcherrima) have become very popular in the area, a row of those in bloom is a traffic stopper!

Oleander are often used in commercial landscaping and some residential. Plumeria are frequently spotted in yards but you have to protect it really well from a freeze if they're in ground (sometimes that's still not enough to save them).

Citrus trees are the most common fruit tree. Most fruit trees won't grow here because of our lack of cold dormancy time. There are a couple of peach varieties that do okay in our area.

Some people xeri-scape their yards, ditching lawn/flower beds/shrubs and replacing with rocks, cacti, and drought tolerant plants like desert sage.

We grow cool weather annuals (pansy, violas, stocks, etc) during the late fall thru spring when the temperature is more moderate, then grow heat tolerant annuals (portulaca, zinnia, sages, vinca, pentas etc) when the furnace is full blast again.

Raised beds are popular here. Anyone that plants garden beds usually have to amend the clay crap LoL. We have coastal gumbo clay here in the area and high alkaline ph both soil and water. Being coastal also means fairly high salt content in the area. (LoL, I won't even start on the humidity) Our climate is considered subtropical (Z9) but that's just a nice way of saying it's damn hot most of the year.

The fun thing about Texas is we have a huge range of climates and soils. Our area is considered coastal plains. If I go a couple hundred miles NE toward Houston area, it's totally different- acidic red soil, more rainfall - pines, magnolias, and azalea 😍 everywhere. Go NW instead and you run into limestone rocks, caliche soil, and post cedar. So while in theory, my climate may be similar to Houston, azaleas won't grow well here unless you constantly baby them with an acidifier. And there are lots of perennials that simply cannot tolerate our prolonged extreme summer temps, I like to say they melt down here.

LoL, sorry, sometimes I tend to go overboard haha, information overload, did that answer your question? Didn't want you to think nothing grows here, altho with the prolonged drought we're currently in, it's starting to look pretty barren in the area. Do you want to hear about area crops or the native species? 😁 (hint on native species, most everything likes to stab, poke, or sting ya).
 
oh wow , you do have some good options though ! i would love to be able to get fresh citrus off the tree omg so yummy , and lol not the stinging plants but sure tell me some :) , i was getting worried about you too and yea see the poor heat stress on the purple ones :( but i got them for 2 dollars and original price was 7.98 so thats a deal for me to give them some TLC
 
GreenJay said:
Really pretty! About how big do the columbines get? Love the red columbine and I saw dianthus, we have those 😉.
Nice sparrow pic!
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the poor little thing was just trying to eat some food and my yard kitty was sneaking up on it and scared it away , i laughed at him and told him thats what he gets for being mean (we give him fresh food and water every day ) but they cant help instincts i guess. i think the columbines get 12 to 18 inches tall and wide
 
Gazergirlstar said:
oh wow , you do have some good options though ! i would love to be able to get fresh citrus off the tree omg so yummy , and lol not the stinging plants but sure tell me some :) , i was getting worried about you too and yea see the poor heat stress on the purple ones :( but i got them for 2 dollars and original price was 7.98 so thats a deal for me to give them some TLC
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Never turn down a bargain plant LoL especially if some water and a bit of cutting back will save it.

Haha, talk about bargains, went to tsc other day, they were trying to get rid of their overabundance of rapidly growing white leghorn chicks $1 each 😲. Yeah no thanks, not even if you paid me the dollar 🤣.
 
Gazergirlstar said:
the poor little thing was just trying to eat some food and my yard kitty was sneaking up on it and scared it away , i laughed at him and told him thats what he gets for being mean (we give him fresh food and water every day ) but they cant help instincts i guess. i think the columbines get 12 to 18 inches tall and wide
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Yeah, cats do that 😸
That's gonna be so pretty with all those columbines growing together and blooming 😍.
 
GreenJay said:
Never turn down a bargain plant LoL especially if some water and a bit of cutting back will save it.

Haha, talk about bargains, went to tsc other day, they were trying to get rid of their overabundance of rapidly growing white leghorn chicks $1 each 😲. Yeah no thanks, not even if you paid me the dollar 🤣.
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right i feel so bad for leghorns and cornish cross, they live such short lives
 

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