Herself’s Houston Garden

Gardening for fun and wildlife at the edge of Houston’s piney woods

Squirrels

ljmacphee | January 28, 2007

Not rain, not sleet, not cold, not hot pepper sprinkled in your garden, not chicken wire over your bulbs shall keep the squirrels from your bulbs. Even being stalked all day long by a large black cat shall not keep squirrels from your yard.
Ever the bane of gardeners, I’ve tried all the remedies found [...]

and more sunshine!

ljmacphee | January 27, 2007

That’s two days in a row we’ve had sun and some what mild temperatures.
I was able to get out into the back yard gardens and do a few things. I planted two of the Cymbidiums that had been out there on the porch waiting to be stuck in the ground and planted an Elephant [...]

Minature (pygmy) Date Palm ( Phoenix roebelenii )

ljmacphee | January 26, 2007

This palm will grow up to 10′ and is a slow grower ( ~6″/year ) making it a great potted plant as well.
It will grow as far north as zone 9 and there are stories of it surviving at occasional temperatures into the mid to low 20s once it has been established. But [...]