Herself’s Houston Garden

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

Summer time is here

ljmacphee | June 22, 2007

*Turns out this little guy is a downy woodpecker. They or one of there cousins makea a ring of holes in your pine tree so the sap leaks out and keeps predators from climbing the tree and getting into their nests.
Do you think it’s been raining enough? Everything is soggy and the [...]

Drimiopsis kirkii Giant Squill aka Lily of Vally

ljmacphee | June 20, 2007

This is another new acquisition from the Mercer summer sale.
It prefers filtered light and will stay about 6″-8″ tall. Watering needs are average.
It puts out long stems of small white flowers.
This plant is native to Africa. It is still so unusual here I’m having a difficult time finding information on it. I [...]

*&^%$ squirrels

ljmacphee | June 18, 2007

I have one Bird Feeder that has gone two years with out the squirrels getting in to the feed at all.
So I was feeling my oats and purchased a nice copper one at Smith and Hawkins, thinking maybe these squirrels weren’t so bad. I hung it from a tree, added a squirrel baffle [...]