Herself’s Houston Garden

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

Silver dollar gumaka Argyle Apple ( Eucalyptus cinerea )

ljmacphee | July 23, 2007

Tiny looking isn’t it? Well it was when I planted it and for the first year. It has really taken off this past month. I picked this eucalyptus up at the Mercer March Mart. This picture is from then. The eucalyputus has grown a couple of inches in the [...]

The pine nuts are ripe

ljmacphee | July 20, 2007

We’re getting sunshine some days and rain other days. The plants are doing better with some sun.
My elephant ears were so beaten up in the last rainstorm they fell over. I’m thinking they want a new home anyhow. I staked them up until I decide where to put them. The mother-in-laws [...]

Bats

ljmacphee | July 18, 2007

I know I wrote a piece on bats not to far back, but I attended a talk on bats from the Texas Dept of Parks and Wildlife and it was too interesting not to cover.
Bats are of the order Chiroptera. There are two branches: megachiroptera and microchiroptera. In Texas we have only microchiroptera [...]