Herself’s Houston Garden

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

Bark Lice

ljmacphee | September 10, 2007

I received an email forwarded from GardenLine ( which has no webpage I could locate ) saying not to worry about the webs appearing on your trees.
I noticed them last year, they seem to like my yaupons. In the morning you go out to the garden and find your tree has been covered with [...]

Moving blogs and plants

ljmacphee | September 7, 2007

As some of you have noticed, I’ve moved. It was time to leave Blogger, I needed more sophisticated blogging software and a website that wouldn’t flake out around the 20th or so of each month. It wasn’t easy. I had six blogs to move and anything that could go wrong did. [...]

Pineapple ( Ananas comosus )

ljmacphee | September 5, 2007

Pineapples can easily grow outside here in Houston. After you’ve cut up a pineapple for serving, trim the remaining fruit away from the bottom of the leaves. Leave it sit on your counter a couple of days to dry. Otherwise the bit of fruit left on the bottom will mold.
Then just stick [...]