Herself’s Houston Garden

This is another of many gingers I planted this spring. While it hasn’t yet gotten as large as the other gingers have, it wasted no time in producing flowers. Flowers are tiny on delicate stems that weep down.

Globba gingers usually peak at about 2′ in height. These are slow growing gingers.

Globba gingers want shade, not part shade, but shade.

Keep moist in the summer and dry in the winter.

These go dormant in the winter and reappear late spring.

Propagate by division in the spring.

Wow – not one of my books mentions this plant, all I have are some sparse notes from lectures. I’ll fill this out as I learn more.

I received an email from Buchanan’s they want you to know:

All is well — even without power!

Buchanan’s Native Plants will be open
for business starting Friday,
our usual hours, 9 to 6.
We’ll be happy to help you rebuild
your garden, order large trees and shrubs, or whatever you need.
We’re ready to make
special orders for you.

Phones are still out
so just come on in!
We’d love to see you!

And remember –
Fall is the ideal time to plant!

We spent today doing more clean up in teams with various neighbors.

But first I scored that most important of all items for storm cleanup, a gas powered chainsaw. It was the last one at Lowes.

We have everything except an enormous tree stump cut, chopped and stacked for the county to come fetch. I’m really hoping the tree stump will be done tomorrow.

The front garden is a total loss, the back not so bad, not so good either.

The electric will be out for about 3 weeks, yet another Entergy fiasco. If we move you can be sure it’ll be to a home on Centerpoint not Entergy power.

I check here when I can but net access is limited still so forgive me if I don’t answer emails just yet. Twitter is a better way to reach me now if you must.