Warm humid summer days stimulate flowering of many fragrant flowers especially plumeria, angel trumpets, orange jasmine, pikake, night blooming jasmine and ginger species. Returning residents and visitors to our islands frequently comment on how sweet our air smells compared to the mainland with the abundance of flowers in bloom now. Many ginger species may be…
Norman Winter Tribune News Service This year The Garden Guy went into the growing season with a twofold plan involving jumbo Heart to Heart caladium bulbs. Truly they have been among the stars of the hottest summer I can remember. My plan was that I would plant half the bulbs in situ. (I always wanted…
Before we get into gardening with the ornamental Mexican feather grass, some context will help to underscore the value of landscaping with grasses. Lubbock is in the center of the Llano Estacado. A history of this interesting land formation is found in the Handbook of Texas (tshaonline.org), the source for the following information. Ornamental grasses…
