October 30 , 2008
From the producer: 15 March 2025
When I started gardening , I learned a tidy sum of facts from books , but from Scott Ogden ’s , I really fall in dearest with plants . I was so distressed about doing the right thing , textbook style , that I was afraid to make fault . Turning the Page of his playscript , I take up to see nicety of lighting , playfulness , and adventure . Along with fancy , I soak up the facts gain by his hands - on experience . When I ’m explore young plant or bulbs , I always check his books before I dig any holes , since my latest love must get along with heavy clay soil . I can stand only so many garden heartbreak . I ’m sure the plant thank me , too .
Years later , I run across a kindred spirit in his married woman , Lauren Springer Ogden . On the national and international shot , Lauren ’s known for her sensory garden designs and books , includingPassionate Gardening : Good Advice for Challenging Climates , the first of my Lauren collection . In just a few pageboy , I felt colligate to a gardener who sleep together plants , and publish as if she were penning her thoughts to her best friend .
In their first book together , Plant - Driven Design , they combine their experience and poetical writing in a resource that is rich in ism , inspiration , and fact .
This week on CTG , meetLauren and Scottin Tom ’s interview and through our video shoot at their Austin plate last spring . you may also enchant their garden video recording on theCTGsite . Like all others , we archive it under Video after its programme week .
In my garden , I move my bamboo medallion ( Chameadora macrospadix ) , about 15 feet down the rental fence bed from its original site . Its first berries ever were n’t ruby yet , but I took this picture in case the move disturb them .
I fell in passion with this plant the second I saw it a few years ago . I moved it because its neighboring ‘ Spring Bouquet ’ genus Viburnum and aromatic sumach had fill out so well that it was difficult to see its bamboo - corresponding bow and floppy leaf . Now , it ’s at the other goal of the fencing between the Texas pistache and the crape we started from a cut . In summertime , it gets lots of shade , with bits of filtered sun , and more sunlight in wintertime . In its fresh placement , you may see the tip of the cycad I motivate earlier this year . It does n’t seem great , so I ’m think of replacing it with a dioon to keep the bamboo palm companionship .
Update : the Satsuma Orange River I moved a few weeks ago from container to reason is so healthy that it ’s attracting swallowtails to deliver their issue . I did n’t photograph the eggs I ’ve seen ( tiny orange dots ) but here ’s some larva from two calendar week ago .
Here ’s one hombre a calendar week later .
No longer is the plant chlorotic , and since it ’s growing new leaves like dotty , I do n’t beware sacrificing a few for next butterflies . But once the sun comes out , these caterpillars move tight ! Just as I ’d figure out the best angle and oppose the sun , off they ’d go .
Around the nook , here ’s the Lindheimer muhly in the front layer .
I ’m so glad it made it , since it ’s one of our favorite dusk show - offs . It ’s the first affair we notice when we round the plication down our street . But it half - moulder after summertime 2007 ’s rain . Late wintertime , when I disregard it back , I pull off the dead poppycock , too , and dumped everything on the compost pile to feather a few nest . ( The birds find it fast ! ) . Its back one-half looks like a chain saw make it , but it hung in there , not as glorious as in retiring days , but still set to gather our admiration .
By the way , I ’m thinking of order a bamboo muhly in that blank blank space against the brick nook . Any ideas ? Every week I shift candidates . . .it ’s time to make a determination !
In back , I could n’t resist another shot of theSalvia reglaand plumbago under the Chinese pistache . It ’s such a big mint to me because I thought they ’d NEVER occupy out . It wo n’t be bare , either , when they immobilise back ; various incandescent lamp are already jumping out to take over in a few month .
In the crepe bed , here ’s the Mexican passel marigold against the artemesia andDicliptera suberecta . Probably needs to move to a sunnier spot this outpouring .
On Amelia ’s fencing , the mutabilis rose bloom again . This guy cable needs a lot of shaping this February .
On the shed , the wax Cecile Brunner is popping a few bloom .
Over the years , I ’ve seen this garden through every possible weather condition situation , and somehow , it keep on going . Mainly , I ’m in love with my plants , even when they ’re scruffy , and I thank people like Scott and Lauren who remind me that that ’s okay .
ultimately , if you have n’t had a chance yet to take our sketch ( select the release on the sidebar ) on how to meliorate our WWW internet site to dish you , we ’d sure enough love your remark ! Until next workweek , Linda
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