Creepy Crawlers
With warm temperatures settling in, gardeners can expect to see swarming insects appearing more regularly. This is a common springtime - and sometimes fall - occurrence in which reproductives emerge from their colonies and take flight in search of a mate. It most often happens on warm days after significant rainfall, though some species, such as Formosan termites, may swarm at night.
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Focus on a Native: Sycamore
The American Sycamore, Platanus occidentalis, is a large tree native to much of the eastern and central United States including eastern Texas and the Texas Hill Country. As a heavy water user, it grows best along stream beds and in bottomlands, and in moist sandy loam or silty clay.
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Chives (Allium schoenoprasum)
The species name chives comes the French word cive, taken from the Latin word cepa or onion. They are a perennial herb and the smallest of the edible onion species native to Europe, Asia, and North America.
Both onion chives, typically called chives (a.schoenoprasum) and garlic chives (a. tuberosum) are easy to grow and widely used as a culinary herb.
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Tips from the Garden
No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring. ~Samuel Johnson~
Despite our current drought, the sunshine and warming weather will bring the flowers, the colors and the scents of springtime. The beautiful dry weather allows for a walk around the neighborhood and in our many parks to catch what we can of this lovely time. Working in our gardens can be a wonderful and beneficial for our body and spirit.
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Veggies, Q&As, and Native Plants
Happenings and Harvests in the Veggie Garden
A weekly log of veggie garden activities
Native Plant Gallery
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