I went out and hoed up the cedar elm seedlings in the area I'll be planting up 10 Dwarf Plumbago Groundcover plants this week. Due to be delivered in a couple days. https://www.monrovia.com/dwarf-plumbago.html. Haven't had much luck with the Cape Plumbago in our severe Texas summer heat so thought I'd try this cultivar and see how it likes my soil and planting setting. I love true blue plants and it should dress up my rock-edged, (now) cemented path where it is destined to go. I plan to plant it along the left edge in this photo (hostas have been moved elsewhere). The shade of the sprawling red oak tree will protect it from Texas' scorching summer sun. This spot gets morning sun around 9am-12pm and again late afternoon around 2-6pm.
Yes, it is a substantial tree. Actually, it's two tree trunks 3' apart. The trunk on the left is a red oak I would have preferred to have been planted in my FRONT garden. The smaller tree on the right we think is an elm of some sort. So I'll have to hope the Dwarf Plumbago has shallow roots and can "compete" with all the tree roots. Shade is so valuable in Texas summer heat we rarely consider taking out a shade tree. We did remove the 20' Japanese Ligustrum down in the dark corner along the fenceline this year. Much more sun on the end of this path now since this photo was taken. I no longer get 10 million ligustrum seedlings off the tons of blue berries it dropped each year. I won't miss THAT!
@PeggyTX - wow, the blue of that plumbago is stunning! Fingers crossed it will do well for you in that border. @SophieK - your tulips looks lovely. London is always a little bit ahead of us here in Suffolk; mine should be out next week. I planted a LOT so hoping for a good show.
Up and out in the garden very early. Planted out about 50 foxgloves, they are quite weedy things and I don't have high hopes for them. Dug up a similar amount of verbena that grew in the bottom of the hedge and spread them around the beds.
@GWRS, We also took two large limbs off the larger Red Oak in February just 2 weeks before our severe once-in-a-lifetime snow/ice storm hit. We're getting much more sunlight into the garden now. Those two branches were 8-9" in diameter and were overhanging our guest bedroom roof. That fact worried us greatly over the 5 years we've lived here. We said a little prayer the double limb removal was quite timely, else we might have been eating some costly roof repairs. Our across-the-lane neighbors had a limb crash through their bedroom roof some years back in the middle of the night right. Scary stuff that.
No gardening today for me but managed to get the lawns mowed and edged yesterday. What a difference it makes. The tulips are adding a great splash of colour to the borders now. It’s amazing how they have stood up to that extremely cold night we had this week. It’s decimated our Magnolia tree which was looking spectacular. Such a shame.
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https://www.monrovia.com/dwarf-plumbago.html. Haven't had much luck with the Cape Plumbago in our severe Texas summer heat so thought I'd try this cultivar and see how it likes my soil and planting setting. I love true blue plants and it should dress up my rock-edged, (now) cemented path where it is destined to go. I plan to plant it along the left edge in this photo (hostas have been moved elsewhere). The shade of the sprawling red oak tree will protect it from Texas' scorching summer sun. This spot gets morning sun around 9am-12pm and again late afternoon around 2-6pm.