Skip to primary navigation Skip to main content Skip to primary sidebar Skip to footer We are open Monday - Sunday from 9am- 6pm. Happy Gardening! Fall veggies are in. Don't miss out on a fall harvest! Learn more! Grow them in large containers around the porch, patio or deck, or plant in fertile, well-drained soil in the tropical-style garden. Amend heavy, poorly drained soil with the addition of 3 to 4 inches of organic matter and till to a depth of 8 to 10 inches. While preparing the soil, incorporate 2 pounds of a slow-release, fertilizer per square feet of planting area.
Dig the planting hole two to three times as large as the root ball and plant at the same depth it is growing in the container. Feed container-grown plants with a diluted water-soluble or Host agro fertilizer every other week, or use controlled-release granules according to the formula recommendation. Keep in mind that daily watering and high temperatures usually mean fertilizing more often. Feed those plants in the landscape every four to six weeks with light applications of fertilizer.
Remove seedpods as they form to keep flowers producing, or save a few seeds for planting indoors next winter. They are also easy to propagate from cuttings, and the smaller plants are easier to over-winter. Grow under tall banana trees or upright elephant ears. Gift Cards. Texas Gardening. No blooms, just tall growth on esperanza - suggestions?
Email Save Comment 6. Featured Answer. Gardener 13 years ago. Like 1 Save. Sort by: Oldest. Newest Oldest. Mine won't bloom until August but I'm further north than you. Like Save.
This is why I love this plant. Related Discussions Yard suggestions Please! Hey Galleria, are you still there? Relax about the flooding, that is Mother Nature telling you that all is well and the lake is being regenerated for another year. Your trouble is that you are surrounded by too much beauty - you are spoiled - face it.
My serious suggestion is to limit your view of the lake and make it more interesting when it is not wide open. Envision this. At each corner of your property and inward for a ways, you build two raised beds say ' high. They are built to look just like seawalls. You know, vertical railroad tie-like 8x8s with a horizontal 2x12 just below the top, all a bleached gray - you know the look.
One bed at each side but not symmetrical or equal. The same height and construction, but one at one side with one large tree and a small tree in it and one at the other side with two or three trees in it, deep-rooted trees, that will thrive in the raised bed.
You then view the ground-level activity at the lake from the house, only through the gap in between, and the trees add a filter to all the activity on the lake and beyond. Much more interesting.
Adds a little more interest or mystery to the view that is otherwise wide open. Too much beauty. It get about 4' tall Q.
Could it be tall campanula? I have the darn thins that spread everywhere and after weeding out all but a dinner plat of circles I found 4 hosta that were under and being choked out. In my town there are two or three independent landscape designers that many people use. They usually charge an hourly fee. Judging from the natural habitat of the West Texas esperanza, this plant would prefer garden sites with full sun and good drainage.
It is drought-tolerant. We rarely water our esperanza bushes. Fall blooms in Big Bend National Park. Esperanza is not cold tolerant in the Hill Country and north. The bushes in our yard die back completely every winter, but they always send up new foliage in the spring. They seem to grow slowly at first, but begin to add foliage rapidly as the temperature gets hotter.
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