June 3, 2024 Cottage Butterfly Garden Tour in Houston Texas zone 9A/B
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- June 3, 2024 Cottage Butterfly Garden Tour in Houston Texas zone 9A/B
@JosTXGarden
The TH-cam channel I couldn’t remember is The Plant Ninja - Texas Gardener! Sorry, plant ninja friend!😊
Thank you for sharing your knowledge, there is not enough Houstonians you tubers to help the beginners. Looking forward to learn how you plant your carrots and fennel. Enjoy your beautiful garden.
Thank you! I’m going to do a little video on planting carrots! The short version is simply to buy different kinds of carrots at the grocery store in October and just plant them! 😊😊🤣
Oh, fennel is easy to grow from seed. Sometimes I’ll buy some at the nursery from the herb section if I’m feeling impatient.🤣
I agree! We have such hot summers! I love the cone flowers! West of Meyerland here.
Beautiful natural looking garden, Its the bees knees.
Aw, thank you!!
I truly enjoy your garden walks. You are teaching me so much about which native Texas native plants I should try to grow in my own Texas garden. Thanks for sharing your beautiful garden.
Oh, thank you so much! 😊😊
Jo! Thanks for the shout out! I sort of feel like my skullcap is disappointing since the hailstorm but it’s coming back! Your garden is stunning and I always find new plants to consider. You’ve really got such a great layout. I enjoy seeing the central area from different vantage points. Those pentas are such a lovely sea of pink. I’m fascinated by that rattlesnake master. Also I’m always impressed by your pronunciation of botanical names😊🙌
Aw, thank you so much!😊 After that crazy hail, I can’t believe how good everything looks in your garden!
LOL! Mrs. Doubtfire on the hose!!! I gotta admit that it does look cozy all coiled up so perfectly! - And I love seeing that fatty of a caterpillar! - Paul Voth daylily gonna be on my list! Haha! Winner winner chicken dinner! Yasss, it is! -Oh, Jo! You are so good at growing coneflowers!!! I hope that you will turn your front garden into a field of coneflowers and carrots! Wouldn’t that be spectacular and such a showstopper?!? You would have ALL the butterflies!!! And I’m sure that people would come from all over to see it, too! - Yes, I also would like for you to tell us when you plant zee carrots! I want to do it a try and in the ground, no less. Yours gives me hope! - And the dara!!! See! You have got your maroon and it’s tall and dotting the garden so beautifully! - Yay about your globe basil and Thai basil! They are gonna be favorites with the tiny flower lovers! - DANG! That giant fennel is the BEST fennel that I have ever seen!!! Ever! It looks like the grand finale of a 4th of July fireworks show! - Awww! What a sweet story about Mrs. Doubtfire! I wanna see the photo of her with her babies!!! - That white swan coneflower looks like a badminton birdie! How fun! - Oh! The mystic spires salvia is a smart choice for that spot and what a bargain, too!!! I love that it will be an ocean, waves of salvia for the garden! - I do love that rattlesnake master! Texas has ALL the cool native plants!!! - Oh, yasss, your millet will do well! - LOL about not being jealous or bitter about the ninja’s awesome skullcap!!! - Yay for the hyacinth bean vines bringing you tall, dark, and handsome to the garden!!! And they are so healthy, too! Everything is lovely, lovely, lovely!!!!! Your garden looks like a cool, lush English garden. You have accomplished an amazing feat AND fed and housed butterflies along the way! Thank you for the super fun romp through your garden!!!You are always informative and funny and inspiring!!!!!!!
Awesome video, I can’t believe how beautiful the rattlesnake master plant looks! The pink pentas with the black/blue salvia, love the contrast. Thank you!
Thank you so much! Oooh! I’m loving that rattlesnake master!
Enjoy you rambling through the garden. We had lots of wind with the storms last night. Got a delivery today with garden supplies that were truly needed to prop so many plant back up right or just supported those that needed a little help. Everything in my little gardens is getting such a late start. Which is ok because I will walk out one morning soon with everything bursting in colors. I will be so excitedly happy. Have a great day!
Everything will be so happy with the rain you got!
Have a great day! Thanks for watching! 😊😊
Thanks for the tour! the Plant Ninja also has thriving Blackfoot daisies! i tried them again this year and they have perished again. I guess a massive hackberry tree limb falling on them didn't help but still most of the other plants survived (A little squashed but still alive). i am letting my carrots grow hoping for caterpillars. They are 6 ft tall now (the ones that haven flopped in all the storms). no swallowtail larva yet. maybe it takes time for them to find it. I had one eastern swallow tail caterpillar on a golden alexander a month or so ago. i have better luck with gulf fritillaries on passion vine and pipeline swallowtail on pipe vine.
Oh goodness! The Plant Ninja has beautiful Blackfoot daisies!
How fun that your carrots are so huge! Yayyy! The butterflies will come! I have had good luck with gulf frits as well, but my pipevine cats keep getting eaten when they’re tiny. 🥺
Beautiful as always! Those carrots are wild! I’m always just amazed. I HAVE to get some pretty parasol next spring. I LOVE it. Such pretty bloom form.
Thank you!!
Ooooooh! I LOVE pretty parasols! I was obsessed with them for a few years! I found them at Buchanan’s in the Heights- they only occasionally have them, but they are pretty easy to find online.
Thank you for such a lovely video of your June garden. Please advise us when you get the carrots from the grocery store in October. That way we can start ours too. It will be my first time starting carrots. Blessings. ❤
And does carrot need 6 hours of sun or can it do with 5?
Great idea!! I’ll definitely mention it! I’m thinking I’ll do a short video about it!
Hmmmm. The ones I have that are doing the best are in full sun. The further back they go towards the shade, the smaller and floppier they are, but I put several varieties out there, so maybe I just happened to plant the floppy ones in the shadier part? Who knows? I’d tend towards 6 hours if possible!
@@JosTXGarden Very good. Looking forward to your short video. Thank you Jo.🤩
Another wonderful garden tour! Is your huge hot pink penta a special variety or just lovin your Houston weather? I’m going crazy here near Dallas, so much rain I can’t get out in the yard.😩. I’m in a power wheelchair so it will be awhile for me to do some much needed work in the yard. Definitely going to be a “survival of the fittest” plants this year. Loved hearing Mrs. D’s story.❤️
Thank you! Yep, that penta is a particular variety that bought accidentally one year at a nursery, having no idea that there were any pentas except the smaller variety. The lighter pink ones I have are “pink remembrance penta (Penta lanceolata)” I’m afraid I don’t have the variety name for the darker pink ones.
❤ wonderful
Aw, thank you! 😊
I am 9B in Florida, and have been for over 30 years. It’s so strange that they moved you to 9B with your low temps. I am 65 and it’s only gotten into the teens one year in the 1980s.
It’s rediculous, I’m not changing a thing!
I know! It was really weird! I noticed one of the TH-camrs that I follow who is also in Houston has started just saying that she is in “zone nine“. That might make a lot more sense, as far as me explaining what zone I am in LOL!
Hi Jo. I am totally smitten with your garden. When can I plant the carrots from the grocery store, and do you plant the colored carrots? Also, do you pull the carrot when it is done blooming or just let it be? I am truly interested in this. I garden in Southeast FL, zone 10A, so we can grow quite a few of the same plants. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experiences. Mrs. Doubtfire is a very lucky kitty.
Oh, thank you so much! I’m glad you are enjoying my videos!
Yep, I buy all different kinds of carrots! Basically anything and everything they’ve got! I tend to put three different kinds in each spot. I have figured out that if I just jam my long narrow shovel (my dad called it a sharp shooter, so that’s what I call it, but who knows what they’re really called at the hardware store!!) as deep as I can and wiggle it back and forth, I can get a few carrots down in that slot in the ground without actually digging a big HOLE. I get some with and without greenery still attached. It doesn’t seem to make a difference. Just plant it so the tippy top peeks out. I put one of those chicken wire cloches from gardeners supply over them to keep the squirrels away! One year I put them out in October, the squirrels ate alll of them, so I re-planted in November *with the cloches added*, and they grew just fine. This past year, I broke my leg (and other foot) in early November, and my precious sweet husband planted them for me, but not until December! When it gets hot and they poop out, I just pull them up. By then my perennials are definitely big enough to need that space! I do check very carefully to look for swallowtail caterpillars before I chuck them in my compost pile. I can always move them to my fennel, which lasts all year and often into the next. They have survived freezes to 16° in winter. I think sometimes I have put a handful of dry leaves on top to protect any greenery, but I’m not sure that’s really necessary.
You’re making me think I need to make a little video for this! 🤣
I’ll have to do it like a cooking show: plant some now, explaining how /what I do, and then, just like the finished pie that’s already in the oven for the audience, I can turn around and say, “aaaand here’s what it looks like in bloom!” 😉😉😉
@@JosTXGarden Thank you so much! I think it would make a wonderful video. I am certainly going to do this - have put a note to myself in my calendar for October. I cannot wait.
I hope you know, Jo, that I am growing gomphrena just because you grow it. I finally got most of my seeds going last week... I've still got a few more to go.
I am also doing a shorter, more compact zinnia variety as well. Growing them in containers... The standard zinnias just want to get too big.
Yay for gomphrena! Who knew it was so tough? I love that you are growing gomphrena because of me! There are definitely things allllll over my garden that I am growing because fellow TH-camrs are growing them !!!
Yeah, tall zinnias are not practical, really!
@@JosTXGarden for zinnias, I'm trialing the Persian Carpet mix from Johnny's. It is in my color scheme (yellows, oranges, reds).
I live in Houston and I am trying to start plants for the pollinators.
Yay!! It’s so much fun to watch the plants grow and the pollinators come! 💕
@@JosTXGarden where do you like to buy plants? I like Buchanan's and Joshua's but would love more places to go that don't spray their plants.
Oh my goodness, just letting you know if you ever think of putting thai basil in the ground it gets absolutely huge and on very little care. I’m still finding seedlings two years later. Also, why did you say it’s late in the game for monarchs? Are they not supposed to be here right now?
I’m loving the Thai basil so much! Maybe I should put it in the ground!! Yes, monarchs migrate from Mexico to Canada and pass through Texas in the spring, but their migration through TX should be over by now, as they have moved north. Any remaining monarchs are what are called “residents”. It’s thought to be largely due to non-native milkweed becoming prevalent in nurseries. Tropical milkweed/Asclepias curvassica is easy to grow and very pretty, so it sells well. However, it does not die to the ground when it gets hot, like many native varieties (they comes back from the ground). So…. they are not migrating like they should, and it also makes the prevalence of the parasite called Ophryocystis elektroscirrha (OE) much much worse. Ok, I’m realizing that it can be wayyyy better explained with this short video from the Wild Floridian TH-cam channel. I’ve been meaning to recommend it on my channel forever! Here’s the link: 😊😊😊
th-cam.com/video/x-q77nxwIT0/w-d-xo.htmlsi=Dvm8pGvTHbh94JLP
Could you tell me again the name of the purple looking blooms you said was in carrot family You said ammi daura. Is that all i would need to buy one. Second question do you cut carrots in chunks and plant root end I was amazed how tall and how pretty blooms were Love your kind of garden
I'm not sure what she did, but I left whole carrots in the fridge for a couple months...forgotten in the back of the veggie drawer (in plastic bag). They grew roots, and I planted them. There's probably a faster way, but that's how I started my carrot flowers.
Hi! Thank you so much!
The tall purple is Ammi Majus “Dara”. The seeds are easy to find!
As for the carrots, I bury them whole, with the green tops sticking out, or at least the top barely sticking out or flush with the soil level, if you buy the ones that are already trimmed off - the green will re-grow. I plant them in October or November (or even December when I broke my leg and didn’t get them planted as planned!) and just wait until spring- they overwinter fine for me in Houston, then really start to fill in and grow in the spring.
I’m really just “undoing” what the farmer did. He pulled it out before it bloomed and sold it to the grocery store. I’m buying it at the grocery store and re-planting it so it has the chance to bloom! 🤣
I had 5 caterpillars and all are gone 😢
Oh no! It’s so depressing when that happens. I had 20 tiny pipevine caterpillars one day, all gone two days later. 🥺 So sorry you lost yours. More will come! Hang in there!