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Native Texas Nursery: April 2011
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Thoughts, photos, and updates from Native Texas Nursery. Thursday, April 21, 2011. It’s spring time, and looking out across the nursery I can see frothy waves of fresh green, spiced with yellow, orange and red flowers. Apparently Robin Williams once said “Spring is nature’s way of saying “Let’s Party! As the new leaves popping out from their dark parent branches gently assault my eyeballs, I totally get what Robin Williams was saying. And then there’s something like Bicolor Sage. It has a pow. Plumbago i...
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Native Texas Nursery: Oh those names!
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Thoughts, photos, and updates from Native Texas Nursery. Friday, March 16, 2012. Plant names are largely latin, and latin seems to be, for most people, a language of strange, dark magic. You plant nerds know what I mean, right? You can walk down the street and mutter something about Buxus japonica. And people around you will start crossing themselves and giving you plenty of space. Well, names have meanings, and maybe we all instinctively know that and are a little awed or skeptical of it. There are gene...
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Native Texas Nursery: February 2011
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Thoughts, photos, and updates from Native Texas Nursery. Thursday, February 17, 2011. A Tale of Two Roses. There’s a picture I first saw probably eighteen years ago, and it has stuck in my memory ever since. After some internet searching, I found the picture again and tacked it to the wall here at the nursery, where it stayed for about a month, which seems to be the time limit for any picture to stay tacked up there. Martha Gonzales stands next to ‘Martha Gonzales’. This is no nonsense. Pam Puryear and J...
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Native Texas Nursery: March 2011
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Thoughts, photos, and updates from Native Texas Nursery. Friday, March 18, 2011. Go, go, go! No time for a blog this week! We have trees going to Dallas, Frog Fruit going to San Antonio, Blackfoot Daisies going to Rockport. Here comes the San Antonio run. Walking down the driveway gets bit dicey this time of the year. You're apt to get splatted on the front of a delivery truck. And there it goes. Links to this post. Friday, March 4, 2011. There’s a whole world of ‘em. Sod has its place. Not that there&#...
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Native Texas Nursery: December 2011
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Thoughts, photos, and updates from Native Texas Nursery. Thursday, December 22, 2011. Greenhouses I Have Loved. Pulling your coat tighter around you just makes the wind mad, and it blows the rain directly into your face. Is it even rain any more, or is it ice at this point? Poinsettias in Ellison's Greenhouse, 1982. Greenhouse have an arched roof for a very good reason. This also demonstrates the incredible elasticity of (relatively) cheap plastic. And how it wasn’t. The last two sections were just tempo...
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Native Texas Nursery: October 2011
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Thoughts, photos, and updates from Native Texas Nursery. Tuesday, October 25, 2011. Rocktober Festival of Decorative Gourds and Exuberant Flowers. Whuh wha… huh? It’s not 128 degrees anymore? I remember sometime back in May thinking ‘hmm, is this going to be one of those terrible summers? And then it was like Manny Pacquiao tapped me on the shoulder and when I turned around- ka-POW! Okay, all right, calm down, it’s over. There, feel better? And the whole season kicks off with fat sausages, dark beers, pe...
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Native Texas Nursery: July 2011
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Thoughts, photos, and updates from Native Texas Nursery. Friday, July 15, 2011. The Dead Cajun Tour. My wife’s mom’s family is from Louisiana, and that means absolutely everything you would think it would mean. It means her Granny always has some gumbo or etouffee going in the kitchen. It means that while the family sits around the table eating. Oh yeah, cher, you know, his brother used to live next door to the woman who used to sew the covers for the pews of the church. We don’t actually know who ...
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Native Texas Nursery: March 2012
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Thoughts, photos, and updates from Native Texas Nursery. Friday, March 16, 2012. Plant names are largely latin, and latin seems to be, for most people, a language of strange, dark magic. You plant nerds know what I mean, right? You can walk down the street and mutter something about Buxus japonica. And people around you will start crossing themselves and giving you plenty of space. Well, names have meanings, and maybe we all instinctively know that and are a little awed or skeptical of it. There are gene...
