Marshallia caespitosa
- Saturday, September 26, 2015
Plants grow to 8-18 inches in height, space them 3 inches apart.
photo is from the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center website.
http://www.wildflower.org/gallery/result.php?id_image=38888
Plants grow to 8-18 inches in height, space them 3 inches apart.
photo is from the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center website.
http://www.wildflower.org/gallery/result.php?id_image=38888
Here's a link that shows how to recycle pop bottles into mini greenhouses to propagate plants or grow seedlings:
As recommended by the AgriLife Extension center - click the following link.
(It has zoom capability in case it opens up too small for you to read.)
From the Royal Horticultural Society website. This is not usually something we have to deal with in Texas!!!!
Few garden plants will survive waterlogging or flooding. Prolonged periods of sitting in ground saturated with water causes yellow leaves, root rot and death. However, conditions can be improved using various techniques to promote drainage and prevent damage.
Soils become waterlogged when water builds up, unable to drain away. This leaves no air spaces in the saturated soil, and plant roots literally drown.
Short-lived flash floods after a downpour seldom harm most plants. It is prolonged, saturated soil that cause the most damage.
Symptoms of waterlogging are not easy to tell from other disorders but look for the following;
Some of the symptoms are easily confused with water stress (too little water). But in fact, a waterlogged plant actually is water stressed. This is because the roots are drowning and can not absorb any water or nutrients to move around the plant.
Excess water causes problems for plants in a number of ways;