Chaste Tree and Plant Links

When giving away plants from my garden, I am often asked what to do with them.  Below are some tip links to growing plants I have success with in North Texas.

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How to Grow and Care for Chaste Tree - will grow just about anywhere, unfortunately is reseeds easily but fortunately mulching a large area around the tree or mowing over the new shoots often will kill the baby trees.  Is deciduous so loses foliage over winter and looks dead, so just wait for it to sprout again, when newly spriting is best time to fertilize with Tree and Shrub Protect and Feed (on Amazon).

Planting and Dividing Bearded Iris Corms - easiest to plant and grow!

How to Grow Elephant Ears - the giant version is easy grow and less fuss than you might think.  If growing in the ground, leave dead foliage over the winter and cut off after no longer chance of frost, it will have mushy top but it will dry out and then produce new foliage. If growing in pots, move inside house or garage for winter, digging out of pot is ok but not required.

Edible Parts of Turk's Cap Plant - quick spreading summer blooming plant with fall berries that taste like firm plums, this plant requires some sun to bloom and regular watering to prevent leaf wilting.

Flowering Groundcover Oxalis - spreads quickly in sun or shade.

How to Grow 4'O'Clocks - nice bushy plant with red, yellow, pink, or white flowers that are open late in the day through early morning, seeds can be bought in most stores in the spring for annual growth or where plants grow as perennials digging and moving tuber root can help them fill-in empty spaces.  

Dividing and Planting Daylilies - another easy plant and great mixed with iris as they bloom after iris stops blooming. 

How to Grow and Care for Night Salvia/Sage - spreads quickly via seeds and runner roots so it can be invasive, however it is easilu pulled up if it grows where unwanted.  Consider for a wild garden or to keep in containers.

Sharing and Planting Milk and Wine Crinum Lilies - big plant with big blooms!

How to Grow Mexican Petunia (Tall Ruella) - this is a drought tolerant flower once it gets started, the more sun it gets the blooms you get summer through fall .  The standard tall version of Ruella is easy to grow and spreads like wildflowers. The shorter dwarf  Ruella version makes a great border edging plant, however it can spread outside the border as everywhere a flower drops it will plant a seed to start another tiny plant, so if you see the slender dark leaves coming up - pull it up easily while it is still small.  Most Ruella loves the sun and has thin, long, shiny leaves.  However there is also a groundcover version with fuzzy leaves that likes to grow under shade trees so it does not spread as quickly, plus a bush version (which looks similar to the potato bush popular in Texas) that is popular in California.