Yes it is good, are you game for the Texoma roundup that Mitch is trying to set up for spring?
I met you there, remember? How long has it been?

Trois was there and brought catfish from his lake and cooked it for us, it was delicious, he was such a nice man.
I still have the Pride of Barbados from the seeds he sent me.

Ted, the sweetest guy was there too, so generous and loving, I sure have met a lot of wonderful people through Dave's.

O.K. Dave and all who might be interested, here is the list pf plants in our yard, it is long so I hope it works.

-- PLANTS FOUND IN THE FRONT YARD --

Flowers / Perennials --

Big Red Sage -- Salvia penstemonoides
Blackeyed Susan -- Rudbeckia hirta
Blackeyed Susan -- Rudbeckia fulgida
Blackfoot Daisy -- Melanpodium leucanthum
Brazos Penstemon -- Penstemon tenuis
Carolina Phlox -- Phlox carolina
Cedar Sage -- Salvia roemeriana
Century Plant -- Agave americana
Cholla Cactus -- Cylindropuntia imbricata
Common Sunflower -- Helianthus annuus
Downy Skullcap -- Scutellaria incana
Drummond's Aster -- Symphyotrichum drummondii
Eastern Bluemist -- Conoclinium coelestinum
Fall Obedient Plant -- Physostegia virginiana
Fragrant Mistflower -- Ageratina herbaceae
Frostweed -- Verbesina virginica
Golden Groundsel -- Packera obovata
Goldenrod -- Solidago canadensis
Heart-Leaf Skullcap -- Scutellaria ovata
Heath Aster -- Symphyotrichum ericoides
Indian Blanket -- Gaillardia multiceps
Lanceleaf Coreopsis -- Coreopsis laceolata
Louisiana Phlox -- Phlox divaricata
Lyre-Leaf Sage -- Salvia lyrata
Mealy Blue Sage -- Salvia farinacea
Mexican Primrose -- Oenothera speciosa
Pigeonberry -- Rivina humilis
Pitcher Sage -- Salvia azurea
Prairie Groundsel -- Packera plattensis
Prairie Phlox -- Phlox pilosa
Purple Coneflower -- Echinacea purpurea
Purple Fall Aster -- Symphyotrichum oblongifolium
Red Columbine -- Aquilegia canadensis
Red Yucca -- Hesperaloe parviflora
Rose Vervain -- Glandularia canadensis
Rough Agave -- Agave parryii ssp. parryii
Scarlet Penstemon -- Penstemon triflorus
Scarlet Sage -- Salvia coccinea
Self-Heal -- Prunella vulgaris
Showy Tick Trefoil -- Desmodium canadense
Spiderwort -- Tradescantia occidentalis
Swamp Milkweed -- Asclepias incarnata
Tall White Mistflower -- Ageratina altissima
Texas Betony -- Stackys coccinea
Texas Thistle -- Cercium texanum
Twist-Leaf Yucca -- Yucca rupicula
Western Blumist -- Conoclinium greggii
White Gaura -- Gaura lindheimeriana
White Yarrow -- Achillea millefollium
Wild Petunia -- Ruellia nudiflora
Wild Petunia -- Ruellia caroliniana
Wild Violet -- Viola missouriensis
Winecup -- Calirhoe involucrata
Woodland Sunflower -- Helianthus hirsutus
Woolly Ironweed -- Vernonia lindhiemerii
Yellow Columbine -- Aquilegia chrysantha
Zexmenia -- Wedelia hispida


-- Shrubs --

Agarita -- Mahonia trifoliolata
American Beautyberry -- Callicarpa americana
Autumn Sage -- Salvia greggii
Barbados Cherry -- Malpighia glabra
Black Dalea -- Dalea frutescens
Buttonbush -- Cephalanthus occidentalis
Coralberry -- Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
Dwarf Texas Sage -- Leucophyllum frutescens
Eastern Wahoo -- Eunymus autropurpureus
False Indigo -- Amorpha fritocosa
Flame Acanthus -- Anisacanthus quadrifidus var. wrightii
Fragrant Mimosa -- Mimosa borealis
Golden Dewdrop -- Duranta erecta
Kidneywood -- Eysenhardtia texana
Military Hibiscus -- Hibiscus laevis
Mountain Sage -- Salvia regla
Poverty Weed -- Baccaris neglecta
Rock Rose -- Pavonia lasiopetala
Skeleton-Leaf Goldeneye -- Viguiera stenoloba
Spineless Prickly Pear -- Opuntia ellisiana
St. Andrews Cross -- Hypericum hypericoides
Texas Sage -- Leucophyllum frutescens
Turk's Cap -- Malvabiscus arboreus var. drummondii
Virginia Sweetspire -- Itea virginica
White Mistflower -- Ageratina havanense
Winged Loosestrife -- Lythrum alatum var. lanceolatum
Yellow Bells -- Tecoma stans


-- Trees --

Arizona Ash -- Fraxinus velutina
Desert Willow -- Chilopsis linearis
Dogwood -- Cornus florida
Eve's Necklace -- Styphonolobium affine
Paw Paw -- Asimina triloba
Red Buckeye -- Aesculus pavia
Rusty Blackhaw -- Viburnum rudifulum
Sassafras -- Sassafras albidum
Sweetgum -- Liquidamar styraciflua
Texas Mountain Laurel -- Sophora secundiflora
Texas Redbud -- Cercis canadensis var. texensis
Toothache Tree -- Zanthoxylum hirsutum
White Redbud -- Cercis canadensis
Yaupon Holly -- Ilex vomitoria


-- ADITIONAL PLANTS FOUND ON THE SLOPE --

-- Flowers / Perennials --

American Germander -- Teucrium canadensis
Beebrush -- Alloysia gratissima
Coralbean -- Erythrina herbacea
Illiniois Bundleflower -- Desmanthus illinoiensis
Mexican Hat -- Ratibida columnifera
Spanish Dagger -- Yucca treculeana
Tall Obedient Plant -- Physostegia digitalis
Texas Star Hibiscus -- Hibiscus coccineus
White Prickly Poppy -- Argemony albiflora
Willow-Leaf Aster -- Symphyotrichum praeltum

-- Vines --

Carolina Jessamine -- Gelsemium sempervirens
Crossvine -- Bignonia capreolata


-- ADDITIONAL PLANTS IN THE BACK YARD --

-- Flowers / Perennials --

American Pokeweed -- Phytolaca americana
Butterfly Milkweed -- Asclepias tuberosa
Chile Pequin -- Capsicum annuum
Clammyweed -- Polanisia dodecandra
Common Primrose -- Oenothera biennis
Downy Lobelia -- Lobelia puberula
Four-nerve Daisy -- Tetranuris scaposa
Gayfeather -- Liatris mucronata
Giant Coneflower -- Rudbeckia maxima
Inland Sea-oats -- Chasmanthium latifolium
Jerusalem Artichoke -- Helianthus tuberosus
Lace Cactus -- Echinocereus reichenbachii
Lizard's Tail -- Saururus cernuus
Maximillian Sunflower -- Helianthus maximiliani
Texas Milkweed -- Asclepias texana
Texas Vervain -- Verbena halei
White Avens -- Geum canadense
Whorled Milkweed -- Asclepia verticillata

-- Shrubs --

American Strawberry Bush -- Euonymus americanus
Elderberry -- Sambucus canadensis
Green Texas Sage -- Leucophyllum frutescens
Texas Lntana -- Lantana horrida

-- Trees --

American Holly -- Ilex opaca
Carolina Cherry Laurel -- Prunus caroliniana
Escarpment Black Cherry -- Prunus serotina var. eximia
Goldenball Leadtree -- Luceana retusa
Mexican Buckeye -- Ungnadia speciosa
Mexican Plum -- Prnus mexicana
Pecan -- Carya illinoiensis
Possum Haw -- Ilex decidua
Roughleaf Dogwood -- Cornus drummondii
Smooth Sumac -- Rhus glabra

-- Vines --

Carolina Snailseed -- Cocculus carolinius
Honeyvine Milkweed -- Cynanchum leave
Pipevine -- Aristolochia macrophylla
Purple Clematis -- Clematis pitcheri
Purple Passionflower -- Passiflora incarnata
Snapdragon Vine -- Maurandella antirrhiniflora
Swamp Leatherflower -- Clematis crispa
Wooly Passionflower -- Passiflora foetida
Yellow Passionflower -- Passiflora lutea

Ohhh... your yard is gorgeous, Josephine!!

Thank you Marylyn, good to talk to you.

What a stunning list..

Wow! I hope there's a way to get your plant list in a spot where it won't get buried in a thread. That's quite an impressive collection.

Josephine, that list is a wowser. Thank you for sharing it.


Debra

Thank you Everyone, I am a native plant collector allright, and enjoy propagating and showing them.
I hope more people will get excited about them and give them a try, it is a very rewarding hobby.
Josephine.

You do get people addicted once they see how stunning they can be.

Wow Josephine! I see you found some sunlight for your Carolina Phlox. Your love of natives is infectious. Have you written an article that describes this transformation?

Mitch, I do hope other people get addicted too, I know of some.
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Hello Anna, no I haven't written an article about the transformation, I am too busy right now with three gardens ans the Wildscape greenhouse to take care of, but maybe in the future.

Josephine.

Great list.

How old is the Paw Paw tree? Is it bearing fruit yet? Did you plant it in the shade or full sun? It's my understanding that they need shade when young but then when full size they need the fun sun.

There are a few due to you, and I hope about 6 years of kids in DISD that maybe be also - at least they got to see your site and the AMAZING database set up there. I know you won me over and in time I won Christi over... so I guess it keeps marching forward.

How are the gardens you are helping with? The name fails me but they looked amazing back a few years ago - I cannot think what they must look like now!

Remember the duranta you planted at the church there that got HUGE... well I planted one here last fall from seed - it now stands 10 FT wide! in an almost perfect circle... makes me wish I had planted it in a great round flower bed and not the rectangle it is in!

Josephine, I remember that roundup well. ...make's me miss Trois. I just read the Texoma Roundup thread. Next Spring will be a little crazy as I will be starting an internship at an accounting firm. Unless the roundup is after April 15th, I don't see how I could make it.

I have kind of second guessed my future career choice in public accounting several times. I am a gardener who loves spring and will be working 60 hour weeks through much of March and April.

Trois was one of those special people that made Gardening great.

Thank you Dave, the Paw Paw tree is about four years old from a seedling I got at one of the ETRU's.
It is in partial shade at the Fielder house butterfly garden, I doubt that it will ever make fruit, but I planted it as butterfly larval food anyway.
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Mitch, I am so glad that the word has spread, I am doing my best to keep all the gardens looking good, but this heat makes it very difficult even if you can water, I just got back from doing the Fielder house garden, it took me three hours to get it done.
We don't sprinkle and the garden is on a hill, I think the hill must be all sand because the water just disappears as soon as you pour it on, so it takes a lot of patience.
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Staci, I am sorry you won't be able to make the Texoma RU, it is such a lovely place.

I know they are stunning gardens. The water might be slow but it is well worth it, I am not strict like you are in the fact I include here a lot of plants from the old homesteads and Iris... lots of Iris. I do have a wonderful pond this year with loads of native water lilies... they really need thinned out so the Round up - here some some water lilies!

There are several stands of PawPaw here in the area, but they are all in fairly shady thickets, and only at 20 or so feet do they get full sun.. I know they make fruit but the little creatures get them long before I got there. Will be checking on them - I do not have the right thick shade like they are starting in right now here to even try - but one day I will!

Getting here late to the party, but since I have had a tour of the transformed front yard, I guess I am ahead actually! LOL! I hope many of you will be able to see the yard in person because the pictures Josephine posted pale in comparison to being there.
Good to see all of you here.

Good to see so many of my friends here already! Sheila, have you thought about bringing your butterfly gardening cubit over here to ATP? I'd love to see hummingbirds included too. Today our huge flame acanthus was the center of attraction for numerous hummers. I've not done well keeping plants for the butterflies going this summer.

I did send Dave a tmail yesterday....we will see. I am sure bfs will show up on here somewhere by someone soon. Hummers are active here too since we are one of the few people that are watering our yards in the neighborhood, and have a waterfall at the pond we have all types of birds this year.