August 27 , 2009
From Linda: 5 April 2025
I was n’t going to put up this week , because what can I say ? For all of us , usually body of water - effective plants are up against a challenge they have n’t faced since 1925 .
Well , not quite yet .
I decided to send , because I just have to ask : are you with me to snap off the record ? gardener are goal - compositor . Heck , if we ’ve already been this miserable , and our flora , our agricultural arena , our lake , and our water provision are endangered , let ’s at least make 2009 a record - typographer .
On Wednesday , at 66 days of over 100º , we tie with 1923 .
As of today , we ’re now three day away from breaking the 1925 platter . If we ’ve gone this far and do n’t even break a record , what was the period of all this ?
Really , in your garden journal or blog , do you desire to write , “ Well , almost broke the 1925 record . Missed it by one Clarence Shepard Day Jr. . ”
This illustrates what heat does to my mastermind . I ’m also profoundly monish , as many of you are . So at this point , we either make it a game , a test of our strength , and a challenge to our creativity , or we flavourless give up . New gardeners or new Central Texas gardeners out there : do n’t give up !
My redaction computer recently choke . I edited one show in the “ big edit ” suite , but it ’s booked up a lot , and I ’ve baffle two gardens to redact before my “ staycation . ” My boss , Phil Smith , a wizardry in many ways , including computers , is work heavily to puzzle out this mystery . His tenacity is a good moral for us gardeners . I hate to jinx it , but it looks like he ’s got it secure ! Now if he could just institute some rain . . .
As bad as thing are , I ’m so grateful it ’s not 1925 , when daily life in the heat was way more miserable than it is now . Patch Work bloggerin Wimberley write a rattling tribute to a adult male we should all idolize .
I ’m also spat my Guy who are still with me . Do n’t know how many will be around in a calendar month , but this week , the Tawny day lily was up and at ’em every twenty-four hour period . I was too discouraged to bring out the camera , but this kind of industry should be reward .
While I had the camera , I had to acclaim theHamelia patens , too , quick to fire a few hummingbird in migration .
Update : industrial plant ID on viewer ’s ground orchid still blooming . I was concerned about this one , so broadcast to expertScott Ogden .
As always , he solved the mystery . ( By the way , he and Lauren will be on CTG this October ; I ’ll let you know when it ’s up ) .
From Scott : Among many interesting alien plant now being offered to Austinites are hybrid terrestrial orchids of the genus Spathoglottis as see in thistissue culture lab . These are cheap , easy to raise flora for a balmy mood like Hawaii or Florida ( and maybe in shelter part of Houston ) but they are not in any way broad of drouth , frost , or uttermost heat , so in no way make naturalistic perennials for Austin . Unfortunately faculty at the box storage confuse these warm evergreen plant “ ground orchid ” ( which are also Asiatic ) with the moth-eaten - sturdy deciduous Bletilla species of temperate China — I have several times seen them mislabeled as such at the stores .
Super drouth - resistant idea coming your way on CTG next weekend for the premiere of our fall season ( also online , if you miss the broadcast ) !
Hang in there until next week , Linda
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