Skip to content

Herself's Plants

Saving the world, one plant at a time

Swale garden pulling water away during Harvey

February 28, 2018February 28, 2018

Share this:

  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Google

Like this:

Like Loading...

Related

Post navigation

Previous: Previous post: Swale Garden
  • Home
  • About
  • Contact

Search

Popular today

  • Grow your orchids in glass containers
    Grow your orchids in glass containers
  • Swale Garden
    Swale Garden
  • Dominican Oregano
    Dominican Oregano
  • Colmanara Orchids
    Colmanara Orchids

Sections

  • Aquarium gardens (2)
  • Birds (103)
  • Bog rain swale gardens (4)
  • Bromeliad (9)
  • Butterflies, Bees, Hummingbirds (50)
  • Carnivorous plants (32)
  • Creepy crawlies (45)
  • Critters (5)
  • Evolution of plants (52)
  • Ferns (17)
  • Flower arranging (9)
  • Food plants (11)
  • Fungi (3)
  • General Information (72)
  • Gingers (7)
  • Herbs (11)
  • House plants (90)
  • Houston Wild Flowers (25)
  • Hydroponics (1)
  • In the news (132)
  • Local happenings (37)
  • Nepenthes (17)
  • Orchids (45)
  • Other gardens (11)
  • Plant nutrition (16)
  • Plant problems (51)
  • Plant science (82)
  • Plant toxins (7)
  • Plants in Houston (199)
  • Propagation (8)
  • Shrubs and Trees (59)
  • Specific plant information (296)
  • Succulent (33)
  • Terrariums and Dish Gardens (8)
  • The Secret Lives of Plants (40)
  • Vines (20)

Recent

  • Cotton Seeds Spring to Life on the Far Side of the Moon
  • The Plants are listening, and they are talking back
  • Bracidostele (bcd) orchids
  • Annual National Garden Survey has been released
  • Urban Harvest Fruit and Nut Tree Sale Feb 9, 2019
  • Master Gardeners Fruit and Nut Tree Sale Jan. 26, 2019
  • Elowan: A plant robot hybrid
  • Texas Orange Cap Mushrooms aka (Amanita jacksonii)
  • Scare your plants to produce stronger offspring
  • Lycoris radiata ( Red Spider Lily, Hurricane Lily, Corpse Flower )
  • Pseuderanthemum variable
  • Acer macrophyllum aka Big Leaf Maple aka Oregon Maple
  • Justicia chrysostephana “Orange Flame”
  • Building a better mosquito trap
  • Dandelion vortexes
  • Vanilla planifolia
  • Button Bush (Cephalanthus occidentalis)
  • Propagation by seed
  • Sedum morganianum Burrito aka Donkey Tail
  • Woodlands Landscaping Solutions Sept 29 2018
  • Fall 2018 Montgomery County Master Gardener Sale
  • Lepismium Cruciforme Rhipsalis
  • Manfreda maculosa aka Texas Tuberose aka Deciduous Agave
  • 2018 Fall Bromeliad Sale
  • Houston Garden Club Bulb Mart 2018
  • Papaver rhoeas aka Poppies
  • Love vine sucks life from wasps, leaving only mummies
  • Callistemon ‘Little John’ aka Little John Dwarf Bottlebrush
  • Ligustrum japonicum aka Privet
  • Lonicera japonica ‘Halliana’ aka Japanese Honeysuckle Vine
  • Aeonium arboretum atropurpureum “zwartkop”
  • Cercis canadensis aka Eastern Red Bud Tree aka Judas tree
  • Royal Society of Open Science publishes Terraforming the Biosphere
  • Sap-sucking bugs manipulate their host plants’ metabolism for their own benefit
  • Salvia lyrata aka Lyre-leaved Sage
  • Species, Variety, Cultivar
  • Seeds: Species, F1, F2, F3
  • Crowdfunded fern genomes published in Nature Plants
  • Test tube plants
  • Pink Shell Prunus aka Ornamental Cherry
  • Heliamphora ( Sun Pitchers )
  • Antarctic fungi found to be effective against citrus canker
  • An orchid matches its scent rhythm to the locals
  • Echinacea purpurea aka Purple Coneflower
  • Yes, some plants do use camouflage
  • Plants gain and ditch the ability to fix nitrogen
  • Rudbeckia hirta aka Black Eyed Susan
  • Plants pass climate data onto children
  • Invading lizards from Cuba
  • Can plants think?

Help

See a plant you like? On rare occasions I have some extra plants available for sale.

Have a question about a plant?

Just drop a note through the contact  page

New Site

HerselfsHouseplants.com and HerselfsHoustonGarden.com have been combined and relocated to here.

Lost? Try Search, or scroll through the list of Sections, Recent, and Popular posts

Blog at WordPress.com. Herself's Plants
Cancel
%d bloggers like this: