Avoid over-watering perennials and annuals in hot, humid conditions.Water fruit and nut trees deeply to avoid fruit drop-off.Prune herbs often to encourage new growth.Keep a garden journal to note bloom times and insect habits.A brief shower doesn’t mean it penetrated to the roots. Even if rain comes, check the soil to 3” deep to make sure their roots have water. Store in jars, envelopes, or paper bags (not plastic) to plant next spring. Collect seeds from summer blooming plants.Solarize areas where you want to kill grass or weed pests for future planting.Leave clippings on the lawn to naturally fertilize. Don’t remove more than 1/3 of the top at a time. Keep the roots cool by leaving the grass long. Keep the lawn mower setting up to high.Remove damaged leaves to the trash (not the compost pile). Aphids and other insects can create sooty mold on plants, a fungus that develops from their secretions (honeydew).Aphids and other insects can plague crape myrtles and other trees in summer (“raining trees” are due to the honeydew secretions).Be sure to get the undersides of the leaves. It’s easy to spray them off with a hard blast of water. Fertilize every few weeks through growing season. Citrus with high nitrogen fertilizer like Citrus-tone.Foliar feed flowers and vegetables with liquid seaweed.Last chance to cut back fall blooming perennials (like aster) that are setting buds.No need to apply pruning paint to other trees.OKAY to prune red oaks and live oaks until February.Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Vegetable Planting Guides (Central Texas).Okra, eggplant, peppers, corn sweet potato slips, pumpkin, summer & winter squash, watermelon.Like any vine, it will take a few years to take over! It blooms on old wood so prune soon after flowering to shape and encourage new growth and later flowers. Tubular flowers appear spring and sometimes in fall to attract hummingbirds and butterflies.Ĭonsidered a semi-evergreen, crossvine keeps its leaves through winter, only dropping them in spring, just before putting on new ones. Crossvine is a member of the Bignonia family (Bignoniaceae). The common name, crossvine, is derived from the shape of the pith in the vine’s stem when viewed in cross-section.
It needs little water once it’s established. Crossvine ( Bignonia capreolata L.) Crossvine, occasionally called trumpet flower, is a beautiful native, semi-evergreen, climbing, woody, vine. Plant in sun to part shade in just about any soil. ‘Tangerine Beauty’ is a specific variety that puts on a fabulous spring show followed by sporadic flowering the rest of the year. It is native to Texas and the Southeastern U.S. It can grow up to 50’ feet long, so is perfect to cover a fence, sturdy trellis or arbor. Cultivar ‘Tangerine Beauty’ is orange with yellow center.Ĭrossvine does grow quite vigorously, but it doesn’t sneak over into your entire landscape and try to take over the neighborhood like trumpet vine. The original native is golden yellow with magenta center. Crossvine is a woody, native vine that is tamely aggressive compared to its cousin, trumpet vine ( Campsis radicans).
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