Central Texas Garden Tour September 2024

Join me on a tour of my Zone 8b garden in central Texas in late summer! I'll show you some of my favorite Texas native plants and share tips for gardening in this region. We've just come out of our hot Texas summer and finally have dropped below triple digits.
In this video, there are lots of Texas natives and well adaptive plants including: autumn sage, zexmenia,texas lantana, skullcap, American beautyberry, white yarrow, whale’s tongue agave, desert willow, goldenball leadtree, gomphrena, Mexican mint marigold, and redbud trees. In my vegetable garden I have recently sewn marketmore cucumbers, squash, and I’m getting close to harvesting sweet potatoes.
Redbud trees:
Texas redbud(Cercis canadensis L. var. texensis)
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Forest Pansy(Cercis Canadensis)
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[@JudyTyler-yc7om]

I really enjoy your channel.Thanks for sharing your garden jouneys!

[@theplantninja-texasgardener]

I so appreciate your kind comment and that you enjoy the channel! Thanks for sharing in the journey with me💗

[@HoustonKeith72]

I love gomphrena. A great discovery for me this year.

[@theplantninja-texasgardener]

Same, it’s my first year with gomphrena and it has exceeded my expectations😊

[@ramonsita625]

Always informative and inspirational! Thank you so much for sharing!!!

[@theplantninja-texasgardener]

So glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for taking the time to say so😊

[@bubbanichols6902]

Love the T-shirt!!!!

[@theplantninja-texasgardener]

What’s up Joel! PROVIDERS representing on this thread(Laura also jumped on)! Thanks for watching my friend💗

[@dreamsandthingz.]

I love Beauty Berries!! So gorgeous ❤

[@theplantninja-texasgardener]

Thanks for stopping by Pertrice! I’m really enjoying this plant. Curious if y’all are making anything with the berries?

[@susannebarnhart1322]

Everything looks really great !🍂Happy Fall🍁

[@theplantninja-texasgardener]

Thanks mom!!

[@laurawang9289]

Looking great!

[@theplantninja-texasgardener]

Laura I so appreciate your support! PROVIDERS!!

[@HoustonKeith72]

Great video! Thank you!

[@theplantninja-texasgardener]

So glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching😊

[@New-Hat-Gardening]

Second spring is real ❤

[@theplantninja-texasgardener]

Almost as exciting as actual spring 😝

[@luisreviews6412]

Fall is my favorite, as soon as those temps start dropping the plants know it and start putting on a show.

[@theplantninja-texasgardener]

It’s a nice change of pace from July and august. I always have to restrain my desire to buy all the plants. 😝

[@corinabecerra953]

Thanks for sharing your knowledge 🙏🏼❤

[@theplantninja-texasgardener]

Happy to share it! Grateful for your interest 💗

[@MrsQueen]

Skullcap is also used in medicinal medicine.
You have quite a few medicinal herbs 😍 ✨

[@theplantninja-texasgardener]

I need to take a course on this. I know we have an herb study group in our county master gardener association but it’s hard finding the time😭

[@joansmith3492]

thanks for the video Natalie! my purple skullcap did not live but my pink skull cap did ok. Your desert willow is so pretty!

[@theplantninja-texasgardener]

Hey Joan! Thanks! Isn’t it strange how some of these plants perform so differently for each of us? I may not have the pink skullcap touch😝

[@dianehoffman3508]

Beautiflul!

[@theplantninja-texasgardener]

Thank-you!

[@TheLivingBackyard]

The agave look great!
8:45 apparently if the tree gets purple leaves, then it is considered Forrest Pansy. I had no idea about that name!
Everything is looking so nice! Congrats!

[@theplantninja-texasgardener]

Thanks Martha! Common names can be different things to different people…I just can’t pronounce the botanical ones😂

[@TheLivingBackyard]

@@theplantninja-texasgardener Botanicals Shmotalicals lol We do what we can, it's their fault they made it so complicated, plus no one is taking Latin now a days 😅

[@theplantninja-texasgardener]

@@TheLivingBackyard you’re a kindred spirit 💗

[@jeanflores2242]

HEY! I was in 1st Armored Division!! How'd we never discover that before?! Those Gomphrena are such cheerful little things. They do for Summer/Fall what Poppies do for Spring.

[@theplantninja-texasgardener]

Seriously, how’d we never figure that out?! I was in 1AD 2004-2007 and deployed with them 2006-2007. I actually got to shut the base down in Freiburg Germany. They are now in Ft Bliss. Should I put my poppy seeds you gave me down this fall?

[@lisaawild]

Hi. I found your channel recently probably looking for videos on native plants for Texas. I am in Houston, so we probably get a bit more rain than y'all. I also have pets (2 dogs, a cat and a rabbit.) I have been incorporating more natives though I do have some roses. I want to hp the pollinators, birds and other wildlife, while not harming the environment.

[@theplantninja-texasgardener]

Hey girlfriend! Texas A&M has a wonderful philosophy on pest management that includes biologic pest control as well: ipm.tamu.edu
Also a wonderful gardener in Houston that I follow is Jo: youtube.com/@jostxgarden?si=ErjAuwOBKQMTBK-t

[@lisaawild]

@@theplantninja-texasgardener yes I already follow Jo. She's great. I will check out the link you sent.