Wow. In Austin, these have been possibly the two most beautiful days on Planet Earth. Here's an image of crossvine (Bignonia capreolata Dragon Lady). It's a two-tone version of the more common orange—I’m never sure if I like it...
I've been traveling to San Antonio lately and stop in at a wonderful nursery there on Blanco Road that has a great edit of plants and much cheaper prices than Austin. I got a 10-gal pot of Golden Bamboo and a flat of something called Wildfire Verbena that is already my new favorite bedding plant. I put it in the empty holes in my front garden, still limping along due to drought. This verbena has huge blossom heads and is a psychedelic purple. LOVE.
For all garden-travelers check out this link of Great Gardens Around the World. Austin Garden Bloggers, let's make one of these our next field trip!
4 comments:
Libby, your Dragon Lady looks like what was sold to me as native crossvine. I bought a Red Dragon at Lowe's last year ... I hope it's not that same color combo! I need to look for Tangerine Beauty, I guess.
Name that cheap nursery! Your yard looks great...
The nursery in SA is Evergreen Nursery at the corner of Blanco and Hildebrand. Time for a hop?
I was reading your archives and just saw this post... I've actually been the garden 12 on the article you linked (Amber Palace in Rajastan) - the picture in the article doesn't do it justice. I'm not a giant fan of formal design, but in this case it was just amazing. Motifs from the garden are also repeated throughout the palace (or maybe it's the other way around...).
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