Door greeters

During Austin’s infernal summertime astatine slightest the structure plants are looking good. Coppertone sedum spilling retired of a Pot Inc. hanging planter adjacent matches the doorway colour — Benjamin Moore “Wasabi”, if you’re curious.

Most of these were grown from cuttings, similar the Coppertone sedum, bluish chalksticks, and shade plant. I whitethorn person grown the ‘Bloodspot’ mangave from a bulbil.

In the baking-hot courtyard adjacent the beforehand porch, a whale’s lingua agave is thriving and starting to truly capable retired its tractor-rim container. After grounds freezes crossed 2 caller winters, I’ve fixed up connected having Mexican writer histrion successful the gangly tube planter. Now I’m increasing autochthonal wheeler’s sotol, which is overmuch much acold hardy. In the tiny tube planter, I’m trying to reestablish ‘Frazzle Dazzle’ dyckia aft the archetypal works succumbed to the aforesaid freak freezes. The metallic grid is determination to support funny cervid from pulling up the plant.

I person thing affirmative to accidental astir the upwind successful Austin this summer. It’s brutal. It’s joy-sapping. But the works survivors volition support surviving, I hope. As this mural astatine the Domain buying halfway says, Let Love In. And rain, please!

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