"animaux" wrote in message
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| On Mon, 07 Jul 2003 21:09:12 GMT, "Texensis"

| wrote:
|
| There was a passing mention of failed attempts in the garden and
also
| new things to be learned but, if there were answers given or shown,
I
| missed them. I'd be interested in knowing what was tried and didn't
| work and what was new to be learned for someone new to gardening in
| Austin ...... enquiring minds want to know
|
|
| Not just new to Austin gardening, but to gardening is two
agricultural zones
| warmer than where I lived in USDA Zone 6b, to Dallas, 7a, to Austin,
8b.
|
| I suppose you could say when I lived up in Dallas I planted azaleas
after seeing
| them in their utter glory in the Park Cities in Dallas. What I
didn't know was
| that, there was a strip of soil about a mile wide from upper Denton
County to
| probably a county lower than Dallas County which was very acidic.
As was soils
| in Tyler.
|
| Oh, I made mistakes with certain roses, plants which thrived in sun
up north
| could barely take morning sun down here. The vast differences in
habitat for
| the wildlife and coming from living on the water on Long Island, to
inland Texas
| where 4 of Texas' ten regions meet.
|
| I don't recall if that was actually on the show, but I did make
mention of the
| vast species which are naturally occurring here because of the
richness of not
| only four regions meeting, but the corridors which connect them.
There are
| species which will only really thrive INside of the corridors, some
can move
| about one side to the other and down the center of the
corridors...it can get
| complicate with phenology and how things work, why they work and
when.
|
| I am working on a book which will be sort of a manual for
northerners who move
| south. Not just to Texas, but the whole south. I suppose it will
be geared
| toward Texas, particularly where we are now in and around Austin. I
have no
| idea when it will be finished, but I have the title in mind and I am
gathering
| information and forming opinions and giving it a fair shot. It's
not a fast
| process.
|
| Victoria

Thanx for your response. The real truth about gardening around here is
that no two years are the same and what worked once may never work
again!