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The Potential in Limited Space by Terri Simon, Master Gardener HARRIS COUNTY MASTER GARDENER NEWSLETTER • AUGUST 2020 UrbanDirtContainer and Small Space Gardening Gardening Events and Information for Texans The Potential in Limited Space by Terri Simon, Master Gardener “Limited space creates unlimited creativity” – Anonymous Do you have limited space and an urge to surround yourself or unique leaves at an entrance with plants? It’s possible, but you need to think outside the box. or stairwell can make a state- Let your creativity soar. You can make space for plants either ment. It can also blur or soften inside or outside or both. a corner or a hard edge. Don’t As home lots shrink and more people live in apartments or forget a colorful or memorable townhomes, growing plants can be a challenge. Whether you want pot with a plant in it can be an to grow your own produce, herbs or ornamental plants it can be eye-catcher. One of the easiest done with time, thought, creativity and effort. The price of your ways to increase your plant space investment can vary as well. You can accomplish your goals on a is to go vertical. Vertical plants budget or spend more if you wish. draw the eye upward in addi- A window box attached outside the window can provide you tion to increasing your space for with color or greenery to brighten your day. Indoors, simply greenery. Remember hanging installing brackets and shelves across your windows can give you baskets? They’re still in style. room to grow your own herbs or other plants in pots. Two ladders There are tiny gardens and plants with boards placed across the rungs can provide you with shelving you can take advantage of as for potted plants. Terrariums or upcycled aquariums can provide well. Fairy gardens (my fave!) homes for small plants. Tuck an indoor plant somewhere on your can present a small tableau and bookcase or let a vine work its way across the top of your cabinets they don’t take up much room. if you have space. A balcony or patio can be perfect for making There are also smaller plants you your own slice of heaven. Take advantage of small nooks or entry- can use. Dwarf mondo grass is A disheveled Talavera owl with garlic ways for your plants. A single but striking plant with bright foliage a favorite I like to include in my chives brightens up a spot. cont’d on pg. 7 Photo by Terri Simon Upcoming Events ........................2 Texas Blue Bells ...........................14 President's Perspective ..................3 Ask a Master Gardener .................15 Herb of the Month .......................4 Master Gardeners in the City ........16 Plant of the Month .......................5 Growing with Plants & Nature ......17 Home Grown Lecture Series ........9 Open Garden Days at Genoa Gulf Coast Gardening Series ......10 Friendship Gardens ...................18 MG Garden Workday at GFG ...11 Gardening Tools ............................19 The Future of Vertical Farming ...12 Green Thumb Gardening Series ...20 A Viridescent Opera ...................13 Email your questions and photos to: [email protected] Have Garden Questions? URBAN DIRT • AUGUST 2020 Upcoming Events AUGUST 2020 Green Thumb Gardening Series Container & Small Space Gardening Texas AgriLife Extension Service Aug. 18, 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p,m,. Online at: https://www.facebook.com/harriscountypl/ Horticulture Program in Harris County 13105 Northwest Freeway, Suite 1000 Educational Programs Houston, TX 77040 Home Grown Lecture Series - Webinar To register for these free events, please visit: 713.274.0950 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/home-grown-lecture-series-tickets-114355313822 Master Gardener Program Coordinator Aug. 6, 10:00 a.m. - Earth-Kind Landscape Practices by Paul Winski, Brandi Keller - 713-274-0956 Harris County AgriLife Extension Agent - Horticulture CEA – Horticulture Paul Winski - 713-274-0981 Aug. 13, 10:00 a.m. - Home Lawn Maintenance & Care, Part 2 by Shannon Dietz, CEA – Horticulture Harris County AgriLife Extension Agent - Agriculture & Natural Resources Vacant Aug. 20, 10:00 a.m. - Focusing on Fall Vegetable Varieties by Kim Perry, Cooperative Extension Program - Agriculture & Natural Resources, Prairie View A&M Aug. 27, 10:00 a.m. - Elements of Landscape Design by Brandi Keller, Harris County Master Gardener Program Coordinator Gardening on the Gulf Coast - Webinar To register for these free events, please visit: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gardening-on-the-gulf-coast-tickets-106812198160 2020 Board of Directors Aug. 5, 10:00 a.m. - Blueberry Production: Ground and Container by David Oates, President Jefferson County AgriLife Extension Agent - Horticulture Beth Braun Aug. 12, 10:00 a.m. - Beneficial Insects in the Landscape by Paul Winski, [email protected] Harris County AgriLife Extension Agent - Horticulture First Vice President Alan Fisherman Aug. 20, 10:00 a.m. - Understanding Soils on the Texas Gulf Coast by Stephen Janak, [email protected] AgriLife Extension Program Specialist Second Vice President Aug. 27, 10:00 a.m. - Ginger for Tropical Flair by Stephen Brueggerhoff, Jonathan Correia Brazoria County AgriLife Extension Agent - Horticulture [email protected] Past President Youth Activities Evan Hopkins Growing with Plants & Nature [email protected] Secretary Please visit us on our Growing with Plants and Nature Virtual Group found at the Aida Pita following link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/GPNVG/. [email protected] Treasurer Master Gardener Garden Work Day at GFG! Dianne Lawrence Aug. 8, 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. 1202 Genoa Red Bluff Road, Houston, Texas 77034 [email protected] An opportunity to provide recent Interns or any Master Gardener to meet with other gardeners Directors to learn and work in a variety of gardens. Work tasks will be outlined, and available to Douglas McLeod Gardeners to seek their interest. The Gardeners will be available to guide you through the task. Danny Dunn Janice Muhm Dana Goeggel Linda Saxman If you have horticulture questions, email our Master Gardener Hotline at Alexa Haass [email protected]. Marsha VanHorn Please visit us at the social media pages below: Genoa Friendship Gardens Steering Committee Coordinators • Harris County Extension Horticulture Facebook Page Advisors • Harris County Master Gardeners Facebook Page Evan Hopkins • Harris County Family and Community Health Facebook Page Georgia Lau For more information on COVID-19, please visit the following websites: • Urban Dirt Editor Carolyn Boyd COVID-19 How to Wear and Growing with Plants AgriLife Extension Take Off a Face and Nature Virtual [email protected] Web Hub Mask Facebook Group Assistant Urban Dirt Editor Terri Simon 2 URBAN DIRT • AUGUST 2020 President’s Perspective Small space urban landscape Go big or go home. have our answer now. In the meantime, your Master Gardener It’s a cliché (and song) that evokes a bold, risk-taking attitude. Association Board has continued to meet online, take care of Some situations call for a different philosophy. The Houston business, and plan future projects. Our Program Coordinator Chronicle profiled a restaurant owner who took the courageous Brandi Keller and Agent Paul Winski have moved continuing step of leaving her brick and mortar establishment and moving education and other classes and programs to online formats, and into a food truck. Downsizing was her way of adapting to the the fall class for interns is in the planning stages. The HCMGA conditions brought on by the novel coronavirus. Store was successfully launched in June to sell trees left over At one time or another, all of us have faced forced changes. from our spring fruit tree sales. On July 14, Jonathan Correia Many of you have flood stories. Mine came in 2015, the Memo- and Evan Hopkins represented Harris County Master Gardeners rial Day Flood. After weighing my options, I decided to leave on a Zoom meeting for state-wide MG groups, to talk about our my old neighborhood and found my new home near downtown virtual plant sale. What we learned through our setbacks will Houston in an enclave of townhouses. After gardening on large help other county Master Gardeners retool their sales too. single family home lots for years, I now have a fenced-in front Nothing can take the place of seeing each other in person, but yard that’s a mere 10’ deep, and the city easement beyond that. while we wait for that time to return, you’re encouraged to stay I’ve learned a scale-down version of gardening. engaged as we reinvent ourselves yet again. Stay well. Lazy Gardener columnist Brenda Beust Smith reminds us to think vertically in small spaces in order to move the eyes up and Beth Braun to create tiers of plants. My verticles are a fragrant Sweet Olive, HCMGA Board President, 2020 a delicious kumquat, and a pomegranate. With a townhouse fac- ing a street that dead ends at a nearby park with ancient live oak trees and a walking path, I enjoy a steady parade of babies and toddlers in strollers, joggers, walkers, and dogs and their own- ers. There’s Bug, Maple, Igor, Moo, Ziggy, Rose, Rex, Orbit and more. Dogs, that is. Neighbors stop to chat and ask about what they see in my little garden. The massive floods brought on by hurricanes forced Harris County Master Gardeners to make major changes to almost everything we do. And then came the novel coronavirus, just as the long suffering AgriLife staff was scheduled to finally move into spacious new offices. On the watch - Samantha, the GFG garden cat A few months ago in this column, I wrote that we didn’t know whether the pandemic would blow over or blow up. We 3 URBAN DIRT • AUGUST 2020 Herb of the Month Hoja santa (Piper auritum) by Karen McGowan, Master Gardener Photos by Carolyn Boyd As tempting as the notion is, if I were to plant every fascinating crush one of the leaves in their hand and take in the immediate herb in my garden about which these articles are written, long ago fragrance point to one distinct equivalent: Root beer.
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