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Welcome to Emerald Gardens Newsletter  Fall Blooming Perennials
 Fall Asters are just one of the fall bloomers that will be covered with color this fall. Perennials reliably bloom on cue every year with a minimum of care.Many varieties will be profuse with color and some of the best grow well in Austin.
Select fall blooming perennials include, Mexican Mint Marigold ( Texas Tarragon)
Copper Canyon Daisy, Gayfeather, Garden Mums, Sedum (stonecrop), GoldenRod, Russian Sage, Zexmenia, Firebush, Mistflower and More
Landscaping with Edibles
More and more these days people want more for their dollars and planting multi purpose landscape plants is an easy choice. Many varieties of fruits and nuts are ornamental and provide landscape value beyond shade or colorful blooms. Grapes are great for arbors and large fences and the native muscadines are vigorous and disease resistant with attractive foliage.
Pecans provide large amounts of shade and grow and produce well in deeper soil areas. Ornamental pears are being replaced with fruiting Asian pears or others. Berry bushes are planted on the back forty where shrubs or oleanders might have been used.
Herb gardens are becoming a standard on some designers landscape plans and
pomegranates are more popular than ever for screens.
More obscure fruit such as Satsuma oranges, Japanese loquats, Barbados cherry, fruiting Bananas and Jujube are being planted as well. Tropical fruits such as Mexican limes, Avocados, Mangos, Grapefruits and more are being grown in containers on decks and patios. Always popular home orchard fruit like Peaches, Apples, Plums and Pears are more in demand than ever.
Everyone should go out and plant something to eat.
 Ponds are looking great After a brutal summer most new ponds were balanced the hard way and after the summer heat has started to subside they are shaping up quickly.
Hardy lilies are getting a flush of new leaves and flowering marginals are gearing up for another round of color. The slightly cooler air temps mean much cooler water temps and higher oxygen levels so the fish and all will benefit.
More frogs and tadpoles are coming out of hiding and the toads will be happy hopping about eating bad bugs. Even the Dragonflies will be happy with a new round of mosquitoes after the rains. Try to keep leaves and debris out of your pond now so you don't have a major clean after the first big cold front. Sit outdoors in the great weather and enjoy your ponding efforts.
Native Pond Plant Has Merit:
Buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis)
Buttonbush is fairly common in central Texas and is found all around the area lakes. It makes a multi trunked woody shrub or small tree that is an important nesting plant for waterside birds. Its thick submergent roots used for filtering also provide habitat for invertebrate and fish fry. Buttonbush has yellow fall color and a very showy pompom white bloom in the early summer that is loved by butterflies.
It will grow to 4 ft or more and requires an aquatic pot of at least 7 gallon to stay upright. A must for larger ponds this plant fills the niche of taller plants that wont have to re sprout from the water up each spring.
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