She'll be there off and on. Tell her Brenda says hello and I so miss seeing her!? IF you're really lucky, maybe you can meet and talk with Nancy, an internationally recognized, award-winning horticulturist, as well as Past President of The Garden Club of America. If you make it to the 80th annual Bulb & Plant Mart on Saturday, drop by the PLANTS THAT MERIT ATTENTION booth she and Odette started to honor Alice and Sally. Īlthough Odette, Sally and Alice are no longer with us, Nancy Thomas (co-founder of Houston Botanic Garden, among other accomplishments) is still a Mart stalwart. John the Divine Church, 2450 River Oaks Blvd. If you've never been to the (free admission) Bulb & Plant Mart, it has expanded and now includes expanded collection of hard-to-find and unusual crinums, daylilies, gingers, perennials, trees, shrubs, vines, herbs and citrus plants, not to mention rare plants and exclusive offerings grown specifically for the Mart from the gardens of GCH members.Ģ022 UPDATE: FRI.-SAT., OCT 14-15: 80th ANNUAL GARDEN CLUB OF HOUSTON BULB AND PLANT MART, Fri., 9am-5pm Sat., 10am-2pm, St. (Both were published with this column's original 2017 publication.) The first one, below, starts with common bulb-growing mistakes even experienced gardeners might make. This is followed by a look at the difference between annual and naturalizing bulbs by GCH's Dodie Jackson. That's the great thing about the two Spotlight articles from the Garden Club of Houston. They need that "dying" foliage to replenish the bulb for future blooms.This "storage" aspect is what makes them such easy choices for lazy gardener, providing, of course, that you pick those best suited for our area. The key to success: don't cut leaves off multiplying bulbs. The Mart's big emphasis back then was mainly on bulbs, although they brought in other plants as well. Technically speaking, a bulb is usually a fleshy-leafed plant with a base that functions as a food storage organ during dormancy. In g ardening, this definition has been expanded to include other plants with storage, like tubers and rhizomes. I could have, should have, written a book about then. My space would never cover all the plants the four ladies mentioned above, and subsequent GCH members, have introduced into our gardens. Close friends & GCH members Nancy Stallworth Thomas, Odette McMurray, Sally McQueen Squire and Alice Staub Liddell gathered in Nancy's living room and kept me in hysterics recalling their many "on the road" adventures. I'll never forget one of the most entertaining interviews I ever did as a Chronicle reporter, around the time my Lazy Gardener column began in the mid-'70s. These ladies sought out and bought unknown-to-Houstonians plants from growers and gardeners, carried them home carefully packed, tenderly cared for them throughout the year and, in the fall, offered them for sale to gardeners who formed long lines outside the gates waiting to get in. Garden Club of Houston's annual Bulb & Plant Mart ( 2022 Mart: FRI.-SAT., OCT 14-15 ) has a long and fascinating history. When I first started writing about gardening (so far back in the 1970s, even I can't remember!), the then-named "Bulb Mart" was already well established as Houston's premier plant sale.Ī small group of enthusiastic ( and, I thought, somewhat obsessed ) GCH members got in their station wagons and headed out - north, south, east and west - searching for plants they thought would do well in our unique subtropical climate - then oh, so, dependent on East & West Coast growers. "Tell about Night Flowers: Eudora Welty 's Gardening Letters, 1940-1949"Įudora Welty may have lived in Jackson, Mississippi, but be forewarned! Texas squirrels do like bulbs too! Hippeastrum are amaryllis Zephyranthes are rain lilies. Tell me, has it ever been thus, / Squirrels must eat the hyacinthus? Must you hang up in your pantries / All my Pink Queen zephyranthes? If in your tummy bloomed a lily, / Wouldn’t you feel sort of silly? Must you chew till Kingdom Come / Hippeastrum advenum? Squirrel, Sciurus vulgaris, / Leave to me my small muscaris, Squirrel, squirrel, burning bright, / Do not eat my bulbs tonight!
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