The entry garden is undergoing a renaissance! Volunteers cleared out the overgrown foliage and excavated the sunken edging. Yay Sharon Holmes especially! The city parks department stepped up and fixed the water main and sprinklers. All systems go!

The garden design is being re-imagined with shorter, easier-to-maintain plants with more color. But we need money to buy some plants, especially some pricey, easy-care native shrubs. Plus, we need to purchase fertilizer and soil supplements.

Eastwood plant sale!

April 12 Saturday from 2 to 4 pm

Dixon Branch Greenbelt Park — 10305 Lippitt/Sylvania at Sinclair

As part of the annual Eastwood Spring Celebration & Easter Egg Hunt

Our plant sale table will be in front by the street. Prices run from $5 to $20, with some special ones running a bit more. Sizes range from 4-inch to 2-gallon. Mostly native but some cool exotics. All plants grown in Eastwood and are acclimated to our soil and temperatures.

You don’t even need to have a garden. We’re selling lots of trees. If your yard trees are mature, and you’ve got no young ones to replace them, then you need to buy some of our saplings.

Ground covers:

• lamb’s ear — silvery, soft
• liriope (mondo or monkey grass) — shade tolerant
• straggler daisy — low growing, little yellow flowers, native

Perennials, flowering:

• black & blue salvia — large, shade tolerant, covers a lot of ground, native
• black-eyed Susan, Goldsturm variety — orange and black, sturdy, happy, native
• coneflower aka echinacea — lavender/purple blooms, sturdy, native
• iris — live, potted
• Lenten rose — shade tolerant, blooms in Feb. to March
• penstemon — purple flowers, red fall foliage, native
• yellow columbine — shade tolerant, delicate appearance, native

Perennials, non-flowering:

• agave, quadricolor — showy patio potted plant, tender
• artemisia, Powis Castle variety — silvery, native
• cardamon — shade tolerant, extremely aromatic, tender
• ferns — shade tolerant
• inland sea oats — shade tolerant, golden seedheads in fall, native
• Mexican feather grass — delicate, thread-like leaves, native

Trees (8 to 36 inch saplings):

• bald cypress — loses needles in winter, native
• black walnut — similar looking to pecans, loved by squirrels, native
• box elder — shade tolerant, bird magnet, native
• eastern red cedar — can be pruned into unusual shapes, native
• catalpa — beautiful spring flowers, big leaves, native
• Japanese black pine — unusual, exotic shape
• redbud — shade tolerant, understory, covered in small purple flowers in spring, native
• Shumard red oak — classic shade tree, red foliage in fall, native
• paw paw trees — shade tolerant, understory, Texas’ only native fruit tree
• yaupon — shade tolerant, understory, native

Patio bonsais:

(larger than tabletop bonsais, perfect for patios, freeze hardy, locally created by Francis Shaner)

• lacebark elm — great bark, leaves like cedar elms
• wisteria — graceful, oriental appearance, will make small flower bundles