The entry garden is coming along nicely under the guidance of Sharon Holmes. The garden design is being re-imagined with shorter, easier-to-maintain plants with more color.

At the last plant sale, we raised enough to cover our plant bill from the Texas Discovery Garden’s native plant sale to augment perennials in the greenbelt entry garden, plus almost enough to cover a couple of large crepe myrtles for the garden extension that fronts Peavy.

But we need more funds to buy a few more plants, especially a couple of large crepe myrtles for essential mid-summer color. And we still need to purchase fertilizer and soil supplements. It’s years since the bed has been worked and the soil is doing poorly. So we’re doing it again — with a twist!

Eastwood plant sale!

April 23 Wednesday from 4 to 7 pm

Sylvania between Gateway and Vinemont 

Our plant sale tables will be atop the Vinemont Channel. Drop by, sip some white or red wine, chat about plants, maybe even buy some. Have you become an Eastwood Neighborhood Association $20 member or renewed recently? We can help with that.

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.

For many of these, we have only a few or just one left, so come early!

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-eyed Susan, Goldsturm variety — orange and black, sturdy, happy, native
• canna lily — long boldleaves, tall stalks with big flowers
• coneflower aka echinacea — lavender/purple blooms, sturdy, native
• iris, yellow — live, potted
• Lenten rose — shade tolerant, blooms in Feb. to March
• Mexican petunia — shade and drought tolerant, blooms all summer
• penstemon — purple flowers, red fall foliage, native

Perennials, non-flowering:

• 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, large 1 gallon size
• black walnut — similar looking to pecans, loved by squirrels, native
• box elder — shade tolerant, bird magnet, native, large 2 gallon size
• catalpa — beautiful spring flowers, big leaves, native
• 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 plants:

agave, quadricolor — showy patio potted plant, not freeze tolerant

lacebark elm patio bonsai (larger than tabletop bonsai)— great bark, leaves like cedar elms, freeze hardy

cardamon — shade tolerant, extremely aromatic, not freeze tolerant