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Welcome to High Plains Gardening, the free, non-commercial, gardening information website for the Texas High Plains region and surrounding area!

The purpose of this website is to promote a culture of gardening within the Texas High Plains Region by offering information on an easy and successful way to garden. My hope is that many more people will enjoy gardening, and gardening success, in the Texas Panhandle.

My Vision — Gateway to Southwest Gardens

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I have several goals, or visions, for the Texas High Plains region. I envision:

  • The Texas High Plains region will be known as “Gateway to Southwest Gardens”;
  • Area nurseries will stock and sell a huge selection of low-water use plants suitable for our area; 
  • Area nurseries will promote and sell a wide range of organic gardening supplies; and
  • TV gardening programs that focus on and highlight area gardens, as well as being informational about southwest gardening, will be broadcast locally. 

Establishing and creating this website is just one of the activities I do to draw closer to my vision for our area. I believe all four of my goals are attainable. Read through the rest of the website and give it a try. HighPlainsGardening.com is filled with information that will help you create gardens that are:

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 Joys of Autumn. The garden revives with cooling temperatures, for a few more weeks of splendor before the first killing frost. The garden in September takes on the first looks of the fall garden. The glorious mid-summer floral display is extended by cooling temperatures and in good years, September rains. Goldenrods are joined by asters and chrysanthemums. Dahlias and cannas continue to bloom and lantana plants become exuberant. The taller growing sedums flowers begin to open. Late season salvias come into full glory, joined by plumes from warm season grasses and crepe myrtles flowers. Annual and perennial vines such as hyacinth vine, black-eyed susan (Thunbergia alata), sweet potato and spanish flag vines (Ipomoeas) and sweet autum clematis reach their mature heights and flower, putting on interesting or colorful seed pods. Summer annuals, sub tropicals and tropicals continue to grow into October unless an early freeze occurs. Pumpkins and gourds are ready for the harvest and can be used as seasonal landscape decoration.

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Recent Garden Notes

The World's Most Popular Spring Flower -- The Daffodil

03/18/2021 - 18:58

The daffodil is the world’s most popular spring flower, according to the National Gardening Association. Daffodils will come back spring after spring with the least of care. But more than that, daffodils herald the end of a long cold, dark, winter, it’s bright yellow beaming through the leaves like the sun. It is overcast today with a chill, stiff wind, and I can attest there is nothing like a daffodil in bloom to lift one’s spirit. A vase of daffodils that includes six to ten of different daffodil cultivars is the most marvelous vase of flowers one can grow in early springtime! Large and small-cupped, jonquils, doubles and split coronas in differing color patterns pair well together.

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Daffodil Organization

03/18/2021 - 18:52

With over 30,000 registered cultivars, how can anyone hope to make sense of the daffodil world? Organization progressed right along with development of the many cultivars, dividing them into 13 divisions and creating a shorthand code that enables breeders and daffodil enthusiasts worldwide to easily communicate. For a cursory look at the governing bodies, learn how you can be "in the know."

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Growing Daffodils in the Texas Panhandle

03/17/2021 - 12:17

There is a daffodil that will grow in nearly every area of the continental United States, so diverse and variable are they. Even with our erratic spring weather, the Texas Panhandle gardeners can grow a diverse range of these hardy spring perennials. With just a few basic tips, gardeners can increase the beauty and success of a daffodil spring!

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