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Raincatcher’s Online Pansy and Plant Sale is LIVE


Raincatcher’s Garden of Midway Hills is pleased to offer pansies and violas at a fantastic price for your fall and winter landscape color. “What’s the difference?,” you might ask. Pansy blooms are larger than viola blooms, but violas are reported to have more blooms per plant and be somewhat more cold-tolerant. We also have alyssum this year – so pretty in container plantings – as well as ornamental kales, Swiss chard and mustard.

Please be aware that all orders are subject to availability at the nursery.

Pansies and violas are sold by the flat of 18 4″ pots. Each flat is $20 inclusive of tax. Alyssum is $22/flat. Please order with care – chard, kale and mustard plants are priced according to the quantity and size of the pot. Sale ends Sunday, 11/5, at 6pm.

All orders must be prepaid, either through Signup Genius using your credit or debit card (fast and easy), or through Zelle to DCMGA at treasurer@dallasmga.com. Zelle payments should be made no later than 11/5 please.

All pansies and plants will be staged at Raincatcher’s for you to pick up from the west parking lot on the campus of Midway Hills Christian Church, 11001 Midway Road, Dallas, TX. We will offer delivery in the Dallas area within about 5 miles of the garden for large orders of 12 flats or more. If you live farther away and would like a delivery, we’ll work with you to charge a fair price in the neighborhood of $10 or so. You may pick up your order on Wednesday, 11/8, from 10am until 2pm. Volunteers will be available to help pull and load your order.

This sale is open to the public, so please tell your friends, family, social media and Nextdoor.com contacts!

To review the options and place your order, please click here:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/805084EAFAD22A4FC1-44514196-raincatchers#/

Thank you for your support! Funds raised support Raincatcher’s Garden of Midway Hills, a Dallas County Master Gardener Research, Education and Demonstration project.

Cypress Vine

Cypress Vine Flower

When it comes to flowers, I like to get up close and personal.

I love to stare into them and what could be more rewarding than looking into the five point star of the cypress vine flower?  The bright red bloom also attracts hummingbirds who love to dive into the little white throat of its flower for nectar.

The fern like foliage also draws me to cypress vine or Ipomoea quamoclit.  It is bright green and buoyantly drapes around arbors, poles, columns, pergolas, or anything else you give it to climb. We have grown it in our Demonstration Garden on a trellis in a semi- shaded area.

Cypress Vine Draped At Ann's House With Althea In Background

This annual vine was grown in Virginia gardens in the eighteenth century.  Thomas Jefferson sent seeds to Monticello and it grows in their historic re-creation of Jefferson’s garden today.

Save the seeds of cypress vine when the pods become papery and you can hear the seeds rattle or just let them drop to the ground for a return of this welcome vine.

Ann

PS: Leave a comment if you are interested in a gift of cypress vine seeds from Dallas Garden Buzz.  We can mail  for planting next spring as long as our supply of seeds lasts!