http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NPSOT-NPAT/ Mailing elist for the Native Plant Society of Texas (NPSOT) and the Native Prairies Association of Texas (NPAT). Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:42:57 GMT Beverly Howard http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NPSOT-NPAT/message/8648 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NPSOT-NPAT/message/8648 Here in Austin, Turk's cap doesnt die all the way to the ground anymore, likewise with the Tecoma stans. The other examples that I can think of arent natives. Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:33:07 GMT Beverly Howard http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NPSOT-NPAT/message/8647 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NPSOT-NPAT/message/8647 There is a mature Cordia in Austin in Hyde Park on Ave H so of 43rd St. Also a very nicely pruned one at Big Red Sun. Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:47:34 GMT Reid Lewis http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NPSOT-NPAT/message/8646 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NPSOT-NPAT/message/8646 I have a very large Cordia bossier in Temple at Temple College that has been in the ground six years and is every bit of 12 to 15' by 15'. ... From: Emery Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:55:32 GMT Kunda Lee Wicce http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NPSOT-NPAT/message/8645 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NPSOT-NPAT/message/8645 Dear Folks, As a moderator/owner of this list, I don't have the ability to change your email addresses. Just re-discovered that fact. I can only delete them, Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:53:16 GMT John Carpenter http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NPSOT-NPAT/message/8644 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NPSOT-NPAT/message/8644 In the Permian Basin we are growing Caesalpinia pulcherima now but 20 yrs ago it did not survive this far north.   I find global warming pretty obvious.  In Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:55:19 GMT Emery Mitchamore http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NPSOT-NPAT/message/8643 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NPSOT-NPAT/message/8643 Elbow Bush, Forestiera pubescent, is endemic to our area NW of Austin. This thread was originally about Mexican Olive, Cordia bossier. Ten years ago, they Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:18:57 GMT John Carpenter http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NPSOT-NPAT/message/8642 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NPSOT-NPAT/message/8642 Forestiera ssp are desert olives.  Will Cordia survive in San Antonio and north?  Does well in Presidio Procrastinate NOW!  Don't put it off!  Ellen de Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:16:33 GMT gerin@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NPSOT-NPAT/message/8641 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NPSOT-NPAT/message/8641 Please note that this e-mail account is going off line in a few days. Please change our address to hood@.... Thanks, Dell and Gerin Hood This Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:54:25 GMT Bill Brooks http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NPSOT-NPAT/message/8640 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NPSOT-NPAT/message/8640 ... Lisa and all, I use those flags all the time. I am now mowing for (hopefully) the last time of the season. I've flagged 16 blooming ladies tresses in my Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:20:25 GMT lisa_m_h http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NPSOT-NPAT/message/8639 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NPSOT-NPAT/message/8639 lol We're Texas, and if we say it's an olive, it's an olive! I always just fret to death about planting those little ones. Even though I know they're better Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:37:48 GMT richardson_der http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NPSOT-NPAT/message/8638 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NPSOT-NPAT/message/8638 I'd go ahead and plant it. I bought a small one about 3years ago and it's about 5 feet now and I'm in the DFW area. I protected it with a t-shirt during cold Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:13:53 GMT Beverly Howard http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NPSOT-NPAT/message/8637 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NPSOT-NPAT/message/8637 It is Cordia boissieri but it is not even in the same family as a true olive. Apparently the fruit resembles an olive in size and seed but is not edible. I Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:57:57 GMT Mike Rock http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NPSOT-NPAT/message/8636 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NPSOT-NPAT/message/8636 ... What species is this in Latin binomial form? I'm curious because I've never heard of any olives being native to Texas, I've only heard of them being Old Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:42:54 GMT Emery Mitchamore http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NPSOT-NPAT/message/8635 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NPSOT-NPAT/message/8635 If you have access to a Rootmaker pot, I would use that. Otherwise, you should plant it in the ground to prevent poor root development. You didn't say where Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:10:05 GMT ledwards@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NPSOT-NPAT/message/8634 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NPSOT-NPAT/message/8634 I need some advice. I just bought my first native tree - a wild olive and am anxious to plant but its only 6 inches high. Should I re-pot it for now and let it