Please help us see our garden through the heat of the summer by adopting a plant species to water and care for each week. This should be the easiest way for people to help without taking up too much time or having to haul a lot of water. Basically all you’ll need to do is bring a few gallons of water (milk jugs work great) each week to water your plants.
Please pick from the list below — as people choose a plant species, I’ll mark it on the list so nothing is duplicated.
STILL IN NEED OF ADOPTION
NOTE: If you missed getting to adopt a plant, we’d love to have a back-up list of people who can fill in while others are on vacation. Let me know and I’ll add you to the watering team! There are other areas around school that could also use a drink of water from time to time, like around the sign, so there’s definitely room for help!
Anacacho Orchid (1) – requires a deeper watering every few days PENDING
Arbor Beds (2 beds, with Coral Honeysuckle, damianita, pink skullcap, and Texas Betony): these plants need a deeper watering because of the raised beds, especially the honeysuckle PENDING
ADOPTED:
Birdbaths (4) — keep them filled and clean of dirt for the wildlife habitat water requirement–the Midkiffs
Autumn Sage (14 total: 12 in one set, 2 elsewhere) — despite the large number, they are easy to water–the Busfields
Blackfoot Daisy (10)–the Carriers
Sensory Garden (thyme, lavender, oregano, Society Garlic, Gray Santolina, plus Chocolate Daisy, 3 damianita, 3 Mexican feather grass): easier for one family to just take the whole bed – the Hattons
Tropical Milkweed(6) + Antelope Horn (1) — the Coates family
Lantana, Texas–the Midkiffs
Basket grass, or Texas Sacahuista (2) – Fitch family
Big Muhly (3) – Fitch family
Yellow Bells (3) – Kondra Family
Damianita (14) -- Kung Family
Butterfly Herbs (3) — Kung Family
Black-eyed Susan (9) – Kung Family
Prairie Verbena (10) — The Higdons
Woolly Butterflybush (1) — The Higdons
Texas Sage, Compact (2) — The Purcells
Gaura (6) — Mais family
Gregg’s Mistflower (3) — Mais family
Purple Coneflower (2) – Sanders family
Skullcaps (3) — Sanders family
Firebush (1) – Purcell family
Flame Acanthus (6) – Baddour family
Mealy Blue Sage (8) — Shrull family
Standing Cypress (2) – Shrull family
Tropical Sage (1) — Shrull family
Texas Betony (12, around Anacacho Orchid) – Rodriguez family
Zexmenia (3) — Miller family
Four-Nerve Daisy (14) — Faires- McClellan family
Once we’ve got our rain collection system installed (and once the plants are established) this won’t be necessary anymore! Thank you so much for keeping our beautiful garden thriving!
Meredith,
My family will take the sensory garden. What weekend do you want us to start watering?
Cindy
Awesome, Cindy! Start whenever you feel like, but probably the first week after school lets out, on whatever days work best for you. You might need to water twice a week when the summer gets brutal. I’m marking your name on the sensory bed right now!
Meredith,
Put us down for the milkweed plants.
Stephanie
Will do! Thank you so much! Note that the antelope horn milkweed is very little but doing well — it needs water but careful not to drown it while it’s tiny. It’s near the milkweed by the sensory garden.
We can take the bird baths and the Texas Lantana.
Thanks, Maria! Marking you on the list right now…
The Carriers will take Blackfoot Daisies.
Yay, the Blackfoot Daisies and I thank you!
The Kungs will take the Black-eyed Susan, Big Muhly, and Damianita.
The Fitches snagged the Big Muhly and Basketgrass this afternoon. Would you like to pick something different, or stick with what you have? And thank you!
We’ll take the butterfly herbs instead.
The Shrull family will take the black-eyed susan and standing cypress.
Hi, Marci. The Kung family beat you to the Black-Eyed Susans. Would you like to pick a different plant? And thank you so much!
Hi Meredith,
The Higdons will take the Prairie Verbena and the Butterfly Bush.
Thanks, Christy!
The Baddours with take the flame acanthus.
Thank you, Linda! Marking you on the list now…
We will take the zexmenia if it’s still available. When do we start watering?
Colleen
Thanks, Colleen! Start now — the plants probably need a good watering because I suspect many didn’t get watered that last week of school. And it’s already so hot!