They also really flavor steaks, etc. cooked over them. We have a lot of these trees and around here, according to farmers, spring has not really arrived until they leaf out. And they are the last to lose their leafs in the fall. Sometimes they are a pain, literally, because of the thorns on them. Cattle and horses rub on the trees and get a thorn in their hide and it just keeps getting deeper and deeper...almost takes surgery to get it out. Mary ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 2:04 PM Subject: Fwd: [MAUPIN-CHAT] Plants > > --part1_16c.7474dfe.29788862_boundary > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > > In a message dated 1/17/02 9:48:12 AM, [email protected] writes: > > << Dear All, There is not much that grows in TX. (Pat,before you say anything) > that I like. I am a firm believer in planting ONLY indigenous plants. The > unfortunate thing is there are few offered in local nurseries. Things are > getting much better as people realize that water is a precious commodity. > I understand that water is going to be a s precious as oil because we are > using it faster than it is replenished and there are too many people. > I like anything heirloom as it thrives in its indigenous area. > Requires very little water,no or little fertilizer,and virtually no care. > I have lost so many trees from the drought but they were not meant to be > grown in TX(Silver Maples) Mesquite is all over the place. The Indians > ate the beans and ground the pods into flour. They require virtually no > water. They smell great when burned. Lynn > > > > [Original Message] > > From: <[email protected]> > > To: <[email protected]> > > Date: 1/16/02 3:37:29 PM > > Subject: Re: [MAUPIN-CHAT] NEW ZEALAND, YET! > > > > > > In a message dated 1/16/02 6:27:06 PM, [email protected] writes: > > > > << I have often wondered if the grass was different in other lands. >> > > > > Jackie: > > > > Plants are different between where I live and where I visit in OK and >> > > > --part1_16c.7474dfe.29788862_boundary > Content-Type: message/rfc822 > Content-Disposition: inline > > Return-Path: <[email protected]> > Received: from rly-xe01.mx.aol.com (rly-xe01.mail.aol.com [172.20.105.193]) by air-xe02.mail.aol.com (v82.22) with ESMTP id MAILINXE210-0117124812; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 12:48:12 -0500 > Received: from scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net (scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.49]) by rly-xe01.mx.aol.com (v82.22) with ESMTP id MAILRELAYINXE12-0117124745; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 12:47:45 -0500 > Received: from 1cust56.tnt7.grapevine.tx.da.uu.net ([67.202.74.56] helo=earthlink.net) > by scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) > id 16RGdb-0006PA-00 > for [email protected]; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 09:47:44 -0800 > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > X-EM-Version: 5, 0, 0, 0 > X-EM-Registration: #3003520714B31D032830 > X-Priority: > Reply-To: [email protected] > X-Mailer: EarthLink MailBox 5.0.6.8 (Windows) > From: "M LynnTaylor" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [MAUPIN-CHAT] Plants > Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 11:47:36 -0600 > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > Dear All, There is not much that grows in TX. (Pat,before you say anything) > that I like. I am a firm believer in planting ONLY indigenous plants. The > unfortunate thing is there are few offered in local nurseries. Things are > getting much better as people realize that water is a precious commodity. > I understand that water is going to be a s precious as oil because we are > using it faster than it is replenished and there are too many people. > I like anything heirloom as it thrives in its indigenous area. > Requires very little water,no or little fertilizer,and virtually no care. > I have lost so many trees from the drought but they were not meant to be > grown in TX(Silver Maples) Mesquite is all over the place. The Indians > ate the beans and ground the pods into flour. They require virtually no > water. They smell great when burned. Lynn > > > > [Original Message] > > From: <[email protected]> > > To: <[email protected]> > > Date: 1/16/02 3:37:29 PM > > Subject: Re: [MAUPIN-CHAT] NEW ZEALAND, YET! > > > > > > In a message dated 1/16/02 6:27:06 PM, [email protected] writes: > > > > << I have often wondered if the grass was different in other lands. >> > > > > Jackie: > > > > Plants are different between where I live and where I visit in OK and > also in > > NO CA since their weather is colder in the winter. I find it so > interesting > > since a lot of plants that grow here won't grow there and the other way > > around. > > > > If I had the $ I'd be traveling all the time! I'd like to see all 50 > states. > > Have only been to AZ, CO, HI, MO, NM, NV, OK, KS, TX and UT I think. My > > foreign country would be Baja California. LOL > > > > Jackie, pothos plants in Hawaii have leaves large enough to use for place > > mats! > > > > Of course, our Pat can tell us about European plants we don't have here. > > > > Sandi =^..^= > > > > > > ==== MAUPIN-CHAT Mailing List ==== > > RootsWeb forbids posting of copyrighted material without permission of > the author. Read RootsWeb's Acceptable Use Policy at > > <http://www,rootsweb.com/rootsweb/aup.html> > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, > go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > ---M Lynn Taylor > --- [email protected] > --- EarthLink: It's your Internet. > > > > --part1_16c.7474dfe.29788862_boundary-- > > > ==== MAUPIN-CHAT Mailing List ==== > Free Web space. ANY amount. ANY subject. 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> > << Dear All, There is not much that grows in TX. (Pat,before you say > anything) > > that I like. I am a firm believer in planting ONLY indigenous plants. The > > unfortunate thing is there are few offered in local nurseries. Things are > > getting much better as people realize that water is a precious commodity. > > I understand that water is going to be a s precious as oil because we are > > using it faster than it is replenished and there are too many people. > > I like anything heirloom as it thrives in its indigenous area. > > Requires very little water,no or little fertilizer,and virtually no care. > > I have lost so many trees from the drought but they were not meant to be > > grown in TX(Silver Maples) Mesquite is all over the place. The Indians > > ate the beans and ground the pods into flour. They require virtually no > > water. They smell great when burned. Lynn Oh, now you started something! If you haven't done so, you should take a drive over to the SW subcourthouse on Old Granbury Road. Some people have planted a display garden all in native grasses and perennials. These plants are not watered when the lawn is watered. Now, you are saying you don't like the trees? Do you know that Texas has native pine trees, native oaks, and native pecans, just to name a few. Then there are the cottonwoods, the mesquite, the juniper....but one of my favorite native plants is the Desert Willow, Chilopsis linearis. You might want to check out a book on native plants before you say you don't like anything hereabouts because there are lots of them. Also, there are a few nurseries which do sell native plants, the one that comes to mind first is Weston Gardens on Anglin Drive. They even have their own website www.westongardens.com I have two books on native plants. One is Texas Wild by Richard Phelan, and the other is Native Texas Plants by Sally Wasowski with Andy Wasowski. The first book is 242 pages and the second one is 394 pages. That means there is a wealth of info out there about native plants. Texas is like any other state in that it has plenty of native plants. You just need to do some more research. Pat