Rambling garden commentary staked down to Houston, Texas. Wednesday, March 25, 2009. I pull them up, but their tubers stay under the filter fabric and send up new shoots. Sometimes the nodules do pull up out of the flower beds, and I stop to nick one with a fingernail and smell it. So famine is one method of controlling .

Friday, May 1, 2009. Besides of going on a guided one-day fieldtrip, and playing hooky for another morning to go hiking, I listened to a 4-day marathon of succulent related plant talks and absorbed tons of new information. And a small group of 10 on a fieldtrip to Ironwood Nation.

Soaproot was one of the first plants I got to know, many years ago, when I moved to this area. I was camping out by the river, near what turned out to be a seasonal stream, and there was a good colony of soaproot there. When I did get down to the hairy, bulb.

I fractured my fibula from a fall, so basically I will be on crutches for about eight weeks.