Beginner Gardening: Cutting Gardens Part II, 0 by oceangirl

oceangirl wrote:
Jessamine, thanks for the great information.
The water doesn't hurt the flower petals? I'm surprised by that- I never thought I could get the flowers wet- obviously they get rained on, but I'm going to try submerging them now. You learn something new every day!

Hi tabasco, I'm glad you're enjoying the thread. Does the white camassia bloom later than the blue? my blue is gone by, but the peonies haven't opened yet.
I'd love to try the white.

Ivy, store bought flowers are fine! I love your arrangement. I've never grown stocks but I'd like to try them. I love anything fragrant.

It took me a while to establish poppies in the garden, but once they establish they multiply every year. I let them go to seed so I will always have more. They do dissapear, for a month or 2 during the hottest months of summer- a lot of people think they are dead and maybe pull them out.
If you just plant things that will fill in the hole they leave in the garden,or plant them behind something, (and keep watering!) by late summer you should see the new leaves come back. I don't cut them back in fall.

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This message was edited Jun 12, 2005 6:16 PM