Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Yardening June #2, 2014, 4 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
Yikes, Holly!!!

I walk around pulling up little maple starts and Oxalis....
Your weeds are killer-size!!!

I was outside 5 hours today--came in to sit here and catch up.
I was determined to clear my big patio table of "stuff'....planted a few things-
and put some left-over stuff in trays and elsewhere.

Holly--since you asked for Swedish ivy--I finally got to trimming back (totally)
my oldest HB of it. It is so miserably root-bound--but is grows big and lush anyway.

SO--I started 2-10" HB's with new cuttings --as well as a tray-full of 4" pots.
Anyone doing cuttings and making new pots---PLEASE know that--3 cuttings
in each finger-hole always make a lush HB or pot. Never stick just ONE cutting in.

I have a second, HUGE HB of it growing away. This one is also a few years old--
but I have to let it grow--as --IF I take any more cuttings--I will have to open a shop!


1--Here is the old one I just decimated..Yeah! I KNOW it will grow back...

2--The tray of cuttings--there is 9 cuttings (3 bunches of 3) in wch 4"pot.
(The cuttings on the right are Foxgloves...)

3--The chopped up pot--re-growing...Someone can then have it.

4--The one I will have to keep--this one is the other older Swedish ivy HB.
Should give this one a hair-cut as well--but I don't want to be stuck with
4o pots of Sw. ivy.

G.


I am forever baffled WHERE this plant went??? I have NEVER seen it in stores--
at least not this original variety. I know there are now others--but this one,
with the shiny leaves, is the "real" one....at least to me.



3--Here's the one I already have.....it is also root-bound, but it doesn't seem to matter...
I really do not have room for 2 of these in the house for the winter....