Pacific Northwest Gardening: First GLAD.....Failure???, 1 by Herpst

Herpst wrote:
Well, if you aren't going to let me manipulate you, I'm going to go to Bamford and Bamford and get more of these cool pots to put on top of my columns! If you really cared about me, you'd buy them for me - Skidivr said!

Of course you need more African Queens! And some Copper Kings and Casa Blancas, and that cool white one with the gold streak! I bought a lot of lilies from B&D at the Tacoma Flower show this year - they had been refrigerated & had no growth while the ones in my garden were already a foot or so tall. I feel so lucky because even though the heat made the lilies bloom time shorter, I still have the new ones that are just showing buds now. On the Victory Garden a few weeks ago, Michael was keeping his lily bulbs in the refrigerator drawer and planting a pot a week to insure continuous bloom for an ornamental container. I'm plugging my pots into one of my beds that is overrun with dracunculus vulgaris which has wonderful foliage and a cool but stinky flower. These tend to totally disappear after setting seed and leave huge gaps in the bed - In go the potted lilies.

Cutting back is for wimps. (This from a man who has about 30 pots sitting in his work area and no more space to plant them) I console myself with the fact that the plants are watered everyday and will be happy spending the winter in their pots. By next spring, the parking strips, which were sod & are now covered with cardboard & tagro, will be ready to give all of these treasures a home.

I love succulents! They tolerate my horrible neglect during the winter - I don't do a very good job with houseplants as they seem to want water more than once a year.

This message was edited Aug 2, 2006 7:04 PM