Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Officially Autumn- fall garden chores, 1 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
Pippi---HELLLLLOOOO!

Mums can be pinched back until July 4th. Then you have to let them be to start developing bloom buds.
Any of the longer pinched off tops can be stuck in the soil and they should root.

speedie----

Assuming that the verbena will spread more towards the sun-light, I was going to plant one
in my small front bed, kind of more towards the back, which faces the house.
I am hoping it will "colonize" the bed moving towards the front and sideways.

--Can I still dig and plant some annuals amid the spread branches? That may look pretty....
--How close to the ground do the stems spread? or--do they spread upward as well?
--If I want to keep the verbena lower to the ground--can I cut off the taller stems so i can plant annuals amid the plant?
--Hoping to plant the other one amid my D.L.ies in my "YUK" bed. I would love it if it would grow there--
as not much else (flowering) grows too well in this bed.

We will see..................We will see...............I better write some notes for next season. I tend to forget
what did not do well, or what died, or what plant took over a pot and killed off everything else.
Persian Shield wins the trophy of the killer plant for this year. It totally outgrew the big pots.
As well as the Euphorbia that looks like"snoe in the summer" and is used in HB's and containers
as a filler. There is NOTHING left in this container but a mountain of the Euphorbia.
Will see, when i dig it up, if it has some special root system--and if it MIGHT be able to be rooted????
This plant gets the "runner up" trophy for being a complete "HOG!

Re-potted my Clivias today in slightly bigger pots--5 out of the 7 I have. They needed a bit more breathing room.
Trimmed off a lot of the ropy roots at the bottom and some of the longer ones on the sides.
Not to worry! All will be well!
These plants can grow monster roots--all bunched up among themselves so you do not even see any soil.

For those of you that have a Clivia---brace yourself if you ever need to pot these up to a bigger pot.
Mind you--they DO NOT need to be moved up. They do not mind being root bound.
This is what you will be faced with:

edited to add comments on the Euphorbia.


This message was edited Oct 5, 2012 4:54 PM