Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Chat and swap thread for The RU at Jan23's on May 18th, 1 by coleup

coleup wrote:
Greenthumb, will you have any Clustered Blue Bells available for the swap?

I find that blue bells are tricky to transplant and am happy that those from Holly have taken in front of my ferns and amongst my bleeding hearts. They are just beginning to bloom now.

Happy, is your slender Deutzia the low spreading kind or the bush type? Does it have single or double flowers? What time of year does yours bloom? I believe all of them bloom on old wood and are thus best 'pruned' just after flowering. They are in the same family with hydrangeas.

Mine blooms just after forsythia and has double flowers. It is easily 7' x 7' and I don't prune except to remove dead or damaged canes. I have rooted ends of branches by pinning them in containers of potting soil (my version of 'air layering}