Mid-Atlantic Gardening: End of summer blooms, 1 by speediebean

speediebean wrote:
Wow, this sure is a lousy time to NOT live close to Gita!! < =( I'd gladly share out my share of the spoils with Cat and Happy, just to have the experience to help dig and divide and learn. I read Jill's WONDERFUL article as well, found it, and the accompanying pics, to be excellent.

Let's see, the Platy that is thriving more than the other. She is situated so that she is between and set a bit behind the Otto Lyuken and Jerusalem Cherry, with the annual Begonias and perennial Verbena shading her feet. Does that make sense? If she gets any sun at all, it's quite HEAVILY dappled. And they are "touching shoulders", if you will.

The other one which is rather languishing... well, she is to the left of the Otto Lyuken and a bit farther away, so she gets more sun (didn't realize she'd want so much more shade!) She does have a lot of the perennial Verbena and annual Begonias shading her feet, but the rest of her is getting a LOT more sun exposure, and that is washing out her blooms and making her sprawl a lot more. This Fall I will cut her back again and move her closer to the Otto Lyuken (so they will 'touch shoulders' too), that should help. ... and I'll find a seedling Jerusalem cherry to move over to the other side... < =D

(should have thought of this... ya can't see 'em in the pic, BUT... the "good" platy is between those 2 shrub-looking things between the windows, the "less-good" one is to the left of the left-most shrub... and please ignore the weeds in the pic, they WERE taken care of after this pic was taken!) =P