on PlantFiles it says:
Possibly the smallest mophead cultivar. It grows quite slowly. Flowerheads are equally small, sepals pointed and tightly set, sometimes different sizes. The color is usually red with a white eye but can be blue to blue-violet in acid soil.
Minimal cold hardiness; often devastated by spring frosts. Leaf spot susceptible, one author notes that it may revert to tall - growing type.
AKA: 'Piamina', 'Comet', 'Winning Edge', 'Pink Elf (TM)'
'Pia' is a dwarf; it would be very suitable in a pocket garden or in a container.
I've only had it for a year. I bought it with several other dwarf plants and shrubs at a Botanical Garden sale. It's supposed to stay smaller than 2'x2'.
Thanks Donniebrook, I guess I'll see about whether it stays small or if it reverts.
Garden Photos of '09... # 34
more noids
I'm swooning over dianthus 'Spooky' and the white balloon Dayne. This is for Cousin Nut. My singing worked
Satisfaction
Looks like it will bloom Dhalianut
Love dianthus 'Spooky' and 'Satisfaction'!!
There will be more open tomorrow.This lily looks great with the mophead poppies and Agastache Blue Fortune
A garden view. BEV
My Tigers
My wild garden view.
Thanks for the info on Pia, Dyane! It would really fit the bill for me in my new garden, but I think I'm in the wrong zone for it. I'm in the hunt for a zone 5 "smallish" blue or pink hydrangea that likes shade.
Your laugh for the day. The bottom edge of the garden shed roof is 6 feet tall. This 'Pacific Giant' is heading for Pluto (snort). 8-9 feet maybe? Looks pretty wanky.
Whoa! Snort is right!! LOL
dnut what does "looks pretty wanky" mean? I had an aussie in nepal call me a wanker once and i came close to sending him down under.
great pictures everyone
joann do you need some help?
Wow! Great pics, everyone! I love all the DL's and other lilies.
Too much to look at everything, as I'm so far behind and too tired. Been working my butt off to get things done here as I've been off all week, and great gardening weather for the most part. Been getting a lot done, though not as much as I'd hoped. I do this every year, and it always surprises me that I can't get it all done. I must think I'm Wonder Woman or something. Then reality hits. I would need a month off from work to get it all done. LOL! You guys know how it is. Oh, to be retired early and wealthy. Hello, lottery!!!!!
Shelly, welcome back! I've missed you.
Karen
wha ! Nice of you to ask.
DD and I will get going on the flaggs in a week or so.
Too much family stuff happinin here.
I second the ... snort is right... holy cow that thing is out of hand!!
Here are some blooms from this morning
Not the picture I wanted to send but I'll give it another try
this better be the one
I love this big hunker NOID
love em all Ge!!
Ohhhh yeah
Heres another collage from today ,some cheap pot dahlias from Lowes and a "didnt know where to plant it) container.
The coleus is Swiss Sunshine spreader and the dark one is Dexter,I'll take cuttings from that this fall, and assorted Caladiums, how lucky with the color scheme there.
love the swiss sunshine and cladium container!!!... what a winner!!
your welocme - the "heh heh" had me smiling joann - sounded kinda sinister
Wish you lived in the neighborhood, you'd never get any of your own gardening done.LOL
- Thank you DonnieBrook, nice to see you again as well. Very elegant potting shed you have there, big enough to double as a small guest cottage! ☺
David Austin Rose 'Sentimental' this am.
(Edit: Opps! Make that 'Scentimental' ☺)
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very pretty
This is my iris (SDB) which bloomed earlier this spring. Name is 'Reddy Set' as I am trying for this pattern of white standards & iris red falls.
Everything is lovely...except the snake!
Some Consolida ambigua I wintersowed - seed from gemini_sage
NOID daylily
Helianthus annuus 'Moonwalker'
Helianthus annuus Pastiche
The tag on this got lost during one of my floods. It's from Oakes.
Platycodon-double blue wintersown.
My tall phlox is kicking in..
another NOID
I'd have to did for this ID
another favorite in the same bed.
I don't remember buying this one - I think it sported on it's own
Anita - Wow....that's a heap of beautiful blooms!!!
Watercan - pretty Scentamental! Like that name too.
JoAnn - nice collage....I have Swiss Sunshine too....it is so easy, it goes back and forth from Fla. to NH every trip. It blends so nicely with other coleus and caladiums too. Very nice!