Here is the other one--Chantelle--this is the one you gave me and said it was a Dr. Seuss....It has grown a nice umbrella-shaped canopy and is loaded with blooms....
This one I will keep. Will try to give the one bu the shed away....Working hard on it......
Here is the third big bloom flush building on the Maya. The whole plant is easily 6'x6'--if not more.
This one has to go too......:o(
Few days later----went out and took some night shots....that sure shows off the blooms better.....
Another one-----
Remember the "Mystery Seedling" that was growing, and had set buds, right next to my tall, perennial Red Hibiscus?
I was starting to think it was going to be a Rose of Sharon--as the buds that had formed just sat there for 2 month.
It did not look anything like the buds on the big one...hmmmmmmmm.....
Then--yesterday--one of them opened--and it sure looks the same! In but it had a deep purple look. Got me all excited, but I DO think it is the same.
I have promised this one to my Manager at HD. Slowly--I am making a gardener out of him....
Will dig it up when it goes dormant.
Here;s the bloom.....just lovely! See the unopened bud next to it? Sure looks purple to me....
Here it is against the older one....That one is 5'-6' tall--right behind it. it is all done flowering. Another dichotomy!!!!
What is till confusing to me is that i KNOW that this seedling was not there last year.
Now--this is the Hibiscus, that I learned in the beginning, does not bloom until the 3rd or 4th year.
And--here it is--just BAM! over 2'tall and has several buds.....
It is rooted right against the RR tie that is edging the bed. Will give me a bit of leverage when I dig it up.
Moving on------
Never saw a Melapodium (??) grow this big! That is ONE plant. A great filler in any bed--and it is always in bloom. Drought tolerant too.
Just to the left of it is my HUGE 4 O'Clock. Gonna cut that back very soon and dig up the root.
That is going to my Manager too...he has fallen head over heels in love with all the 4's I have given him.
Here is my Perennial Geranium showing a nice bloom color.
I think everything has benefited from the cool spell we have had.
edited to say--to the right of it is the "Limelight" 4 O'Clock. It is tiny compared to the "Broken Colors".....
alsoothe blooms are a much deeper blue. My camera just does nor pick that up....
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Here is a heads up for all of you.
IF you have a "Good Stuff Cheap" store anywhere near you--PLEASE go get a pile of bags (4/$10) of this amazing potting mix. My store had it last year and still gas it.
It is so richly composted soil and bits of bark. VERY nice weight and water retention. Some fertilizer in it too...
I went and got 12 more today. I think I am well supplied for the next 2 years.
Here's what the bag looks like.....
I have been wanting to get a few pics of the double purple datura. I started these from some of Gita's seeds and put several plants in up at my Mom's house. They are huge much bigger than the double yellow that I grew last year. This is close to 5ft tall.
Beautiful purple stems really stand out there are more than 3 dozen buds on just this one plant.
Holly,
Your Daturas are great! That's about the size mine have usually been.
This year--as you may remember, i have had NO luck with my seedlings. My biggest Datura is maybe 2'tall.
Not sure if yours will mature any seed pods. it is kind of late in the year. Do you have any seed pods? If not--I have plenty to share. One of my yellow ones in starting to shoot up really fast now. No blooms yet.....A shorter yellow one did bloom and has made some seed pods.
***Remember--they have to split open before you can pick them....Gita
The blooms are just gorgeous and huge. This isn't the best pic as all the open blooms are just a bit past their prime and the new ones aren't open enough to show yet.
There are quite a few seed pods and hopefully they will mature before frost.
beautiful blooms!!! I am just pouting... brug didn't flower... my daturas didn't flower well.. what a bummer year ... hate to say it but the self seeded daturas did better than the ones I started inside .. and Gita I wasn't too impressed with the limelight... it was much smaller than the broken colors.. I didn't grow them this year
onewish--
I don't care for the Limelight either----except it is a nice shade of green. The blooms are small and, almost, insignificant....
The one I have came up by itself from seed maybe 2 years ago. It is no bigger than a med. clump of a Mum.
There are so many seeds that have dropped from my 4 O'Clock B.C. that I am guaranteed a supply for next year.
I am sure my Manager will get a lot of them.
I try to gather them every other day. Have almost 2 cups full by now. You have to stay with it--or the seeds will just roll down to the bed.
OK! Bedtime for me.....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz......Gita
Gita, Your plants are really pretty. Do you know the name of that Geranium?
Holly, that Datura is beautiful. I particularly like the purple stems.
do you believe out out how many years I grew broken colors... I only had one self seed... kind of depressing... I did not grow any this year... and only 1 popped up in the garden... I can't believe they didn't take over... in the past I collected some seeds... but not all... but I was thinking maybe those big seeds can't get though the mulch
stormy--
I really do not know the names of anything....well--almost,,,,,
I had one there from a couple of years ago--and then I planted one of the ones I got at Holly's right next to it, as mine was not really doing anything. SO! I am "assuming" that this is the newer one, since it is doing so well.
I was given 3 different Geraniums by 3 different people. This one is NOT the one Sally gave me....That had big leaves.
Have to find my list........
I have started taking down the rabbit fencing--BUT---so many of the flowers have grown through it, that if I pull off the fencing--there will come all the blooms with it.
The fencing also acts as a "cage" to keep things in bounds.....contained.....
G.
My "mystery" seedling of some sort of a Hibiscus finally bloomed.....
It sure looks just like the Red, Tall Hibiscus i have had for years.....BUT (remember--there is always a "BUT")---the color is SO much more intense! Kind of like a purplish wine-red --very intense! When i saw the bud--it looked deep purple and I thought--WHOA!!! WHAT do I have here? And then it opened up--and it looked just like the red Hibiscus, except for the color.
Took pictures--and yesterday I dug it up, potted it up and took it to work and gave it to my manager....Donn.
Of course--all the leaves went "flop"--and the bloom just hung down all wilted. I do not think the leaves will recover--but no harm. It will root in and bloom nicely next year for him.
Also gave him a 1yr. old section (that already bloomed last year) of my double pink Peony to plant. He is always so happy! Sometimes he tells me I "make his day!"....
We/I love him so (as a manager)--BUT (yes...again) we also know he will be moved to another store, probably, by beginning of next year. I think a good part of the 130 employees our store has will go into a mass mourning when he goes. At lease ALL the women!
Our store is very low-volume, and the managers come here to get their feet wet running a difficult store because of these conditions. Then, in about 2 years, they get moved on. They have NO choice!
I have been at my HD for almost 12 yrs. Donn is my 8th Store Manager!!!! I am used to it--as are the other long-timers.
...THEN--we will get the next wannabe! Sometimes it almost hurts to lose a manager you love......:o( Then a new one comes along--and you work with it---deal with it--and, if we are lucky--also learn to love him.
I, personally, do NOT care for females in the managerial positions. Surely--a conflict of personalities.....
Because I love Donn so--he is my "chosen object" to spoil I grow him his Tomatoes and basil and bring him all kinds of plants. He is soooo, unexplainably, hooked on the 4 O'Clocks-"Broken Colors" I gave him this Spring---he can't even explain to me WHY! It is something magical and "Cosmic: to him....He wants to line his WHOLE driveway with them next Summer! ,,,,Last year--it was the Daturas! They have now taken a back seat--even though he has them and they are growing and he likes them a lot......Go figure!
I cut all my 4's back yesterday (starting my garden clean-up early) and will dig up all the roots and winter them over in my basement (He does not have one) and then give them to him next Spring. He was sooo happy when I told him that today. I will have plenty of new plants from all the seeds that have dropped to the bed over the Summer. I will keep, maybe?, two! He can have the rest.....
OK! Let me stop all the gushing........
Here is the bloom on this mystery seedling Hibiscus. It is a "mystery" to me--because this seedling was NOT there last year--and then it shot up out of nowhere to almost 3'! THEN--it made flower buds that sat unopened for almost 2 months. Honest! ! I was like--It CAN'T be the same Hibiscus, as the one I have is known to ONLY bloom after 3 years from seed! SO! What gives? That is when I thought it might be a R. of Sharon.
THEN--this thing bloomed a couple of days ago and presented itself to me! It looks just like my Red Hibiscus in bloom and leaf shape. NOT the color! W-O-W!!!!!
Donn is such a cutie and so "innocent" about life and women and all that "stuff". I know he brings out the "mothering instinct" in ME! I think he is about 45 or 46?
Here she be!
Love the coloring on that one.
I know I already posted this--but here it is right in front of the BIG Hibiscus.
I figured that a wholw seed pod must have fallen down and I never founfd it--or maybe a bunch of seeds as I was picking off the pods (zillions of them!) . I still had an old clump of Candytuft right where this thing sprouted.
Well--the Candytuft kind of died last year--so I cut it way back in the Spring--hoping it might rejuvenate--but NO!
SO! Now it is GONE! Need to start new ones from seedlings in a MP--I KNOW I can get those at Edgertons!
What I will do is move one of my bigger Mums to this spot.
Three of my 5 Mums I bought last fall survived and I planted them in that small, circular bed on my front lawn that I moved my KK Hibiscus to. The yellow one is now in FULL bloom! And BIG! The other two--are still in tight bud. One is maroon--the other one is that fall-orange.
I will dig up the big, yellow one as I want all 3 of the Mums in this bed to, kind of, bloom at the same time.
Am also thinking of buying some of those fall Asters and planting them there in-between the Mums.....
Again--my mind went in a different tangent!!! AAAGGGHHHHH!
Here is that blooming, seedling Hibiscus in front of my old, red one--just behind it. GONE! As of today!
Here is the "old" one i have had for several years. The one I call "Tall, Red. Perennial Hibiscus". Many of you may have seeds from me of this one.
The leaves match--EXACTLY! The only difference in the bloom is the more wine color.
Maybe it has to do with it being a new seedling in bloom--and not a crowded-roots older plant.
What do you all think????
I am no Hibiscus pro, or even beginner, but it doesn't seem to me that beautiful saturated wine red seedling could be the same as the red, older one. And seeing how tidy you keep things, I believe when you say it wasn't there before (and you just overlooked it)
Finally got some pics downloaded ,and have tied up some other loose ends and have time to post. This is a close up of a bloom from "the nematocidal marigold" sold by Pinetree Seeds. Its a rangy scraggly plant but supposed to be highest in the nematode repellant (killing?) chemicals. It smels strongly of that marigold smell. So if you take a closeup you appreciate some of the structure, and see the spider hiding in it?
This is my best shot of 'Coral Nymph ' Salvia coccinea. Self sows, comes up late, blooms late summer till frost
That Coral Nymph has been coming up for years for me. Here's one that i think is crossed with Forest Fire
Forest Fire from seed last year, happy_macomb
Hibiscus??? Does it not also send out roots from which new plants rise up from the running roots??? I believe it does but am not sure. I got rid of one I had because it became invasive in my opinion. I did not bother to check if it was from root or from seed. Someone unofficially told me it pushed out roots that created new growth.
I like this plant. If I ever grow one again it will be in a plastic tub containment planting.
Sally, Do you know the name of that Marigold. Does it eat the kind of nematodes that bother Hosta?
Those three Salvia are beautiful. Do you know if they are cold hardy for zone 6? If so, would you mind savings some seeds for me? Thanks!
Stormy, Forest Fire isn't hardy here but it reseeds some, or you can save the seeds. They don't seem to get as tall as the parents if they reseed, but maybe they would if you gave them a head-start in spring.
The first time I saw 'Coral Nymph ' Salvia coccinea was at Disney, they had it in a lot of planters around EPCOT. I found the seeds in a catalog and grew them the next spring. But they did not grow as bushy and full flowered as theirs. And that was before they had the free Animal Kingdom poo.
Wonder what plants get the Bat droppings?
doc--
To my knowledge--this Hibiscus does NOT make new plants from any kind of runners.
It has been in it's present location now for about 8 years. Not sure....The clump has gotten bigger and bigger--as new shoots come out of it every year. It is quite massive by now--maybe 1 1/2' across.
Sally--This mystery seedling was NOT there--until this Spring. The seed might have been buried under my old clump of Candytuft which I cut back totally this Spring. So--it might have gotten some fresh air and took off. Man! it sure grew fast! Right off the bat--I compared the leaves and they were identical.
It had 2 parts to it. I gave my Mgr. the bigger part (3 stems) and the smaller one just pulled apart. I potted that one up and will keep it. Will see next year!
No one else around here has this plant---like half the odd stuff I have is from Swaps and Trades --so, in a way, unique.
I grew the "old" Hibiscus from seed that someone sent me. It grew and grew and filled out--but it DID take the 4th Summer before it bloomed.
I still think a seed pod fell there and laid dormant for a while--and then sprouted.....As for the wine color--who knows?
Many things could influence that....
It WAS a lovely shade of red!
This picture is from August. You can see that it is growing right smack against that old RR tie.
You can also see the leaves well enough to see that they are identical. The bigger one is just about to start blooming....
Chantelle---
Remember this Brug you gave me at the Swap?
Look at it now!!!
It hasn't "Y"'ed yet--bit is growing straight as a broomstick. That is quite a lg. pot it is in--but it is, actually, in a 1gal. pot which I will pull up and take it into the basement for the winter....
I like the pot-in-a-pot planting--as it keeps the bigger Brugs from blowing over and it is more practical to remove the smaller pot to take inside. This is NOT always as easy as it sounds--as the roots to venture outside the smaller pot and into the bigger one. I just cut those off after I pull out the pot and put it in a plastic bag to keep it from drying out too much.
Thanks again! Gita
Here is the bigger one you gave me. The one that was ID'd as a Dr. Seuss. Looks just like my Rose Souvelons.
It has bloomed beautifully--more than once this Summer. They sure love this cooler weather!
I will keep this for next year.
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I have a taker for both my big Brugs. I just have to, first, wait to hear from the Cylburn Arboretum. They have first dibs....
She did reply and said someone will get back to me next week.
The "taker" is someone from the Eastern Shore. Her son works in Lansdowne and would come and get them. Someone this lady ("chesapeake"--DG name) knows had a BIG sun room and would take them.
Whew! I feel better!!!1
I dug this up to move to another spot and it rebloomed for me in the pot...cool!
Surprise!!! reblooming iris
Rudbekia and Chinese forget me nots still going in my wildflower garden
Bes vine still going also in my wilflower garden
Flowerjen--
I took notes the other day--and made a note that I should buy a BES vine for one of my climbing pots.
Need a couple nice, new Clematis too.
NOW! Do you believe this??????
All the flowers from the big flush last week just all fell off in the rain the other night.
Look what was waiting------I just cannot believe this Maya Brug this year! Can't explain it either!
I believe Brugs like cooler weather than what we have here all Summer. They always do so well in the fall.
I would not know where to begin counting the buds! This will be flush #4--right on the heels of #3.
