Thanks. I'm patiently waiting for some buds to open on some other Dinnerplate Dahlias. I'm liking the big blooms.
THE GPS 11 - The Glorified Potting Shed
I love that lavender color.. its the color of loyalty and royalty. Im gonna have to cut my poor dahlia back and hope it still grows. it was busted down the mainstem so I expect it will not make it for too long. Drat that cat.
Yes, that's a bit of a dilemma. The problem is that its getting late in the season and it may not have enough time to regrow/bloom again this year. I'd probably cut it back anyway and see what happens. We're you planning on saving the tuber, by digging it up, storing it, and planting it again next spring? I'm assuming they don't overwinter and return in your climatic zone?
I have tried saving tubers in the past and yeah, dig them up and store them dry. Im tempted to try this one in the house under lights this winter leaving it in a pot. I will have to transplant it or leave it with the combo its in right now since its my only dal!... dilema dilema!
I usually do not do what I call "storage" plants.. examples are canna, glads, dahlias because of the excess work in digging if they are in the dirt in the garden and when I do do them they are in pots so easily dumped no digging and with a gardne my size, I need work and back savers. Im a growit and mow it kind of girl! hehehe!
Well, hope you are cooling off down there. they say hotty again here... ugh! Be checking livestock for heat truamas again. So far my herd is in excellent shape, but I know others losing weight and people not taking care of things good and animals suffering.
Dahlia "Barbarossa" from this morning.
Verrrry nice!
hardy hibiscus.. Rose of Sharon
Purple verbena
Arrrggghhhh! I'm back but don't blink or I'll be gone.
Too darn hot so I'm re-doing a few rooms.Just finished up the old livingroom. Use to be off-white,new color is suppose to be grey(Turtledove)but it looks dusty lilac.
Haven't been taking many pictures 'cause it's been to stinking hot but here White Texas Star
Well, thats purdy.. sounds like you got
lackawannadu2hotwedder
oh,I'm a-doing....just not outside
rudbeckia triloba "Red Spot"
Well, were hanging in here too... going blind doing paperwork...wish I had time to garden...
I'm re-surfacing and painting the hallway. It's taking forever for the mud to dry so I can paint so I'm spray painting the outlet covers. My house looks like a tornado went thur it and I'm wanting so bad to get everything finished so I can put stuff back where it belongs.
Id like to re-surface something too...but well you know where my thoughts lye. Ugh!
been dumping pots with bulbs.. jsut packed up some lycoris radiata to send down to another gal... they dont do good here. All i got to enjoy was the leaves in the winter in pots in the house. More space for something else this winter...
Gotta do the glads.. oh im soooo happy! HA!
I have a bowl full of daffs to replant .
I think this is spynx moth cat
Now stop that, you know I am a home for wayward daffodils...
Ewww! thats weird looking!
heeres my haha's....
a bunch of daff bulbs that got dug up when I was re-doing a bed. I need to dig out a dump truck load of lycoris radaita myself but dern if I know where I'll plant them back.....and you can't give them away in the south since most consider them weeds here
Wished them weeds woudl grow here! LOL! I never knew there were so many kinds actually. Saw some yellows, whites and pinks.
Dafs do great here in my swamp. Why they love the spring wet I will knoefer know, but do not send me any tulips.. they hate it!
Gotta finish deadheading tall garden phlox before all the seed goes into the garden like I need more...and my heleiopsis too. Its done. Got a lot to do and not enough time to do all of it.
been taking out the dead pots to storage for the winter...
moving containers to the porch, bringing plants inside.
Yea gads its that time of year....time to wonder when the first frost will hit.. can you beleive its over?.
One of my favorite things about living in Florida. It's never over. Oddly enough, this time of year I consider "the beginning". The vegetable gardens are just about ready to start. The choices you can make regarding what flowers to grow multiplies tenfold. Will be happy to get "color" back into the flower beds. It's kind of sparse looking during the summer. Here's a pic of the "Helena Gold" Helenium beginning to bloom out back. Never tried Helenium before. They're kind of interesting.
oooh so jealous.. but then again, my back needs a break
It all evens out Blossom. I get jealous in June when most winter stuff is dying down here. You're just beginning for the year. There are things that do well in the summer for us, it's just far more limited.
yeah, I know. I would just love to eventually get the plastic on our big hoops one year, then do the show all year. Course then again, I know, be careful what you ask for Blossom, it comes with big LP propains! Course we are not that far along yet either to do that, but if you gotta dream, dream big. If its in the book of life for ya, it comes in due time.
Magenta gomphrena...
Very very nice Blossom. Love it. Gomphrena is one of those flowers I've wanted to try but have yet to. Seems like I'm gonna focus on trying to grow annual lupines, california poppies, salpiglossis and stock as new plants to me this winter. Figure if I try several varieties of each flower, perhaps I'll find something that works.
Gomps can go in a pot Jon and they are really easy. I wished I had strawberrie fields, but just have the magenta and a little white. I will dry them again for seed, but this year I did not have too many.
They look like they'd be a nice potted plant. I'll get to them someday, but probably have to grow them myself. Don't recall seeing them available, as plants, during the cooler months in nurseries down this way.
not promising, but if I have seed later, maybe.....
If you do happen to find straberry fields keep me in mings and I will try to hold you some white and magenta. I dont see any pink out there but if there is, maybe that too.
...LOL! Thats "mind" not 'mings'... I swear spell checker is daft.
Well anyway, been busy here, cleaning beds, pruning, mowing... the usual fall stuff.
Put up pots to go indoors and indoors they went today and I am not ready to do that, but thought to be smart.
Dug some imps out and need to get some more so I can have those indoors to enjoy.
Need to do a royal house cleaning. Had a mouse... a-hem.. x 3 in the house.. derned critters, happens every fall. But this is the worst. Usually its one.
Im fretting on my loofas....hope they can finish out before frost... its a race against time on them and I got a lot of dangles on the vine.
Frost! Is it that time of year already??? We're still waiting for a cold front. That would be nice.
Yeah, the shear thought frost is just nausiating, but it is that time of year! Winter is sposed to be early this year so with that in mind, Im thinking spring.
We mangled a garden bed pulling out a maple bush... it was a tree, but the derned thing suckered so much it never made a tree and was always a shrub looking thing and had to go. We tried snipping it, killing it with roundup, and nothing worked and so w we chained it to the tractor and ripped it out.. So in the process we yanked some of my buried bulb pots and holy cows! They needed dividing like crazy so thats another job I have to do and then put them back in the ground some place. Got a back up in the GPS with those.
Ima wondering if cannas would winter here? I see so many of them and surely they do not dig them up....Jeez, some of the beds of them I have seen that would be a major undertaking.......
rip dat tree out huh!!! Technically we're not allowed to pull out any tree down here without planting another one to replace it. People still do it though. There's also a list of trees (non natives) that we're no longer allowed to plant.
Most likely the cannas you see there are planted as annuals or they dig them up and replant the bulbs in the spring. Generally speaking they're only hardy to zones 7 and higher. I just added a new one named Canna "Australia". It has dark purple/almost black foliage and the blooms are red. Quite different.
I just opened this thread on the cannas.....annuals? Hmmm awful large plant for a annual!
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1131784/
I am in aw of this plant Its really quite stately!
We have lots of trees.. volunteers for maples, oaks, poplars... weed trees actually
Nice Canna Blossom. I'm pretty sure the one you have is named Canna "Cleopatra". That variety immediately came to my mind when I looked at your photo. When I double checked it online, I believe I'm correct.
LOL You Northerners grow lots of our tropical plants and grow them as annuals. A Canna is just left it the ground down here and they bloom 12 months of the year. If your Canna is in a pot bring it inside and see what happens. If it goes downhill, then chop the plant down to ground level, dig up the bulb and store it in a cool dry place. You can then replant it in the spring after your last frost date. They are quick growing plants once they get started. There are also very nice dwarf varieties that can be grown from seed. They are the named the "Tropical Series" of Canna Lilies. The colors they come in are red, yellow, pink, white and salmon.
Awesome, yes, she sent me that one... so it is Cleopatra! Well, I will try to bring them in but that Cleo is huge! She set seed too so hoping the pods are viable. I am hoping to get more next year. I have I think 4 of them but only 2 bloomed andone is a dwarf... will have to find the pic and post it on the canna thread later today.
Its odd though, so many people up here have lots of them and they seem to "come" back every year without digging... Makes me wonder.
Well, we did not get any frost so I am gonna be digging up some more imps to bring indoors, then need to prune back my baby sunroses. What a job I got going now.. so much to do.... well you know the rest of that sentence. tick, tock! tick tock!
Perhaps people in your area heavily mulch them over the winter and they come back. It's more likely they either remove them and replant them in the same spots or they buy new bulbs and/or plants each year. "Cleopatra" is a medium/tall one. I've had some down here that have grown up to 6 or 7 feet. They consume quite a bit of space here over time, because they keep sending up new stems and foliage continuously. Not likely they will continue to grow inside during the winter because they like lots and lots of sun. Here's a photo of my Canna "Australia" this morning. It produces bright red blooms.
Well thats very pretty! I hope to get some pretoria and some pink, reds and whites, whatever flowered. Im game to try them.
So whats your opinion.. someone said let the frost hit them, let them die back and then bring the pots in to a cool place. I think I can do that in my crawlspace, but will have to bait for mice down there. EEKS. derned things are thick this year.
I have been back and forth to the aGPS and Cutting bed moving spring bulb pots and then running imps back to the house porch. I'm pooped!
Sounds like a good idea to let the frost hit them and then store them, pot and all, in a cool place for winter. They're hardy down to Zone 7, so they obviously can handle frost and somewhat cold temps. It's the extreme cold that occasionally happens in Zones 6 and lower that are probably the issue with leaving them unprotected all winter. "Pretoria" looks nice and very similar to the "Tropicanna Gold" Cannas they sell year round down here at the big box stores. There's a green and white variegated tall Canna named "Stuttgart" that I liked, but I didn't have enough shade for it. There's lots of white variegation in the foliage and it tends to burn if it's in our hot direct summer sun. The foliage is gorgeous though.
I'm mentally pooped also. Just got back from the car auto body shop. Had to go over there and sign a form to release my car. A drunk driver hit me last Sunday and totaled my car. I was quite lucky I wasn't hurt. Gonna have to get a new car in the next week or so. What a mess.
Well that stuttgart sounds wonderful. I like varigated stuff! Some places up here have tons of cannas planted in the ground and I have seen one place that has them all in containers....matter of taste and labour I guess!
Man, you got to be kidding me, you got drunks down in Florida? Ha!! I thought they were all up here. Sorry to hear that. Hope you are ok. Watch that whiplash. That could show after the event and much later. Been there done that, still suffering with mine. Nothing worse than a compounded whip. Why people gotta do that to themselves is idiculous. They say what is it 2 in ten are drunk or dopers.
I still am doing bulbs and movinghouse plants working my hoofies to the bone.