Juhur, I really have an eerie feeling when I am around kudzu, like if my car broke down and I had to walk out for help that I might not be able to find my car upon return...
Like with seeing pictures and shapes in clouds, some people see them in kudzu covered terrain
...I see a face of a dog..... How about you?
WOOF!
How About .. BOW!! WOW !!!!
I gave in to the silent screams of clearance packaged roses. Camelot, for $2.99. I was grateful for my smart phone which let me check Plantfiles and read someones comment that this one did well, and someone else's comment on another one in the bin, that it was the most pitiful of all her roses.
The cut off canes of this new rose, at least, are way bigger and thicker than anything on my current scroungy Knockout.
Update on what's available at the Home Depot---
ASM John asked me around 1:45PM (I was scheduled until 2PM) if I could work a
couple more hours and help out in garden--as some "biggies" were in the store...
I jumped at the chance---such a beautiful day!
SO---We got in some Ground Covers.
Among all the usual there were 4 kinds of Stone Crop. All in 4" pots. $3.67
--Angelina
--Red Carpet
--Tri-color
--and Blue Spruce
So much coming in now! And so much going down the chute!
Sunday I threw away 71-- 6" pots of perfectly good Pansies.
Today--I did the same....
WHY do i offer to help Sue (Bell) to do this? Because, that way, I can keep all the pots...;o))
Gita
Don't ANYBODY buy Blue Spruce sedum, I can give you and it grows like crazy. Angelina is pretty vigorous too.
Oh the humanity--er-- botany!! Maybe that's why you cannot bear to let any plant of your own go uncared for and unpropagated.
Haha, Sally, I'd love some Blue Spruce. I'll wait until the fall swap if needed. I love how the Angelina and Blue Spruce look when allowed to intermingle.
Gita: I think that's so odd that Home Depot pitches plants rather than reduce the price for bargain hunters. I bought a spreading yew today half-price at Meadows Farms today (for a total of $15) on a "TLC" bench -- a substantial burlapped rootball. I'm pleased, because it does well in shade. I understand that all their stores have a "TLC" area.... I'm planning to check out some of the other MF stores, and I'm sure I'll end up buying some full priced plants there as a result (all I was looking for today was mulch). So a "bargain bench" can bring in at least this shopper....
Terry, I'll save my Blue Spruce trimmings for you--anytime
happy---
Again--remember--HD DOES NOT own any of the plants, trees, shrubs, houseplants
AV,s, Cacti, Easster Lilkies, X-mas Cactus, etc...or whatever else...Bell Nursery does.
And it is THEIR decision to do with THEIR plants whatever they have to do..
All live goods are sold on a Consignment basis between Bell Nursery and Home Depot.
Their mission is to have only healthy, well cared for plants on display.
Anything even slightly "shop worn", out of bloom, out of season,damaged, etc. is disposed of.
And that is WHY--all the HD's garden Centers look so great since Bell took over.
All I can say is that they must have a very high %'age of sales $$ allowed for discards.
Bell keeps meticulous counts of every little thing that is discarded.
Bell is--in a way--a Monopoly....
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NOW--"Bonnie's Vegetables and Herbs" is quite different.
They deliver the 'goods"--about twice a week now--fill all the trays and shelves to the hilt--
discard any not so good pots--and all the trays (we now have a recycle cart for trays).
Bonnie DOES NOT keep any records of anything discarded or used for Clinics.
I can cull any and all pots from their tables and just chuck them. That's it.
I clean, consolidate an cull as needed when I am out there. Did it today.
The clinic I will be holding Thursday evening--I will use several of their veggie and herb plants
to demonstrate Container gardening methods, how to plant, arrange, take care of, etc.
NONE of the plants i will use from their tables need be accounted for.
When you think about it--how much can it cost to grow a tomato or a pepper or
anything else from seed? Mass produced--in huge Greenhouses--it would cost them more
in labor and paperwork to have to account for every little pot of product discarded.
So--they don't.
I suppose this information would not be good to pass around--as it would open up
a lot of possibilities for theft. Of course--NO Daves Gardener would ever think about doing this.
Right?????
Gita
I stopped at a farm store / nursery out toward New Midway and was tempted by more nice perennials in 4 inch pots, just bursting at the seams, including several colors of Lewisia ('Little Plum' & several shades from 'Rainbow Mix'). I also found 2 seedless grapes ('Reliance' and 'Concord') that I'd been considering ordering from Miller. Joyanna found a couple must-have petunias, a hot pink "million bells," and some Sweet Cream marigolds... and a little bronze-colored fairy. Like Southern States, they had a few chicks to look at also. :-)
I just love Lewisia but I haven't had luck with it I just need to find the right spot.
So... what kind of spots does Lewisia *not* like? I've read that it's an alpine that might like partly shaded exposures... so I'm thinking it would be a good candidate for a container near the (north facing) front walk, maybe potted up with some "gritty mix." ?
First one went into my lamppost bed and the other one got planted at the very front of the stonewall bed right between some stones. Soil in both of those beds is pretty rich as they were filled in with good compost when we built them and even though that was years ago the soil is really good. Maybe I should get some for in pots instead trying to put them in the ground. Wonder how they would do in Cactus soil? Maybe growing in my old boots, or that really pretty new blue pot.
On Sunday I took a break and went to one of my favorite nurseries just to say 'hello' and see what they had. The owner and grower took me on a tour of some of the 'new' plants they are excited about offering this year. Here are the three I bought while caught up in their enthusiasm. Tell me what you think!
1 Ceanothus 'Dark Star' (California wild hydrangea) pic 1.2
http://www.anniesannuals.com/plt_lst/lists/general/lst.gen.asp?prodid=2645
2 Sophora prostrate 'Little Baby' (National flower of New Zealand) pic 3
http://www.bushmansfriend.co.nz/sophora-kowhai-xidc17785.html
3 Clematis armandii 'Apple Blossom' (Evergreen Clematis) pic 4.5
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/91180/
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Coleup- I love that dark star hydrangea. Thanks.
Paul,
they also had a perris japonica 'pygmaea' Tops out at 2-3 feet.
And that almost black hellebore 'Onyx'.
Daphne 'Genkwa' with pale blue flowers
And a Creeping Raspberry ground cover that made me think of Happy's slope! 3-4 inches spreads 3-4 feet. http://www.wilsonbroslandscape.com/GroundcoverFileCreepingRaspberry.html
http://tcpermaculture.blogspot.com/2012/02/permaculture-plants-groundcover.html
And a Gold Box Honeysuckle shrub 4 x 4 at maturity.
Lilac Daphne- Daphne 'genkwa group'
Dawn Redwoods
Acer palmatum 'Orange Dream'
Hardy Bitter Orange 'Flying Dragon'
And wierdest to me a 'Monkey Puzzle tree' a relative of the Norfolk Island Pine
I felt like I had been to a botanic garden!!!
http://www.plantdelights.com/Araucaria/products/61/
Fell in love with ceanothus out west. Beautiful!!!!! Also LOVE that clematis.
The leaves on the sophora are sooo delicate-looking.
A few years ago I planted some creeping raspberry at my son's place in Oregon. Didn't know what it was at the time, cuz there were no labels. A craigs list find. It has done well and they love it.
I would love to tag along with you when you go on these adventures.
oh that Clematis!!! Love it!
Jen, It is much the same effect as Sweet Autumn Clematis but it blooms in Spring! Plants are hard to come by in trade. They had 7 left on Sunday. $30 for a 5 footer if any one wants me to personal shop for them, delivery at swap, Let Me Know!
Hopefully someone who knows how and when to take cuttings that take!
I saw all of the above plants at Riva Gardens
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Riva-Gardens/367872979335
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OOOoohh yes, love that Clematis, too.
Riva Gardens also has a Golden leaved Clematis but I didn't get the Latin name...Very different and the stems are dark reddish.
Local Sam's Club has 4" pots of Heuchera 'Dales Strain' for $4 (Probably at Walmart,too)
"Heuchera americana 'Dale's Strain' (Dale's Strain Coral Bell) This seed strain was found in North Carolina, propagated by Dale Hendricks, founder of North Creek Nursery in Pennsylvania, and consequently sold around the world. The leaves are green with white, red, and a network of different color veins on a 1' tall x 18" wide clump. Heuchera 'Dale's Strain' is a very vigorous coral bell, great for naturalizing in wooded areas. (Hardiness Zone 4-9)"
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Does anybody know what daffodil this is?? I have no idea where it came from. I thought initially it was two bulbs together but on closer inspection it looks like a single bulb with the taller bloom being very different than the shorter one. My friend is a landscaper and he had extras that were noid, of course I'll plant them!! Anyway. It is very unique.
If it's 'Ice Follies', the taller bloom might have opened first... there are several varieties that open bicolor and mature to all white. That "mini-me" bloom is cute!
The smaller one is pointed and the larger rounded that is what caught my eye. I'll take better pictures of each for comparison.
I do see that, Terp, but to me it looks like the "pointed" one is just newly-opened. Keep an eye on it, and we'll know!
You know I will!
that big one is so crystal-white- I have Ice follies but don't think of it as getting so white. Mine are fading now I don't think I have any left to check. And too, the picture color can vary just enough from the real thing. I have a terrible time getting nicely correctly colored daff photos.
You know what i noticed right off, Paul?
The little one has a "nodding" stem--just like Snow Drops.
Doesn't that seem odd on a daffodil--of any kind???
G.
I have several varieties that tend to nod.. not my favorite characteristic; I want to see their sunny faces!
Nod? Like nod off? As in, "I'm nodding off right now"
I am nodding off too---been a busy day--..mentally and physically---
Trying to clean up my house a bit---running up and down the stairs----feet hurt.
Doing the Workshop at HD tonight----feet hurt more........
Have a Dr.'s appt. tomorrow at 8:30AM also. "Nuff said"....
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.............................G.
Coleup's pics were tempting. Guess what I got?
Ceanothus dark star
Lonicera 'Baggeson's Gold'
Cham. 'Blue Surprise'
nice!
I was there. It is a great combo!
Heehee
Going to admit to not going back and reading through this thread. Tried scrolling back to see where I might have commented my last visit here and was getting too long to read with the little time I have this morning. I do hope that everyone who has been out and about taking in the sales having found some goodies. I have driven by a few nurseries in the past few weeks but have controlled myself and didn't steer the car to the businesses. I did make a seed order a while back and have yet to plant any of them. Many are house plants so I have time on planting those, but the ones that will go outside I really ought to address soon!!!
Anyway, maybe I will do better keeping up with the reading in order to have comments on what other commenters are saying. Do want to wish you all a good week coming up and have fun gardening.
Ruby
The road side plant stands here in Stafford and Manassas have a NOID Jasmine Sambac 1 gal for $10.99....just thought I'd mention it. Not hardy here...
I had a half hour to kill before meeting Mike for dinner. Hmmm, what to do, what to do. Meadows Farms was nearby - no brainer lol.
I came away with an azalea from the Northern Lights series called 'Orchid Lights' - very different looking from other azaleas I've seen, kind of like the native azaleas found in my woods. I did a quick google search when I got home - found a DG article http://davesgarden.com/guides/articles/view/268/ Big claim to fame is the cold hardiness.
I also picked up three tiarella 'sugar and spice' - one of the prettier tiarellas when in bloom.
