my 2013 flowers

ooh, that's cold weather. i hope it warms up for you soon after the storm passes. good idea with the bucket.

you're welcome!

oh, right, well i guess your neighbor isn't too bad haha! there's a saying about roses, you can't kill them by over pruning them

the old stuff, hm, you can go ahead and cut it all back. you can leave maybe the bottom third of it, but the new growth should come from the base anyway.

I just cut a bunch of the mums off, it looks rather pathetic like a kid with a bad haircut!haha! I have it in the entryway, it does not get much heat except what comes in through the curtains we have up, and it is in front of the window, so now we play the waiting game. It is not supposed to get much warmer the next few days so I will keep the bucket on Rosey especially tonight we have freeze warnings out for our area.

I threw my mums away, there was no new growth and everything was brown. I pulled it up and there was not very many roots and what there was tiny and it was dead. So my hubby is going to get me some new ones, hopefully I will be able to get them in the ground early enough to build roots so it will survive the winter . My poinsetta also died, I was moving things around brushed up against the stems and they broke, they were dried out. Oh well, if you measure my sucesses against my failures in the flower growing business, you will see I have had more sucesses than failures! I have a question, how much bigger does my moonvine have to get before it will start blooming? I gave one to a friend of mine and it was one that I had started with all the others and he has a bud on it already! Here is a picture of mine so far, how big does it have to get? I have it in the picture window and it gets all the morning sun.

yes, starting with fresh mums sounds great. getting them in spring is also great. you can even sow some seeds, but they might not be perennial.

don't worry about the poinsettia, they are almost meant to be thrown away with the way the poinsettia market works. even here, after you plant one or so outside, the rest (if you buy any) can just be tossed with the yard waste.

i'm not sure, about your moonvine. the first bud should become visible from the top, as a bud, you'll notice the difference in appearance from the leaves. maybe the one your friend got was just different in nature.

Is coffee grounds good for potted plants? He said he just used water and coffee grounds. Got some from work and jjust would like to know if it would help the ones I got, the one he has is one of the ones that I gave away when I sprouted all of them. He said it was the size of a softball. It bloomed about 4 oclock yesterday, and boy was he surprised!

The neighbor gave me the moonvine that I gave to her, the leaves had fallen off! I watered it good and have it under the flourescent lamp and am going to see if I can save it, the soil was very dry to the touch. So I watered it like I said and am hopeful it will survive. Here is the picture and also I have a question, if I was to go to the neighbor's and got a couple of her morning glories and transplanted them to a pot inside would they grow? I had red ones last year and they did not re-seed I did not take any of the seeds and they all turned brown and dropped to the ground, I might have one or two volunteers coming up but not sure. The ones I have in the window are doing real good and I was going to transplant them to the backyard so they would cover the fence. Do you have any advice on the moonvine? And here is a picture of the morning glories in the window, do you think they will transplant very well?

Do different types of morning glories have a different leaf pattern instead of a heart shape? I got a couple out of the neighbor's yard where she had them and they were morning glories but they had different colors and different shapes of the leaves. I thought all mg's leaves were heart-shaped, I guess I was wrong, I sure hope I did not dig up any trumpet vine seedlings! Here is a front and side view of what I dug up and they were right around where the morning glories were last year.

they can have different leaves. when they are grown, they usually have some variation. i just thought the general shape when they sprout is somewhat heart shaped.

not sure what those new seedlings can be. maybe morning glories. it's too soon for me to be able to tell. they could also be weeds, you never know.

coffee grounds improves soil to make it lighter and better for roots. it improves moisture control in both ways. and it conditions the soil. try adding some to your plants this year and see how they do.

Planted another moonvine seed, and went over and got another seedling from my neighbors, I think it is a seedling from the trumpet vine that is against the fence. I am going to see just how big it will get in a container, it will be interesting if it will bloom in there. If it does, I can control it better and it won't drop seeds all over the place. Wish me luck.

Lol, good luck! The trumpet vines here grow to fast for me. They are near blooming already! I collected seeds in September. Would there be any chance they are still usable? I wish I could avoid this "p" word we all hate!

I have trouble with the 'p' word too,lol! I planted my morning glory seedlings today, and watered them too, one don't look too good, it won't stand up it keeps falling over. Oh, well, the two that were bigger I planted on the inside of the latticework the other two I planted next to the fence behind the Rose of Sharon. I might plant a few more there just in case they don't make it because I read that sometimes mg transplanted don't do so good. I am thinking of putting my moon vine in a bigger pot and putting it next to the fence that the mg are at, that way I will have moon flowers and morning glories in the same place and it would look really neat.

Well, several things have happened since my last post, my hubby and the neighbor tore off all the old latticework on the street side of the boardwalk and put up new and white lattice. So when I plant my mg which are Heavenly Blue, they will look so neat on that white. The morning glory that I said was falling down and would not stand up, I went out today and it was up and having no trouble staying UP. I put the moon vine in a bigger pot and put it next to the morning glories that I planted on the inside of the lattice. I still have this mystery plant, I talked to the neighbor that I dug it up from and she said that the trumpet vine does not spread by seedlings, it spreads by cuttings, so tomorrow I might go and get a cutting from the one in the front yard, so here is a picture of the mystery plant which is growing quite well. I hope it is not something poisonous.

I planted this moon vine yesterday in a bigger pot, do you think it will be alright for it to get rained on? I got it this far, I don't want it to get damaged beyond my control to fix. That is why it is in a pot, I can control it better in a pot than in the ground. I had to bury 3 forks tines up to keep the squirrels from digging in it, they tried this morning, do you think I need more potting soil in the pot or do you think that is enough?

I was out taking pictures and came across these two plants next to my Irises, can someone tell me number one are they poisonous and number two what they are? The second is a pretty purple flower that I also came across, it would be nice to know what it is too.

The first one looks like Toxicodendron radicans...poison ivy

http://www.sbs.utexas.edu/bio406d/images/pics/ana/toxicodendron_radicans.htm

The second looks like a wild violet

http://www.mirrorscapes.net/weeds/wildviolet.htm

As far as my knowledge goes, the violet is actually quite pretty when used in gardens. If you don't like where it is, moving it may not be hard.

I really like them...I have both wild and cultivated violets scattered through the garden.

I don't think the first one is Poison Ivy. I've never seen any that are serrated like that. Plus, do they survive in OH?

Hey, I'm to young to know Lol, but I do recall teddy getting poison ivy before.

I looked it up and OH does get it so...my bad. LOL

I wasn't sure, at 15 I don't travel much Lol.

Kwanjin....you may be right....I saw what looked like leaves of three and I know there are variances in the leaf margins....

http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/1000/1015.html

Virgina creeper would be my other thought

http://www.oardc.ohio-state.edu/weedguide/singlerecord.asp?id=460

Is it possible it is some species of rubus? That weed site themoonhowl linked to has that as an entry. It followed the leaf number, and shape.

It is quite possible....but most rubrus would have a thorn or two even that small. Teddie can take a look without touching the plant and see if there are thorns.

I'm not sure what else it could be lol. I think my society garlic has a disease or something. The flowered emerge warped and speckled with darker purple spots, yet the leaves are fine. Any ideas?

That is curious....Tulbaghia violacea is pretty much pest and disease free....snails and slugs are about the only thing I've found to be any problem for them...maybe thrips?

http://www.plantzafrica.com/planttuv/tulbaghviol.htm


http://www.tulbaghia.com/index.php?main_page=page&id=1

I pulled up this info on garlic as there may be some insight there.

http://www.herbsociety.org/factsheets/Garlic%20Guide.pdf

Thanks, I'm looking into it. Nothing I've googled seem to be of help

My verbena is just bursting with purple flowers. This is the first large flush in five years. Photos will be posted soon.

I have a bud on my rose! I also have my Irises getting their buds too, I took a picture of both to let you see how happy I am. I just hope Rosey can grow the bud into a blossom this year, I am not sure about the mystery plant I know it is not a Lilac because there are no buds and no thorns or anything, it is just a mass of greenery.

That's great Teddy! I bet they will be wonderful this year.

see that Teddy, your Rosy repaid you for all the time you spent on her! i'm so happy for you, and i know you'll enjoy your irises again!
now to see if the lilac will bloom. they do bloom around the same time as both roses and those irises, so just keep an eye out.

Ok, I will go out to check on it, my hubby got me a rose for Mother's Day even though I am not a mother technically. I grow plants and I love my birds so maybe I am sorta! Be right back to report about the Lilacs. No blooms yet, but there is a bunch of greenery.

I don't know if it gets cold enough here for lilacs, but we did have a major freeze last winter(8F). I must rush to the vegetable forum to find out about my tomato's possible disease. The leaves are curled and small, the flowers don't seem to produce fruit, the stems are spotted with small brown-black dots(Don't seem to be any insect).

Here are some photos of my favorite plants in the front and back gardens. The first is my society garlic, which has stopped making the weird mutated flowers, the second my Moss Verbena(Purple), and the last 2 are of my Confederate(Star)Jasmine, which smells amazing right now with the recent low winds.The Jasmine lines my pool, so swimming is a must during the blooming season!The light reflections is caused by the sun being almost directly above me while I took the pictures.

Here is one of my wonderful Iceberg Rose, which managed to survive the 8F temperature.It is a young plant, maybe even smaller than Rosey lol!

Is it a hybrid tea rose too?

I think so, Ill have to check the tag tomorrow. Lol! I kept the tag on the pot it was in, as I keep all my nursery pots for starting young plants in. The roses are Semi-double to Single, grow in bunches of 1-5, smell great, and turn a blushing pink in cooler weather.(that last one im not sure why it happens)

I went out and planted my nice plump Heavenly Blue morning glories, I planted 49 of them in 3 different places, also my hubby went and got some moth balls so the rabbits would not nip off the bud that Rosey has. I also put them in different parts of the Iris bed and on either end of where I planted some of the Morning Glories. It is kind of interesting, the last time I planted Morning Glory seeds it was on Mother's Day, go figure. I think that out of 49 seeds, I should have some come up.

HERE'S MY FIRST iRIS of the season , these were taken two days ago ,it is still blooming
Going to re-try hardy trailing ice plant it did not make it through the winter here , I still don't know if it is hardy here , so at the end of the season I will try keeping one in a pot , probably . Depends on the seeds I get .. if any ..

The Irises look amazing teddy! Do you have the species/hybred name?