Roses--
I bet among those mushy rhizomes there were--somewhere--
some small, intact rhizomes that did not rot...
Or---perhaps, there was still viable cores to the rotten (on the surface)
roots.
My neighbor's were dried up and totally dead....G.
July blooms
Don't know which it was, Gita, but I''m so happy to see them putting out lots of green leaves!!
I love Heuchera but they don't always hold their color well, especially in my yard where I don't have a lot of deep shade. Here's a sample of how they've held up in the summer heat. Most have been in the ground for about a year.
More Heuchera.
Looks good except for berry smoothie, looks a little fried
The Encore was blood red in the spring but now looks kinda blah. Citronelle has some burnt edges (worse in sunnier spots) but it doesn't look that bad.
I think Berry Smoothie might actually be dead. It was so pretty in the spring! And they all stayed evergreen this winter.
Oh, I forgot Southern Comfort and Sweet Tea. Will add them to the pics above.
I guess you can't add pics when you edit?
They look like they've held up pretty well to me (except poor Berry Smoothie). Heck, you should see *my* Midnight Rose! :-o
Catmint, what happened to your Midnight Rose? Mine was definitely prettier last year. I hear some Heucheras decline every year until they just croak one winter. : /
Reminds me that I officially lost my Heuchera (Purple Palace?) last year or over the winter.
I have heard that Midnight Rose is a slow grower and I will say that mine really has been. I keep thinking it is just being over grown by the ivy in that bed but the other Heucheras had been holding their own and thriving in the same conditions.
RRR, I too was late planting my Dahlias, mine had green shoots showing and I only got one out of 4 come up. Go figure.LOL
SSG, my Midnight Rose was doing nicely, but then when we came back from our vacation, it looked as though bugs or some kind of pest had gotten into it--the leaves all tattered and discolored. I cut off several of the leaves, but I don't know if it will make it through the winter. Here it is below. :-(
My other heucheras (Peach Flambe, Sugar Plum, and Kira Green Tea) are doing okay--they've gotten bigger and they've had long-lasting blooms, but by now their colors have faded and a lot of their leaves have been chewed on.
Ooh, I like that Peach Flambe. I do like how their colors change from season to season, but I'm not a fan of that faded rusty color that some of them get for half the year.
So far, the 4-season winner is Caramel. I read somewhere that Caramel and Southern Comfort were similar or virtually identical, but that's definitely not been the case in my experience. Runner up is Citronelle but only if there's no direct sun. There's quite a bit of leaf burning with a few hours of morning sun.
It's still hard for me to resist buying one when I pass by a pretty Heuchera at the nursery. I just have to remind myself that they're not going to look that pretty in my yard!
SSG, that's good to know about Caramel--maybe I should try it for next year. I know what you mean about them being hard to resist when they're fresh and pretty in the nursery! I think my lighter-foliage ones (Peach Flambe and Kira Green Tea) have fared better over the summer than the two darker-foliage ones (Sugar Plum and Midnight Rose). Sugar Plum was gorgeous when in full bloom, and stayed that way for weeks and I was so happy with it--then the bugs and heat came, and now it's looking rather shabby--and poor Midnight Rose has fared even worse.
The Peach Flambe was gorgeous in the store--almost vibrant--but has gotten less peachy and more greenish over the course of the summer. The color of the Caramel reminds me a bit of the Peach Flambe--it's nice to hear the Caramel does better over the course of the year. I'll definitely put it on my list--thanks! :-)
My Sedum Autumn Fire looks like it's about ready to pop--every day I go out and look at it, wondering when!! :-o
Happy, I wanted to let you know that I dug out that huge Goldenrod this morning! I'm glad I did--the roots were so tuberous, I'd rather something prettier was using the nutrients in my soil... I got a pretty red pentas to plant in its place.
Critter, thanks so much for the tip about the soaker hose--I picked one up last night and what a wonderful invention! :-) One of my garden beds is now nicely soaked-- time to move on to the next!!
Datura
I've bored y'all to tears with what my sad little bed looks like, and it's not changed much (and still needs to be weeded), so today I took a few pics of a couple of pretties at work.
First up, my favourite Crape Myrtle. I'm not sure what variety it is, but this baby has been smothered in blooms for about a month now, and shows no signs of stopping just yet.
Next up, the Dwarf Pampas grass that all our customers want.. so we sell out of the stuff within about 2-3 weeks every Spring. I think next year I'm gonna suggest to Boss Lady that we do a second ordering of the stuff so that when mid-July rolls around and people see what it looks like now, we'll have it for them.
Good Lord Holly that Datura is GORGEOUS!!!!!!!!!!! I need about 200 of those now.
Pretty sure the seeds came from Gita, I think it's called Raspberry Swirl.
Love the Datura, Crape Myrtle, and Dwarf Pampas. I can see why they run out of the Pampas! I'll have to put that on my list, too.
I got one of the Crape Myrtle freebies from Pepco in April. It arrived in a box-- a bare stick with some wrapped roots. It sat in a container for a couple months without doing a thing and then all of a sudden in early July it sprouted leaves at the base. So I now have a crape myrtle that's 6 or 7 inches tall! :-). I look forward to the day when it has blooms like yours!
Speedie--
Where have you been??? I have had seeds for this datura for ages!
It is called "Black Currant Swirl"...
I also have seeds for a double Yellow Datura.
These are amazing! They grow, on one season, from seed to a massive,
blooming plant. Too late foe this season--but you can start it from seed
indoors next spring about mid-February--as they are slow to germinate.
Remind me before the Seed swap.
I can also send you the seeds now--and you can just hold on to them.
They are all toxic if ingested--same as a slew of other plants....
The plant can grow about 3' x 3' and may need staking.
I have a nice Primer i wrote on Datura care--also one on Brugmansia care.
Gita
Gita, My broken colors are looking really good, too.