How nice to still have blooms
This is a Plectranthus from coleup. It was rather plain looking for the summer, finally beginning to bloom in September. And this was stuck in a pot all summer, forgotten half the time. A good tough plant. Photo exposure not the best, its a medium lavender shade. TIny leaves up to just an inch long. Plant stems about two feet sort of a sideways spreading shape.
WHatcha got as we await first frosts?
Thanks for new thread.
Sally I think that plectranthus originally came from Onewish at Holly's swap. So it overwintered on my unheated porch for me as does 'Mona Lavender' and two others with white blooms. I think plectranthus are great. Which reminds me to bring them in tomorrow.
This link shows some of the many varieties out there from Sweedish Ivy to Cuban Oregano...
http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/farnorth/gal1023333714440.html
On another note, my forsythia is blooming! Strange!
Ric and I were out yesterday afternoon after the Garden Club meeting & luncheon. We got the shade cloth off the GH. Ric took more cuttings I moved a few liliy bulbs to make room for a small shrub, dug a few cannas, removed some coleus, and cut down the Hardy Bananas so we could cover them with leaves. I think we have a month of work to do in the garden and the beds aren't going to get put to bed nicely this year but the things that really need done are getting done. I pulled the caladium bulbs a couple of days ago.
Gita, don't know any old ladies around here (... looks around and confirms: NOPE, no old ladies around here!), but that SURE does look like a nice chunk of fun for you to do... should be ALL done by Saturday, right? < =P heeheeheeheeeee And, honestly, ANY pics of anything that looks interesting to you would definitely be interesting to me. If it's YOUR yard, or anything to do with your yard, I will find it interesting. =)
Sally and Judy, what lovely pics!!! That plant is soooo pretty, I want one!!! .... OK, well, actually 3. ;) heeheeheee. Lord, please give me time to make room for MORE!! < =D
speedie---you are too funny!!!
Got two clump areas of iris done. One more to go.
Man! I have a lot of smaller divisions to pot up--loads and loads...
Anyway--this Thread is about blooms....
I CANNOT believe that my Non-Stop-Begonia is still in full bloom!!!!
The yellow one has not been so prolific...
I have grown this many times--and they usually croak around mid-summer.
Wonder why this one is still going strong??? What to do??? What to do???
SO! More questions
--Can the corm on these be saved dormant and re-planted next year?
--Must the tops freeze off before I lift the corm?
--How would this begonia do as a houseplant?
Anyone??????
Picture #2 and #3 are of the small Mum i had rooted cuttings for at the Swap,
but I did not have any good pictures..
This one bloomd a bit later--and is compact and SOOO pretty...
Take a look! I still have a few rooted small plants..which will, probably, go to
someone at the HD.
#4--New Guinea Imps still going on. Have to pull them soon...a shame!
If you look really close you can see a blue monks hood? Gita that is one of yours from this year. Toad lily
Hmmm..Paul...
Haven't seen you post a lot. Not even on D-mails. Wasssup?
I don't remember having any Monkshood starts to share this spring??
Of course--there are a lot of things i don't remember.....o(
Did yours drop most of the leaves--kind of, dry up and crunch up and fall off?
Mine always have done that....I always thought it was a fungus--
as the roots seem to be where all the leaf-blackening starts.
All that aside--mine also have blooms at the top--just not very exciting...
David always told me to not water them at all. How can I help--they are
in beds with othet plants?
Here they are....Yech!! Pretty sad.....G.
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WOW, that blue is spectacular!!!!
I actually have a pic or 2 to share, Wheee!!! Ya know that Dahlia I was telling y'all about before, the one that's all bushed-out and had some buds on it? Well, now it's got blooms, Wheee!!!!
Caladiums- my Bill's caladium was nearly as big as before. My caladiums that I had saved over from last year were a variety of acorn sizes, including very small …hardly much compared to the baseballs from Bill...I can't expect much of them but will throw them in a box with other overwintering bulbs.
Pulled up Amaryllis I had grown in the flower bed for the summer, Those too, look tiny compared to the softball that Catbird showed me she got in the bulb buy!
I grew these 'pumpkin peppers' for kicks. Actually they are in the eggplant family. The earlier ones rotted on the plants but these seem to be lasting in a basket on the counter. They are up to about 2 1/2 inches across.
Loads of Melampodium.
Got about five ripe buckeyes on my Bottlebrush Buckeye this year- it is just now getting big and flowering enough. Taking that maple down will probably help it.
THe roots from a Maypop vine.. it did not flower well in this shady spot.
I got all my caladium bulbs out and the cannas too. Just hated cutting down a few cannas they were putting out beautiful blooms.
Finally a few pictures of the pretties that are still blooming.
And a few more.
Very lovely, Holly!
Wow Holly, you still have so many blooms!
I don't have a lot blooming right now.
The last of the Canna blooms.
Dragon Wing begonia, still going strong. It was sold as Angel Wing, but I'm pretty sure it's DW.
Lavender from Gita, reblooming. That little bee was loving it.
Beautyberry, my favorite thing in the garden right now.
Miscanthus Gracillimus, which is so floppy this year that I'm all ready to get rid of them all!
My favorite heuchera right now, Fire Alarm.
The "regular shrub" NOID weigela from HD. Bees loved this one, too!
Abelia Kaleidoscope. I forgot to water it after getting it from coleup and thought I'd killed it, but it perked up after a little water.
SSG, it looks lovely! I really love your begonia--and can't believe your lavender rebloomed for you! Mine is looking a bit peaked right now.
Oh, your Fire Alarm looks great--nice color! Mine is looking a bit on the orangey side right now.
Your abelia is really doing well!
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No frost last night so the plants are still looking good. The beds are just so messy as I haven't been keeping up with the maintenance.
Holly, I think I got these elephant ears from you. I gave them plenty of room in a half barrel I got from Costco, and they're still doing great. Are these the same alocacias you have in the projects thread?
SSG, Those sure do look great! I love them with the OSP. Not sure if you got them from me Coleup gave away quite a few plants, could have come from her, she had some of them, too. There are a lot of different EE types but they could be the same Portadora that I have.
As blustery as it was today--I have NO doubt we will have a light frost tonight...
I was out there in my sweat shirt for about 4 hours trying to do what needed doing.
That wind was nasty! And SOOOO cold!
I cleaned up a lot of beds--pulled up most of the annuals--Bye..Bye....
Left some of the prettiest be--but, if we have frost tonight--they will be gone anyway.
Cut back all my Phlox and the huge N.E. Aster.
Cut back and dug up all my caladiums.
Pulled up almost all my Coleus, my annuals and some N.G. Imps.
Two big trash-bags full...
And--in the category of growing larger and more bulbs--the winner is "AARON!
WOWSA!!! Geesh! You should see how many bulbs there are now! And big ones too.
The other two--"Buck Rogers" and "Carnival" did divide into more bulbs too.
"Buck Rogers" did the poorest--but it was also in a more wet soil by my shed.
Anything there does not do well--as it gets all the rain run-off from the Shed roof.
They are all now in my Shop drying out.
Also learned a lesson worth NEVER repeating!!! >/b>
NEVER plant anything that makes massive root-systems in a BIG pot all together.
My BIG pot on the stump had all those wild-growing/sprawling Persian Shields in it.
AND--one of the big Caladium bulbs that Holy was passing around.
Plus a bunch of trailers...no biggie on those.
I pulled out all the annuals around the rim--but could not even stick a trowel
into the soil. Tried to be as careful as i could so i would not damage the
Caladium bulb(s). Dug and tried to pull it out by hand. NO GO!
Got rid of some of the soil and then took the whole pot down and started banging it
on the lawn to loosen the root ball. It worked....pulled out the whole root ball--
.but everything was so intertwined, I could not separate the two root systems.
It was a huge amount of effort.
Finally--when I got the caladium clump out--it had become 4 good-sized bulbs!
Yay!!! More for next year! Now I have to think what to plant in that big pot
next year. Definitely just annuals--as they pull up easily.
Need something tall in the center, though.....WHAT????????
And--maybe just plant the caladiums by themselves in a big pot as many of you do.
A QUESTION:
Can Osteospermum Daisies be rooted from cuttings?????
I had ONE plant--and it seems to love the colder temps--as it has flourished
(No blooms, though) but has grown well. Cut it back and prepared cuttings to root.
has anyone rooted this plant?? Any luck???
It looks like it should work.... Similar to the Montauk Daisies.
OK! Another long post.....sorry!!! They all seem to go that way. Gita
Here is the big pot on the stump that gave me so much trouble.
This pic is from August....
That sure looks pretty Gita. Sounds like you got quite a bit accomplished today.
ssgardener--that Weigela has some red tones I don't see on my boring old fashioned one plus the rebloom- or at least this is not the normal bloom time for old Weigela in this area...
Ssgardener and Sally I have just today learned that HD has an on line plant center! So maybe your 'regular shrub' is Weigela 'Midnight Wine'
http://www.homedepot.com/p/OnlinePlantCenter-2-gal-Midnight-Wine-Weigela-Shrub-W141912/100665862
And the clearance 7 gal 'regular shrub' labeled Cornus Pink may be Red Twig Dogwood 'Elegantissima' all grown up now
http://www.homedepot.com/p/Unbranded-3-in-Variegated-Redtwig-Dogwood-Shrub-D01015/202580342?MERCH=RV-_-RV_gm_pip_rr-1-_-NA-_-202580342-_-N
Coleup, I figured mine was a Midnight Wine but wasn't sure. It sure is strange that it's blooming right now.
WOW you guys, what beauties you still have blooming and growing!!
Gita, what about a Cordyline for the height you're talking about in that pot? Or a Dracaena, perhaps? Like maybe a Dracaena Marginata Tri-Color? Those are lovely! =)
Oh, and as for Osteos... I've heard of them being grown from cuttings, but have not tried it myself.
Speedie--
Pulling a blank on Cordyline???? Spider Plant?
I know the name--too lazy to look it up.
Big pots need a "thriller--a filler and a spiller"....love that analogy!
One year, I had the "Spike" in the middle--Which ALSO is a Dracena.
It colonized the whole soil in the pot.
Another year--I put in the Purple Fountain Grass---same thing!
Gotta think of a pretty, shallow-rooted annual of some kind...
Spring is such an intense work time that I seldom take the time to think
deeply on what I will put where. I just stuff everything in any open spot...
That is why my garden is so hodge-podge...NO rhyme or reason...
Must work on that! G.
Cordyline -- here ya go Dear: http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/148830/
I've got some green "Spikes" (Dracaena) in a pot out back... still there from last year, it never died off last Winter, so I planted some herbs around it this year. =)
Coleup you are a genius. I have wanted Red Twig Dogwood 'Elegantissima' for ages - how frustrating that HD may be misidentifying it.
Happy, Shrub Man down at Ace confirms that HD Red Twig is almost certainly 'Elegantissima'.. Price is $25 (half off 49.99) and there were 4 left this afternoon. And several more 'Forest Pansy' Red Bud have appeared @ $12.50 .
LMK if you want to add to your order!!!
Coleup: I think I'll hold off -- if I could find it for under $15 I might jump....
hi guys, just discovering this thread. We've been busy trying to keep up with picking and canning peppers and tomatoes. Our house is packed now with plants from outside that we took in too. It's always a pain with our cats; they love the new found dirt. I have to cover the pots with foil, which seems to work.
G. your non-stop begonia is so nice. I love begonias. I brought one of ours inside to see if it will overwinter.
Holly, can't believe you dug up your cannas already; we still have our work cut out for us. I usually wait until they die down. Last nights light frost didn't seem to bother them any. We still have lots of blooms including: salvias, chia, nicotiana and coleus. Our dahlias are super late this year; they just started in October along with pineapple sage.
I started a flat of coleus cuttings under grow lights for next year with my favorite, inky fingers ^_^ It's been a great season. Not ready for it to end. The tomatoes have so many blooms yet too. They could keep right on going if the weather held out
We got cutting from all our coleus this year. Ric missed the only inky finger that we had and when we went to get cutting they were toast. Or so I though, yesterday when I was cleaning out the mixed coleus pots I found that the inky fingers did look like toast at the ends where I would take cutting but the plant in closer to the soil was still looking pretty good so I cut it back and repotted it.
well, yesterday I could have taken several photos of still-blooming flowers around my yard, but with the frost we had last night, several things look withered today! :-(
For perennials that look withered--do I cut them back, or let them die a natural death?
The same with annuals--do I pull them up, or leave them in the ground to turn into natural compost?
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Diana, lovely photos!
Catmint- you can cut off anything wilted and yucky, and pull up dead annuals.
I've posted two links over on our Yardening thread on which perennials to prune in Fall and which to leave for Spring
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1337089/
Dianna--
Do you know that your Canna makes huge. black seeds in those spent
pods??? I have been collecting them--just for fun. Bigger than a pea!
They are so perfectly round--black and hard as all get-out.
Wonder how long it would take to grow a Canna from seed?????
Just musing...NOT gonna do it!
Re the Non-Stop Bbegonia--it is still blooming--I just have it in the dark shed...
Keep forgetting to take it out during these nice days--but i have not been home a lot..
I am tempted to bring it inside too. Wonder how it would work????
G.
I've posted two links over on our Yardening thread on which perennials to prune in Fall and which to leave for Spring
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1337089/
Sally, were the pumpkin peppers hot? never heard of that kind before
G. I've collected the canna seeds off and on over the years for DG swaps mostly. I've grown them from seed and they do germinate easily, so much so that we often have self-sown volunteers in the garden each year. Good luck w/your begonia. Ours is doing okay inside so far.
this year was our best for heirloom tomatoes thanks to NisiNJ and Critter!
Pumpkin peppers were sold as ornamental and are actually a type of eggplant. Look like little red pumpkins.
