Plant Propagation the Basics June 2017

Splendid!

Little Seedlings on the grow
White Yard long Bean
2 Red Yard Long Bean
3 Tithonia
4 Perennial Sunflower
5 Red Amaranth

aww your babies are so cute, Ju!

Thank you Debra . I was thinking that the Red amaranth will look good later in front of the Orange Tithonia
I am hoping at the morning glories . Their being real slow to grow ,
In the meantime I am waiting on the green Tomatoes to ripen ,

how big does red amaranth get in Indiana? In Texas, well it hit about 10 feet for me. (I have a lot of seed but not yet figured out how to cook or grind to flour so I don't plant anymore)

Gypsi This is a Hopi Red Dye Amaranth Largest I have seen it here was barely under 6 ft , that I grew it too ,
Loves the Hot dry earth type places
I am growing it in fron of my Tithonia this year , The Tithonia get about 8 ft tall here
Sometimes

A few things this day past
Skipper in the Milkweed
2 and 3 , Prickly pear cactus blooms
4 Fleabane
5 Rudbeckia

Holy crow Jù. Tithonia grows to be 8 ft. tall there?? What variety are you using. Mine is Goldfinger. Mine grow 3 - 3 1/2 feet. I used to grow them quite a bit and then stopped for some reason. Then a couple years ago when I changed my colour theme to red, yellow and orange I bought a package again. For some reason that year not a single plant terminated so I quit again. Then last year seeing your posts with the butterflies on your Tithonia inspired me to get them again. They are doing very well and I had just enough to put a complete row in the bed that is outside my picket fence in the back yard. It would be a catastrophe if they grew 8 feet there lol. I will post puctures when they start to bloom.

New red calla looking very stunning against near black Dahlia foliage

Tithonia around here is a potted plant you buy for $15 at Ace Hardware, I think it's too hot for it to make it through the summer. I've seen white and blue, get about 2 feet tall

Keith Tithonia rotundifolia (Mexican sunflower ) the seeds were originally (Torch
Others in a different place only only got a couple feet tall
True is though , those plants are big winner with Butterflies and bees ,
Pretty Calla , I love your arrangements

Gypsi hey need water and care to start , after the roots get longer ( which pots do not allow ) Their carefree for the most , needing water only every few weeks if dry ,

Thanks Ju. Not much to look at yet but this is the setting of my Tithonia and a close-up of one plant. They are currently about one foot tall. I seeded them under lights on April 10th

Keith Looking nice , Mine look different , My Red Castor Beans sent out a root then died this time ..

More weeds
Oriental Biennis
Optunia
4 a fuzzy pic of Lemon Pear Tomato

Hard work amaranthus grain. Have to shell it, then you have grain. Youtubes on this- I like it added to the salads I eat, but a little goes a long way...like you sprinkled grits (cooked) in stuff.
Pa hasn't changed, and here I am

By the old compost pile. A squash, guessing a buttercup, I deliberately composted the seeds, and lookie there, Hopi Red Dye Amaranth. Might let it grow for salad reds...Bronx smelling a bunny in my overgrown red turks cap.

2 hooligans that took off from their yard chasing a rabbit last night and got in a jam this morning. Fortunately there is facebook,. a friend posted where they were and it was near me so I went and took them a drink of water and waited for animal control. the white one had been hit on the freeway, I think a trucker got their first and carried her up the hill, the brown one stayed with her. I know I saw a man walking up the hill while I was southbound, gone when I got to the dogs. Worked out well. Owners showed up right after animal control.

Hope doggie will be okay , Kind of a Harsh punishment for chasing rabbits ,
Red Amaranth
Celosia
Tomato
Red Monarda (Debra
Butterfly weed .

Her owners were awfully glad to have her back alive, lady was in tears. Too many highways, bunnies get dogs in trouble.

Hi everyone, Hope your day was great! Kitt, glad to see you in familiar territory>?
Such cute dogs, Alice, and of course the bunnies get them all kacited! Ju, love that red on the amaranths. My monardas are exploding a little early this year and the hummers love it. They usually don't open until July 4th. :P:P
All this is grown from seed, cutting, or with a large rock on it. This Clematis Pitcheri took three years from seed to first blooms.Joe has harvested over a bushel and a half and he still has tons more to pick. I am loving my Blackberries. Monarchs have been coming in to land on the monardas, cones and such, hope they lay some eggs while visiting.

Looking good Debra

The lilies are just popping out .My garden is getting well watered since it will be raining most of the week.The White Carnation is blooming nicely.

Debra, with that pretty Asclepius Tuberosa I'll bet they do lay some eggs, your garden is beautiful. Everybody has those going beautifully it seems.

. only 2 of mine survived the winter. I have wet cold seeds in the refrigerator hoping to germinate some soon.

Ju you have some pretty weeds!

Thanks, Keith. I love your gardens they are so neat and tidy! None of my tithonia has come up, I'll try again later next year. I bet we all have a bountiful year gardening, with all the rain we all have been getting.
cytf, your lillies are stunning!

We need some heat a long with our rain. The whole 2 week forecast right now is for brutally cold

Keith, wish I could send you some of our heat. Our low today will be 87.

See what you can do about that lol !

I am following along enjoying the flower (s) and chat ,

cytf I agree really nice lillium

Debra I would send you some Tithonia but the plants don't travel well , I can send some seeds I know are good , I thought they were perennial your way ,

I am still working on getting several going , I may be resetting some of the garden again , Here we go again years and years ,

Gypsi , some weeds will do , others well , about the same ,

Hoping some warm weather at you Keith ,

On the road again The garden path road to where I was before
Orange Tuberosa
Yellow Tuberosa
Maybe seeds in a while and more ?

The tuberosa is doin good on Ohio roadsides. So was the heat, til the rains rolled thru- went from 80's to 70's then this cloudburst hit at sunset in Champaign and temp shows lo 60's.
Flaky type of summer- a flake of heat, a pulse of cool and circle again. The bugs are back on my windshield...
You guys have such beautifull blooms this year, I love all of them. Ju, in the desrt when opuntia gets too big, they cut them to ground. Then when Spring hits the things are a mass of blooms. It's neat when they were planted as a circle originally.

Those were awesome sky shots Kitt.

I agree! those are gorgeous shots, and.. I am going to try that with my cactus bed., Ju. Joe would love it.

Me Too the pics Kitt

Debra lots can be done with cactus gardens , they are such pretty blooms

2 yrs ago a seed , today a bloom
Daylily

Wow Ju that is the ultimate in propagation, producing your own seed and growing that beauty from ii. Congratulations
Keith

Keith Thank you One of these is a pinkish rose ,one small bloom last year No other of these have I seen bloom yet
About to ? hope ..

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Lots to look firward to

Kitt, beautiful photos. Beautiful flowers JU. I really love the yellow and orange ones. Ju, I am unfamiliar with that plant. Great job on the day lily.

We are suppose to break a record today. 116 or 117. Not going outside much.

Slight pause. I took the dogs for a quick walk. They only poop on their walk. We saw the owl. Even it was panting.

Tomato worms have showed up. I found two but to hot to stand there very long and search.

I am on here early checking n a friend on another thread that is ill Thought I would drop in and say hello.

Sharon Nice to see you here ,
That is a Butterfly weed , Aesclepius Tuberosa .. Butterfly Milkweed ..

Sharon I wondered about you when I saw the weather. My uncle used to live in Pahrump, and we would drive out to Death Valley and China Ranch when I visited. 126 in Death Valley today. I still miss my uncle, he died in 2014, but I do not miss that weather in Summer.

Hi Sharon, good grief that is way too hot! Ju, that is amazing! I am so glad to see a bloom from a seed two years later.

I have some old old seeds in my refrigerator. They were on a shelf in my hot garage for about 10 years. I took the seeds from a plant called butterfly weed in 1993. They were yellow sort of like a california poppy, I think the flowers were smaller petaled similar to A. tuberosa, but it has been too long, and the leaves vaguely resembled the california poppy. Seed pods similar to broccoli, seeds look sort of like Texas Bluebonnet seeds, but the pods, like broccoli, were long and thin - like a tiny bean. Back then there was no internet to look them up, they were part of a wildflower seed packet and the flowers smelled like honey. The plants rarely reached 6 inches tall, low to the ground with the bright golden - orangeflowers sprawling for several inches to either side of the stem and roots. Anyone ever seen this flower before. I do not have a picture.

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Ummm, Gypsi, maybe a cassia sp? Or yellow syriacus?