Plant propagation - the Basics July 2017

Nibbler this morning Cynachum tips in the aster monarch cat ,

Still prayers be with Texas ,

wow, Ju. Are those on a milkweed I don't know about? Here are mine, again, they are going to town on the pink milkweed.

Debra Milkweed vine , Blue Vine Snakevine ,
Cynanchum is it's real name , the Kudzu of the north Monarch cats like it though ,

Nice milkweed leaves in your photo , Fun seeing the cats as they will become BF's

White Phlox this evening
indian Paintbrush sending up a new bloom stalk
Turnip greens
Zebra Grass
Gaillardia sprouts

Nice sprouts there, Ju . Save me some white phlox and I can save the purple for you .
I planted ten million Indian paint brush this early spring.. nothing.. had one last year ? I think. maybe two years ago.. it was in a multiple plant pot. ..a few of my 4 o clocks..

and a few more..and I do have seeds..if interested.

I forgot the white one..also, I trim mine or they get 6 ft tall and fall over in the rain..

Wow! So many colours of four o'clock Debra. I have never tried them

They fill the air with perfume. Yellow is the most fragrant. It blends well with Lavender moon vine, Datura Inoxia, and white ALBA moon-vine. Oh yeal - in Fall when Brugs are blooming, heaven on The Patio . The Jasmine has bloomed all summer, and Centrum Nocturnus sp? and milkweeds have a fragrance. Definitely good for me to concentrate on each flower just hoping I get a whiff of their different perfumes.,

Nice flowers you have also Debra , I will save you a few seeds of most everything .
That paintbrush needing the host plant to grow with ,,I too took a lot of seeds to get that growing I think there is a small one growing on a perennial rye grass root the one I show is using the Zebra grass as it's host root , I will try a few new seeds next to a couple grasses growing .
Zebra grass
Tomatoes
Spider plant bloom

Gartenmeister Upright Fuschia and bigger than ever Begonia and Coleus basket in Japanese garden. Both spared from frost

Keith Those are beautiful , I imagine Hummingbirds visit there often also I am digging and moving Daylily today ,

Frost?? Oh No! Those are gorgeous Keith. Ju, you grew that zebra grass?

Debra , yes These are from a root start of a plant that failed to grow It is growing nice now , as to if such seeds true or not , I have no idea

One of my arms is tired tonight I had the power hoe on the trimmer ,
I should have a nice blooming Daylily bed next season , it is first I nearly have back in order ,
I have a few daylily seeds in the fridge and some lupine seeds are swelled up . I hope they germinate soon , Fall planted for blooms next year ,
My older white swan Coneflower died this season and two blooms from a last years seed start was all I got , So I am about to start several seeds from the large medium bloom this years plant had , Seeds are better from a slightly older plant though
I am hoping the bloom stem plantlets of the Red Gaillardia root also
Everything ate my Hollyhock starts so I can only hope the seeds in the ground sprout when their ready ,

Ju, I also planted a lot of holly hocks, all the plants are doing fine, except for some yellow spots, and some slug holes. The slugs have been wreaking havoc on a lot of my stuff, time to put some sluggo out again. I bagged up the blue baptisia seeds already, and also some purple phlox, now all my patio morning glorys ( i nils) are bagged up at the pods to keep those nasty worms from getting in to them. White marigold surprised me, thought I ad lost all the seeds, but I must have found the one seed head from years past, as I grow them every year. False boneset is exploding it's fairy like foliage and bloom buds..It's so pretty with the cutleaf coneflowerand the royal catch fly in the corner fence.

Debra this is a nice time of year for a bunch of flowers to enjoy ,
Mine are mostly fading , and next years are going in place in the ground ,

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