Plant propagation - the Basics July 2017

Oh nooo puppy shots, I already picked one!

Here's a few Daylilies...
Big Snow
Hemstiched
Just Like Candy
When My Sweetheart Returns
Strawberry Candy

Robin Very Nice !!! Multitude of Colors ,,, OOOOH !!!

Lovely photos all . Love all the daylily colours Robin. Ju, you were about 4C warmer than us. My last post was from Thunder Bay (about 4 hours east). We went away for 3 days and it got crazy hot but I managed to water heavily enough to keep all the pots alive while we were gone. Only 2 plants were a wee bit limp when we got home this afternoon.
Keith

I think they are going to rescue. At an hour and a half per feeding and they need 6 a day i can't get any work done. Cross your fingers for me?

Robin, I picked the little rottie male, but instead I think I am going to ask the rescue to name him Bronx, for my Bronx, who is still with me. and who he looks like. I really do have 5 dogs, and even 4 dogs is a lot.

Interestingly Bronx started refusing food a couple of weeks ago, but would take medicine, then he started refusing medicine. He is not itching, his lymph node swelling has gone way down, I'm thinking he is in remission. with no meds. I am pleasantly surprised.

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Bronx and the pup that looks like him

Mipii what lovely lilies.If you ever divide them remember me .

Major excitement in Oxdrift. This picture is not from my garden, My daughter Tennille just sent it to me (Kira and Reece's mom) she has been growing asclepias incarnata in her garden for years and this is her first monarch. Kira will be in 7th heaven. I bought seed and tried to grow asclepias before Tennille ever did but I couldn't get them to overwinter. I may have to try again
Keith

ok, pups should go to rescue tonight, I won't upload their glamour shots (nice back ground, toys... I took on my love seat) Anyway had a good butterfly day a couple of days ago when I got to go outside. and a bad bee day. I was in the midst of some bee stuff when the neighbor called about pups. the bees on this iron tank are supposed to be in that little yellow hive box. Frogs on lily pads. I got the shot because they were facing the other direction.
Going to be taking a LOT of cuttings from the passionflower, it has about covered my Texas sage, and the Native Plant society will need plants for the fall sale.

Cool on the first monarch Keith! I have swamp milkweed on the unmowed land around me, and asclepius tuberosa plus other butterfly plants here, and I have not seen a monarch yet. Just Queens and Giant swallowtails.

the little bit of Texas sage peeking out from under the passionflower. Red Salvia Greggi I think, my precious Desert Willow I spent $40 on last year that was in a pot during the hard freeze in December, I thought it was a goner, it lived and is blooming. giant swallowtail on Lantana Confetti

Nice goods in here Butterflies , bees and Puppies ,!!!

Hot and humid again here ,
Nice on the Monarch Keith , Youngsters some delighted . I always see them as Delightful playing about the Garden , or green spaces ,
I am trying coordinate my Perennial bloom scheme , The way mine are spaced looks dull
Plants are looking okay though ,

so glad I popped in! Beautiful day lillies, Robin. I love them. Oh Kieth, so happy for your kids, so happy to see children of all ages interested in growing pollinator plants.
Alice, (((hugs))) so happy you found homes, hope they keep the name for you, Bronx is pretty special, he loves his mom. Good for you with the butterfly too! I am going to a Noodling contest down in Oklahoma. Whooo Hoo will finally get to FISH!
Ju, your place will be filled in in no time with all your babies.
a large bloom on a bindweed from Buffalo. a New milkweed in the front with banana, it has really grown to huge sizes and looks good and smells wonderful.
a Lily out front, it's huge. A stargazer from out back it is huge also..
some yellow coneflower from my country gatherings.

Debra Fantastic , !!! It's Storming here

JU!!!!! I AM SO KACITED! LOOKIE this is what you sent me a couple years ago.
See Ya all Sunday.

Debra Interesting What is that ? does not look completely like a Fulva , Maybe a fulva Hyperion Cross . Very bright for that type of bloom from a daylily

Maybe seeds from the electric Orange that did not come true

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Debra that is also Like a named variety named You and I ,. But brighter and a little different , ,, you get to name it , it is unique ,

1 red Volunteer
2 A red admiral on Tuberosa
3 BES
4 Daylily
5 Daucus Carota

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Beautiful you guys! I love your unique Daylily Debra!

Cytf, my daylilies are young but I should have seeds in about a month. Pick out what you'd like and If they seed, I'll send them to you.

I like Just like Candy and Sweetheart.Thank you.You can send me a Snail when you are ready.

Was out checking on my garden and saw a Butterfly on my Coneflower.

All of your flowers here are Gorgeous , All of you ,

My Hyperion seedlings x crosses , The Hyperion actual has the fly sitting on it

5 is catnip

I am afraid to take seeds from my daylilies or iris, with all my bees helping out there is no telling what the results would be, so I just do divisions. How do you keep the daylily seeds true to variety?

Texas Sage, Echinacea, what kind of lily is this? can't remember, and my porch petunias.

I love your Texas Sage -- your Lily is a Trumpet, very pretty color!

Ju, I also love your Hyperion crosses, great job keeping the color but changing the form! I'm also impressed with the Bee on Catnip photo.

Awesome guys . Keep em coming. Have been gallevanting around the country again. No pictures taken. May get some after supper tonight if not sounds like rain all day tomorrow.
Keith

Mostly played with my gizmo a few hours , made mulch fo Tomato plants
From this morning
First two Daylily
BES
Monarda
Coreopsis

Gallavanting is good Keith , Better than being galvanized to a chair , lol

Coneflower
milkweed
coneflower
tomato
Amaranth

Ju these are for you as I have noticed you to be a zinnia lover.
1. Zahara double fire
2. Zahara double yellow
3. Zahara sunburst

1. Again for Ju. My first Tithonia in several years. Lots more to come.
2. A cluster of hanging baskets having a foursome on a shepherd hook. Mostly pansies and zinnias

Yes Keith I love zinnia , Not as much as all the critters do though ,
Zahara has gotten a lot of talk and Thumbs Up this season ,
Nice Tithonia , mine look okay only it will be a while still

Pansies in the Hanging Basket are pretty also !!!

Thanks Ju

Keith all is good that way , your welcome , and Thank you also for the Show !!!
A Question Mark Butterfly and Weeds

I was hoping my electric orange would bloom today , It is the only later blooming Orange Daylily I have , The plant sure looks the part , Big Sigh for maybe tomorrow ,

This Buds for us ? lol ?

Sure showing promise

really pretty colors, everyone. nice to sit here instead of in 100 temp and look at all the pretty eye candies.

well I have one photo really worth posting, given the plague of grasshoppers that is due to hit. this is a cicada killer wasp and his prey. A green grasshopper

Gallivanting around Pa/Md/ and WV in my oversize wheelchair. Crinum Gypsi, prob Ellen Bousanquets.
2- Coneflowers with a purple butterfly bush, 1- coneflowers with salvia? Agastache? 3 - lemon lilies? 4- hosta isin bloom here everywhere 5- coneflowets and black eyed susans maybe? I really don't know chuckl.

Where I was threading thru the streets of Lancaster, Pa - these are patient drivers inside city limits, kamikaze drivers on the highway.