Plant propagation discussions-April 2019

Boots is gorgeous Sharon (just found top of page). Planted buttercup and baby butternut squash, and cantaloupe, and marigold and moonflower from seed today. A tried a couple of my brazilian buttonflower seeds from a couple of years ago in a pot where my sprinkler will catch it.

Harvested blackberries. about to have to lift more smooth blue aster to make room in the front bed, it's all over the place.

Looks like my mexican flame vine is making a comeback, if it hadn't the one in the greenhouse is all over. Right now it's an inch tall. No photos or I'll lose my daylight.

It was supposed to rain here today but didn't, have to water. Going to be cool for a couple of days, should help the garden.

Can't say I have ever seen salvià in that colour Jù

Keith ( New Dimensions Rose Salvia ,, Not hardy where you are I suppose

I would think not LOL

Keith I decide to go that way after agastache have not done well here either , Spring distorted weather takes them down ,and few poppies also .

1 coreopsis
2 Nanking cherry
3 swallowtail larvae
4 prarrie onion

I used to have the rose salvia but lost mine to heat. I got kind of a periwinkle salvia with same leaf type at the same time, neglected it and it came back, saw it when I mowed on Saturday.

Photos when I'm home in daylight, rebuilding a pond today.

Well Agastache had not well here Gypsi I bet you grow those ,,
mounding phlox
lillium
Marigold sprouts
knapweed centurea

agastache looks like something I planted from a bulb that didn't come back a second year, or was that Liatris? Beautiful lily, beautiful knap weed and phlox.

sprouts are hopeful!

Here is a soggy spider poppy (1)
Coreopsis and Penstemon still blooming (2)
More Coreopsis (3)
Clematis (4)

That is a very interesting poppy Ju. And with an interesting name to boot

that is an amazing poppy Ju. Never saw one of those. Your coreopsis are beautiful. and that color clematis I have not seen either.

Thank you Both ,,
Keith "Black Swan" is the name of the poppy , one of what is nicknamed spider types ,

Gypsi " Niobe" Clematis it has varied from it's original form though

Cold and rainy weather here is causing some distortion ,

It's about to get hot here, getting a window changed before the heat is all the way on.

Another poppy
mounding phlox
lillium
daylily
Morning glory starting

Looking good Ju. I'm off and running another week. saw some sprouted squash in the garden, but no photo. It's winter squash so it will be fine.

Some doing around all the rain . which it is still doing
1 phlox which is really red not pink ,
2&3 lillium
4 catgrass
5 A perennial sunflower sprout

Spring has gotten there Ju. Very pretty.

Love the lily Ju

Thank you both ,
That is about the brightest Banana I have ever seen , (African Queen the variety ,

rainy cold day here today ,,

A couple of callas

Pretty Keith , yellow and white flowers show nice ..

here is a rockin red Dianthus

That's an eye catcher

All pretty. Callas mostly hate my house, I don't water often enough and it gets too hot. Dianthus love me, but no time to photograph, off to finish a pond rebuild tomorrow.

Visit to sisters home nets me flowers- and a rainshower! Passalong plants in the south with forgotten names. Daylilies, fragrant yellow rose, and a Nacogdoches rose named Grandma's Old Yellow Rose. And last a Clematis.

Flowers in her front porch bed, that log near the Clematis is an old bois d'arc log that just never rots. It was waterlogged, removed to dry out and rescued for her garden, chuckle

I helped her fill her garden beds thus Spring, and warned her about pesticides in the hay before it is mown. This picture is of a pepper that WAS susceptible to that product. Grazon or some such. Now she studied up on it. It can stay in the ground, pass thru cows and return to the ground...vegetable gardens have problems with it unless the plants are grasses. Says she plans on growing a bunch of corn next year to feed her cows, chuckl. Her old place on Bois d'arc Creek will be torn down soon for the new lake. The bridges are going in now.

Kitt that is horrific story about the Grazon , Really pretty pass along plants .
Ditch lilly
powwow white Echinacea
red phlox
Kankakee Mallow
little green tiny tim tomatoes

using hay or cow manure can cause Grazon to be in your garden Kitt?

Pretty flowers Ju. I love my ditch lilies and yours too. Nice phlox, I think I want to find some that color.

Wow, you guys have been busy! Lots of beauty! I WANT THAT LOG!!! That is to die for.
Was in Kenora today visiting our daughter. Thus ginormous puff ball is growing in her yard. It is 13 inches across. I think the aliens have landed

Sorry, forgot photo . See 2 posts below

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This part of our property used to be a horse pasture when our kids were young. Lasf fall and winter I built a lot of bird houses. I erected 3 in this area that were intended to attract blue birds. The one in the foreground is inhabited by tree swallows. There is another identical to it out of view in this photo that also has tree swallows. If you are able to zoom in there is one built from a hollow log just off to the left further down the hill. It doesn't have a confirmed resident however I did spot a female blue bird sitting on the roof one evening this week? I sm keeping an eye on it and hoping.
We have also taken up feeding birds year round and the results are astounding. Our daughteŕ was over for a visit on Father's Day and she commented that it sounds like Mexico with all the birds singing

Photo missing from previous post re. Ginormous puff ball

Keith puffballs are so unusual Giant like that we get a few here sometimes , Lupines look gorgeous . I have only had moderate success with growing them

only lupine that does well here are bluebonnets. Part of why I am not crazy about Texas gardening is some things just don't grow

that's some puffball

Yes, Gypsi, which is why the hay field folks like the grazon- it lasts. Well, may depend on how saturated the ground was, but can last for 2 to 5 yrs. She is planting beans to test the soil. The beans sprout, but are tender to the herbicide, so they die after they have grown a few days. When they live, the Grazon doesn't affect them as much since it has finally broken down and 'left?' Know where you get your hay and ask if this kind of product was used- you need it for gardening purposes, not stock feeding. Grasses are not affected by it at all. May actually make them look better.
Keith, that log is on its way to petrifying it is so old. I will ask her again about its condition, and yes, if it weren't for fire ants and constant humidity here, I would love those logs. Maclura pomifera, Osage orange, bois d'arc. Beautiful deep yellow internal wood, lasts for centuries and hard to kill where it grows well, can be hated down here just as much as black locusts, but it is beautiful.

A friend of mine had a wand carved from bois d'arc years ago, it was quite beautiful.

The feed store and I will have a chat about grazon.

have to bid a pond build and check an aquarium light out, then grandkid time for a few days and maybe I can upload some pictures.

Somehow I have missed the propagation thread, so hard to keep up, but loving all the beautiful flowers. Ju you really have some nice flowers growing now. Keith that puff ball is interesting.

all good Sun ,, a place to browse through ,,
sprouts
lupine
butterfly weed
foxglove
perennial sunflower
coneflower

Some flowering last is a bronze fennel grown from seed this spring , large for a seedling yearling ,,

optunia
poppy

Beautiful optunia bloom, Ju...they are pretty much done blooming here now. I don't have any in the garden, but they grow plentiful all around, especially on the coast.

sun thank you I am glad for enough sunshine for blooms ,only it is hot outside weather this spring makes one more grateful for blooms ,,