Plant propagation discussions-April 2019

Nice to hear from you Sherri . I thought we had lost you

Thanks Keith, I do get lost at times...tee hee.

Kitt, I had to settle for this log. Texas is a long drive and I think I would have trouble at the border. Your picture inspired me to transplant this moss covered log from along side my firewood trail down by the creek to the Japanese garden. Today when my poor wife came home from work littke did she know that she was going to be part of the transplant crew. She was my other set of muscles and driver of the ATV while I balnced it on the back. She almost lost me and the log at the first narrow part of the trail but after that all went well. Not everyone has to water their log. It came from a very shady area where everything us covered in moss. There is a fair bit of shade in the Japanese garden but I think it may take a bit of watering in dry times like we are having right now

Keith, your log suits your area. Beautiful job! I can't have hostas, so I think we are even, chuckl. My sister- well, in Kansas is a county named Lincoln County. They have limestone 'logs' that were used since they had no trees. https://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/post-rock-cutting-kansas-folk-art/16558 There was an enterprising group of guys that would drag those 'posts' up and down the white rock roads of Texas to clean them, then carve into them with addresses, or names, etc. These were awesome! By the waaay, everyone drools over her log as well.

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Thanks Kitt and thank you for the link as well. Very interesting bit of history that I was not at all aware of

Keith nice looking fern and Hosta garden , Has a wonderful feeling .

Kitt Logs do have special effect gives a more real and wild feeling to a garden , A real mood effect maker
1 is a Goji berry I got two of them last week for a dollar this one looked dead , now has a lot of sprouting leaves ,
2 a toothed daylily not a real good pic
3 dahlia
4 Kankakee mallow
5 yellow loosestrife sprouts , tripling in size by day , good thing ,,,

Lots of butterfly weed a lupine sprout planting today .

I like the look of the mossy log in your fern/hosta garden, Keith. I have some ferns, they like my shade areas, one 'Sunhosta' but it has yet to flower, I might need to move it to a bit sunnier spot...trying to find happy places for plants can be a challenge.

Ju, nice flowers, I hope you get good progress with the Goji berries, I tried some seed before but I think it got too hot here for them, I'm like the hottest zone they can grow in.

Optunia, huh? that's a new one for me. oh, prickly pear. Plenty of those around here. It is way hot here and I have stuff in pots that need planted. of the 5 grandchildren one came with a stomach flu so 4 here and I'm sterilizing my house, lol

Thats a great log Keith. I don't know about logs but moss stone around here will resprout moss when it rains, go black when it doesn't, then come back. I have some moss on the aquaponic tray in the greenhouse, going to throw it in the blender with some plain yogurt and paint on some plain sandstone. Rumor has it, it will grow.

This message was edited Jun 29, 2019 1:44 PM

I have heard about that concoction for growing moss too Gypsi but have not tried it. Let ,me know how you make out with it

Great story about the moss Stomach flu kiddies ,,,messy ,,,usually

Goji usually have to be a few seasons old before they will live outside here ,

Bee Balm
butterfly weed
early sunflower ,ox eye sunflower ,
Lupine
More butterfly weed

Couple of more today

The kids and I did a moss growing experiment like that when they were younger, we used buttermilk, painted on some clay pots, those pots still have moss on them to this day.

We have Resurrection Fern (Pleopeltis polypodioides) here, it grows on my garden rocks, tree bark, and the garden logs.Looks brown and dead when drought conditions, and perks right back up to beautiful lush green when it rains.

Good job on the daylily Jù

I have a fern I may try too Sun. It's been stuck in a waterfall for a while. I'm so tired. Kids are gone home, Viv helped, she potted up the amaryllis and other plants I lifted from my crowded front bed. She may continue to love gardening as she gets older. Hope so. (she's 4)

Gypsi, I think I was four when I started my love of gardening...you're her gardening mentor...♥

This message was edited Jul 1, 2019 7:54 AM

I too started off with a little vegetable plot inside the chicken fence at about age 4-6 and then shifted my interest to establishing a lawn and flower beds around the farm house around 10 -12. First mower was one of those antique rotary jobs and when my parents saw how serious I was about having a lawn they bought me a gas mower and then it just expanded from there. I would work in the hay fields until everyone else called it a day and then I would cut my grass and look after my flowers until dark. My parents never had to do any of that work until I left home. By then I had so much area growing grass that they went out and bought a rider LOL.

Moss yes it will spread that way, faster in rainy weather. Garden still hanging in there a bit, cucumbers have slowed and the deer returned, we gave a bunch away, but I made dills, and roasted the excess tomatoes for sauce to freeze.

well here is a pale coneflower and Monarda , I have two plants that grow together for my carpet blooming attempt in a rain garden style ,, well ,it's a start ...lol

oops the pic

very nice Ju. I love Monarda, I just wish it bloomed longer. Maybe 2 weeks then wait for next year.

Gypsi Hummingbirds have been visiting mine the past few days

I am going to try a few plants I have to match those two ,

Planted a bag of zinnia the lazy way- am waiting to see if it stays too wet for them. The week promises enough rain for floods

Kitt My Zinnia are growing but as to if any of them make it is another story , Weather held me back several weeks ,
My Liatris are starting to bloom ,Some of the Michigan lillium are developing blooms ,as to if they do bloom ??

Lettuce got sun cooked some of my chard wilted Tomatoes still developing ,

Great looking tray of apples there Kitt, little kitty looks cute next the the bigger kitties.

I'm enjoying all the flowers, those didn't last long here this year at all...got way too hot way too fast.

My Angel tree boasting another bout of blooms, this one loves the heat.

Sun pretty ,, I will post up pics later or more like in a while

Sun, those are roasting tomatoes, not apples, chuckl.

Ju , that is a nice combo. Enjoyed the Angel Tree blooms Sherri. That is a new one to me

This message was edited Jul 3, 2019 7:53 PM

Thank you Keith, I hoping some of my fall planting lives to make that nicer There is a couple lillium on a rise just behind the Monarda I am hoping they get tall enough to show .

Sun Datura Angel Trumpet ?
Some blooms today

Nice blooms Ju, but I don't see a datura??
ATV trip into the wilderness today. Photis from that.
1. Wild rose patch. I apologize for this picture. I should have taken it in the morning when it was cloudy. When we came back too much sun and photo is all washed out
2. Elderberry. There were many in this area
3. Don't be surprised if you see this hollow log in my yard full of succulents some time in the future. No room to bring it today. Darn!

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY all my southern friends

Keith Thank you , love the fireworks here only not a big fan of revolution , lol
I was actually asking Sherri if that is what her angel tree is ,,
Still really hot here ,makes it difficult to get the projects and play done ,,

Sorry Ju, that was one of my senior moments. Thanks for clearing that one up! LOL looking back it looks like it may be a datura or Brugmansia

Keith all good I forgot to complement your pictures and that interesting log , That log looks big to carry around !

Angel trumpets 'look' down, Devils trumpets 'look' up. ' grass is greener on the other side' type thing. Datura, Devils trumpets.
Zinnias are coming up. Cleaning more of the garden up and out. Logs here are full of problems, rocks sink thru the sand- water runs under ground causing sinking issues. Feels hotter than it is outdoors, but the cats love lazing on the front porch.

Keith , I don't express myself real well either when typing here ,, so , all good , read distortions are everybody , anytime,
Kitt my zinnia will be a few weeks Cats always finding a shady place to chill and stretch , long zzzzz
Echnacea
red Volunteer seedling daylily
Monarda
Milkweed
Red Volunteer Daylily

Dianthus Rockin red still blooming
Pink Threadleaf coreopsis
Another red daylily
1/3rd of my seedlings

I only have a few minutes

one of the 18 lily bulbs I bought bloomed. Not a stargazer, will have to look up the variety later.
John Fannick Phlox
Asclepius Tuberosa
Dragonfly
Waterlily.

Found out tomato hormworms will eat vitex, going to have some pretty moths. I was pruning the vitex yesterday when a big fat worm fell out.

Gypsi Bright cheery flowers , colorful dragonfly , Nice Giant swallowtail on the phlox too

Couple of daylily this morning

you sure have some daylily colors. Mine are all orange, lol.

Really liking that green lily