Plant propagation discussions-April 2019

Sherri I agree Keith , Exotic and pretty ,,
1 Common Milkweed
2 tuberosa Milkweed
3 Soulmate incarnata milkweed
4 Milkmaid incarnata milkweed
5 Monarch , on the fence waiting

Ju, nice looking milkweed, and Monarch.

LOL, to Keith. great photos here of Hairy balls milkweed. ;-)
https://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/61453

https://garden.org/plants/view/117131/Hairy-Balls-Gomphocarpus-physocarpus/

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I had a tillandsia live for about a year once, never got it to bloom, is there a secret Sun? oh and the bromeliad is stunning

Thank you Gypsi,
Tillandsia brachycaulos, is mounted on a piece of driftwood that hangs in a bright filtered mostly shade area, I really don't do anything to it, but if we're having a summer stretch of no rain, I'll pour rain barrel water on it. I do take it in the porch if temps are going down below 40F. It is really easy to grow, love humidity.

well mine was growing on a plastic skull in the bathroom for a long time, (halloween sale at home depot) but when the grandkids quit coming I guess the humidity went down, and or I overwatered trying to compensate.....hmmm more research required.

Ju your milkweeds are going gangbusters. Only one I can get to germinate and do well is asclepius tuberosa

1) a piece of this years planting of my 40 foot planter wall. This is the 15th year for this structure, built for Tennille's wedding in 2004
2) Sunbuzz sunflower etc in the cast iron cauldron on a stump
3) Tumbled Scarlet Impatience etc

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Keith Your Garden art and flowers are spectacular !!!

Gorgeous Keith, just gorgeous

Good work Keith. Everything looks so fresh and clean. Everything here is totally dusty.

Some seedlings goings on here

Sharon Hello there
1,2,4 Blanket flower
3 butterfly weed
5 Lupine

Some flowers around the place

Beautiful flowers JU. My mow and blow guys were here today and did a terrible job. I have no idea what I am going to do. I had tomatoes from the garden tonight and they were delicious. Found a large tomato worm. I will take my blue light out tonight and see if he any cousins hanging around.

Wow Keith, I agree everything looks so crisp and clean, like the cover of Better Homes and Garden. Is that Tropical Canna in the middle photo? I have been having such trouble finding a happy place for it, thinking too hot this year for it.

Ju, I love all those big bunches of flowers, those are the kind I can only get to last from late winter to about mid spring, and then they die out. So I enjoy seeing yours.

Some tropical blooms around my garden, the large Tillandsia by my feet I won this past weekend in a raffle at our monthly garden meeting, it is a native Tillandsia fasciculata, will get a big bloom on it.

Thank you all. Very nice flowers Ju and love those tropicals Sherri. If you were asking about the Canna in the centre if the cauldron Sherri that is Cleopatra. There is one starting to bloom in the ox cart. Will try to get a photo in the next day or so

Sherri I love the Tropicals .

Keith we will forward to seeing more ,

Ju the leaves on your blackeyed susans are different than mine, look almost like echinacea leaves. Of course I've got 2 different plants with BES blooms in my yard one with fuzzy leaves and one with smooth that I used to think was a weed. (wildflower mixed seeds cause my confusion, lol)

beautiful tropicals I can identify none of Sun. And Ju all of your day lily varieities! I didn't know there were so many. Good that you got a lupine to germinate. I have the worst time getting those to grow

My tropicals above left to right, Weeping blue ginger (not really a ginger but of the spiderwort family) Dichorisandra penduliflora, Pink Jacobinia, Curcuma Ginger, Tillandsia fasciculata, and last is Bromeliad Billbergia pyramidalis, know to locals as the hurricane flower, since it blooms around hurricane time.

Keith look forward to the bloom of Cleopatra. You must have some nice weather there right now.

Sun Nice plants

Gypsi first pic BES leaf closer up .
2 and 3 are suppose to be Gaillardia ? look more like fuzzy echinacea ,
4 a very orange zinnia
5 Monarch on pink peach zinnia ,

you are right your galliardia look like echinacea, and the leaves on the BES look like my autumn boneset, not like either of my BES varieites. Good looking monarch, they blew past Texas and went north

Milkweed awaiting but no monarchs. We had one crazy early and it couldn't find the milkweed.

Keith That is a good looking incarnata Milkweed , !

Thanks Ju. Here is an orange one also.
And Sherri this is the Cleopatra Canna as promised. Lots of rain so not the best of specimens

Keith Nice orange Milkweed also , presuming it is Tuberosa Really nice color the Canna .. I agree with everyone

plants for next year (hopefully ..

"soulmate Milkweed seedling
Chocolate joe pye weed
Yellow loosetrife regular leaves
yellow loosetrife "alexander" Variegated
A new zebrina mallow that decided to bloom anyway .

That mallow is awfully pretty Ju. And Keith your milkweeds are all gorgeous. I hope to get the bees settled before my flowers burn up in the heat....

Gypsi I was reading about all your be goings on , lots of effort you do for them ,
Only a few honey bees this year here , I leave fall asters for them , lots of food before hibernation ,,
Most of my seedlings are planted , it rained for an hour here ,,we needed it ,
Lupine seedling

A few splashes of colour for today

Keith Beautiful ,,wonderful garden flowers ,
I liked the Astillbe and the red lupine in the background previously also ..

Thanks Ju but that isn't actually astilbe in the background of the previous photo. It is actually giant fleece flower. I usually know the proper name but I can't spit it out right now. Another senior moment. They come quite frequently these days. Here are a couple more photos at various stages, It is huge. About 6feet tall and nearly as wide and the flowers just last and last and get bigger. Wee on the perennial forum says they are extremely invasive in his zone but not here I dont think. I love it where it is as it hides a big piece of the aging greenhouse. It is similar to the goats beard that I have out front except it is way bigger and the blooms last. With the wet weather we are having right now the goats beard blooms are done in a few days and then look like crap.
Latin name just came to me. Persicaria

Keith thank you I looked it up pretty plant ,,
There is also a red leaved variety for full sun ..
I will be back to watering tomorrow
Morning glory
cup plant
phlox (wild )
Zinnia
peppermint zinnia

Nice variety Ju. Suŕprised to hear that phlox is wild!

Pink Phlox( pilosa) and another one named Pinks look a lot alike, but grow native here, difference is the Pinks don't have an aroma. No I am not talking about pinks the dianthus types. Ummm also called mountain pinks, Sabatia campestris.
Waiting to see if the moles kill all the little zinnia I planted, they are still growing tho. Our heat and lack of water is getting brutal, so I love seeing your blooms up there north of me!

Keith That phlox above grows native here ,, they get as much as 5 ft tall , The one in the photo about 3 and a half feet ,.

Kitt drought or drowned this year ,, it will be back to 89 or so next week ,,

Drought or drowned, sounds like Texas. That peppermind zinnia is a looker. I have some prairie phlox that I suspect came from the native plant society as one little 4 inch pot produced a big mass of plants and blooms this past spring. I think I got the 4 inch pot in 2013. They do smell nice.

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Before and after my truck. Have a little more chrome to put back on. Not bad...
My fennel got me black swallowtails, and now they're playing in the phlox. Wulfie making sure the new rug smells like him. And yesterday's monarch

And I thought I was on the fireside chat, lol. so let me see if I have more flowers

Black eyed susan my fuzzy leaf variety.
Cockscomb celosia from seed from last year..
Echinacea and other flowers.
Better shot of blue salvia and galliaridia
And the one that didn't come through was a bogged spider lily,

Trying that spider lily again. It is a native Texas variety and I do not know the latin name.
Mockingbird stalking my feral tortie.
Feral tortie.
Zinnias on the east side of the house (significant amount of weeds too, plus peonies no longer in bloom, etc

Good job on the truck Gypsi. And I like the spider lily too

I really want to klick on a LIKE for the previous posts. Beautiful blooms one and all. Good to see ya Jim on NGA, I should look around there more than I do...been doing Thursday things, well, some of them anyway. Also back to sanding furniture- once I repair the little sander- pad fell off the metal that holds the sandpaper. Still watering a few plants, had to find a place to bury a rat the cats drug up. Ms Warbeast is 3 months old now, so will be looking to see where I can get her shots, must move to phone for pix...

Doo says if you wake me up, I am pinning you down short one. Yup the BSwallowtails are showing up. I have fits with some basils- like the Genovese that is blooming in the midst of African Blue basil and pineapple sages. Wish they would bloom. Orange Lunchbox Peppers and the Ping Tung eggplant making a comeback. Too hot to care sadly -

because the thumbnails are small I often can't see what i am uploading here, so I didn't know the tortie's head was missing, behind a leaf, until just now. ah well. Lovely kitties Kitt. Lovely butterflies

Truck is done Keith. Has an oil leak and a transmission fluid leak to get addressed but other than that and a new seat cover, it should be fine for another 100,000 or so. I do have 2 more chrome sets to put on but they aren't critical