Plant propagation discussions-April 2019

I am enjoying the thread and chat ,
Gypsi love the truck the flowers ,,

Kitt ,, yes it gets hot ,, too much effort for blooms sometimes ,

Peak of lily season. These are right outside the living room window. So nice to look outside with a morning coffee and check to see what opened up overnight. Will sure miss them when they are done

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That toffee sounds better than coffee right now. Brilliant lilies.

Thanks Gypsi and thanks for pointing out the toffee slip. LOL

Toffee is very good.

A patch of Zahara Sunburst Zinnias

Wow, Kitt, you need to put that photo in the photo contest, great capture of the two kitties.

Keith, thanks for posting the canna lily, gorgeous garden you have, enjoying the photos. I was going to ask what the white flowered plant is behind it, what a beauty, and love that bird bath too.

Gypsi your garden is really bursting with flowers, and loving the butterflies. Lazy dog days I see, my dog sleeps like that in the summer.

Ju, great pics of the flowers, but I really like the Zebrina Mallow and the peppermint Zinnia.

Phlox grows well here in FL, there is some different native, but more commonly grown on roadside that bloom in early spring is Phlox drummondii, I love to take drives and admire it in the spring.

My little water fountain, hoya, Euphorbia geroldii (thornless Crown of thorns) and last is my dog (Bear) looking in at me sitting on the porch.

Keith ,, love the lillies ,, zinnia are always eye catching .

Sun pretty ,Summer phlox is wild here , Like dog watching looking in , cute ..

Ju, I knew you would like the zinnias. Nice hoya and euphorbia Sherri. The white plant you were asking about is Giant Fleeceflower, Persicaria.

Vampire kitty, Ms Warbeast is marking the jugular while pretending it doggy spa day. Late zinnias still making the effort. Bees of every flavor but honey on the African Blue basils.

That euphorbia bloom is really pretty Sun, and your pup looking in is so cute.

Love the doggy spa day Kitt, and the caption of marking the jugular.... She's still a vampire?

I moved 3 chickens back to the lot yesterday, now that bees are quieter, sold off the hot queen and her minions to someone with 20 acres and a good bee suit and 2 sets of eyes to find her and end her reign. Felt like a nap yesterday afternoon so I went outside and cleaned up and repaired the chicken run. I'm less sleepy outdoors as long as I'm not driving. (I try not to drive during my afternoon sleepiness)

Pics later, have a crew due here soon

Days make me sleepy no matter what, I can't read til its dark outside and chores don't keep intruding. Have gotten up and grabbed a 30 min power nap quite often. I bought round steak milanese and got Kim to cook it. Had to teach her how, just flower salt and pepper and fry in the cast iron til brown. Flavor was so good. I didn't know milanese just means thin. Mashed taters, gravy from the leavings in the skillet, and steamed broccoli with a good salad of romaine and spinach with carrots, orange lunchbox peppers, red onion, baby beets, boiled egg, celery. Haven't had a good round steak and cut up into fingers since Years ago.
Owch, Ms Warbeast likes to dance on my shoulders after leaping from the dressers, or climb up my side and ponytail to sit on my shoulders. 3 months old and I am getting ready to have her shots and spayed soon. Yes, she still has moments where she heads for the jugular and sucks her tongue, or washes the others, and I laughed so hard the other day. She has the tiniest bare squeak for a meow, but you spook her and you would think a lion was growling. Deep loud growl that sounds like is coming from her purr. Scary growl for such a tiny squeaky meow. I am in here, occasionally I get time to sneak in a thread read, but no time to post. Over did the sanding project and just realized the icy hot is gone, oh well. Plant prop thread, chuckl, hoping the iris survive, considering starting lettuces and another younger cuke vine since the others were pulled a week ago. Hearing about El Paso and Ohio, sad stuff..

I'm looking at 10 days of 100 degree weather. I want to cut my chrysanthemums back as having trouble getting water to their tips, plus that will get me more blooms, they bloom late September and early October, even after frost, and the monarchs like anything with nectar. But I think I'll wait til the moon moves into Taurus and I get some better potting mix before I take the cuttings.

The mums from stores aren't winter hardy but these really are. I've had them for years, I think I got a little discounted pot at Ace Hardware for 50 cents. Now I have a couple of pots and a big bunch by a little pond

Gypsi, Nice looking Mums, I had some like that once, they lasted many years. That euphorbia isn't real cold tolerant, this is the fullest it has been in a long time, usually gets set back a bit from a freeze. Glad you located the Queen bee and the rest are quieted down now.

Keith you have some great plants that grow up there, thanks for the ID.

Your cast iron steak sounds good Kitt, we use our cast iron everyday, I've learned how to cook just about everything in it. My little gray kitty Izzy has a teenie sweet meow also, but she can growl loud at the boys and still doesn't like Kit Kat. Yes, the El Paso tragedy was heartbreaking.

Last week I got out and did some major trimming and hacking at the Jungle, all this rain has things growing out of bounds, discovered lots of seedlings coming up and potted some up to give away. Grandson starts school next Monday, my son and his wife have an out of town business thing this weekend, so I'll have him Friday and Saturday, don't get to do that very often, looking forward to some kiddo fun.

This is Izzy, a tiny little thing, about seven or eight years we've had her, son found her on college campus when she was a kitten.

I need to attempt my cast iron dutch oven again, I got instructions on how to clean it over on NGA I think, and then I went off to work, and haven't touched it. I microwave a lot and use my induction cooktop with steel pots.

School already. wanted to take a trip with kids but we couldn't get schedule together, I worked most of July... maybe this fall.

Pretty kitty is miss Izzy

no rain here but I have smooth blue aster popping up in my watered flowerbed, I am post the pot them up stage now. I left one large plant and i am pulling and tossing the rest on the compost

A couple shots from today

Nice Keith summer ablaze with color ,

Gypsi , I haven't had mums that would perennial in years now , Nice red ..

Sun Izzy is a cute one . .

I am reading through hear working on next year already, and as always ..

A few more from today. Lazy day in Oxdrift and lighting is good

Keith , That all looks gorgeous , Those Coleus are real eye catching ..pretty ,,

Here I am kind of the wild
Cup plant

Keith, your pictures and yard always look so professional and bright. Love your pictures. Mine are always haphazard, chuckl. Mums, begonia and a few others just rot here, can't grow them. Herbs do great! Poor bees don't bother to go home, they just eat til they fall asleep in the blooms. Genovese is hard for me to grow, think it needs less heat than the Greek and African varieties.

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Wow, Keith, those pots of coleus are just amazing, and the periwinkle blanket...geez I'm moving to Canada. tee hee.

Nice peppers Kitt, what are they, are they edible or ornamental? I love African basil, bees love it too, I didn't grow any this year.

Ju, love the bright yellow flowers.

I must admit my garden is pretty classical "Hodge Podge" many trees that were here when we moved in to work around, so plants go where they can squeeze in between tree roots. My problem is too many plants and not enough room. I'm a Plantaholic...sigh.

Some Bromeliad blooms the first two are over 20 inches tall and will last for months, hummers love them, last photo is my coleus under a tree in a pot.

Thank you all. Beautiful peppers Kitt. And Sherri your bromeliads are stunning.

Sherri, you had me scratching my head as to what you were calling a periwinkle blanket in my photo so I went out and googled it. Found that is what we call vinca here but I don't grow those. You must be referring to the impatiens. There are 2 different varieties in the photo but they are hard to tell apart. In the 2 pots are Tumbler Scarlet and on the ground are Accent Premium Deep Orange. I buy a package of 250 seeds of the deep orange variety. What you see in the photo is one of 2 large patches. The other isn't doing quite as well.

You are starting impatiens from seed Keith? I am impressed.
I used to try that, gave up on even buying them as annuals after I moved west 20 miles and ground is too hard and dry.

Vinca here is getting root fungus if too moist, I picked up 4 at Lowes last weekend, (discount orphan rack). 2 are dead, one is looking wilty when soil is moist of the remaining 2, so I dumped some peroxide in them. They like a bit less water I think, the ones I got my daughter that get top watered with good drainage are doing better than the ones I planted here this spring. My dianthus have mostly lived but I think all my planted vinca are all gone, I flood water a couple of times a week, deep soak, and they just don't like it. The ones I bought are for daughter's flowerbed.

Those peppers and basil are pretty Kitt.

I have dianthus and phlox blooming now, lilies, cockscomb celosia with its long lasting blooms, echinacea and salvia, that's about it, pretty hot for everything else.

crinum lilies, cockscomb celosia, sun faded echinacea, my sunbleached rose, and I think that's a little red dianthus down below it

Pretty blooms Gypsi.
Yes I seem to have amazing success with impatience from seed. The seed company must be a little generous in their 250 packs as I usually get more than 250 plants. This year I got 258.
I have to monitor my menopausing wife to make sure she doesn't turn the heat down below 70 upstairs. She snuck that by me a couple years ago and I had a complete crop failure with the Tumblers. The basement where my seeding plant stand is located is considerably cooler but if we keep the upstairs above 70 we seem to be OK. It wouldn't be consistently that cool because when the wood heat is on it is considerably warmer.

A shot across both patches of deep orange Impatiens and a better specimen of Canna Cleopatra

Here I am COLD until the a/c says 76*. Sun, I cannot believe you have no memory of a Tabasco peppers! The deep south puts them in a jar and uses them in place of black pepper. A splash of the pepper sauce goes on black eyes, collard greens, etc etc etc. Or you will see them in a tiny red jar of hot sauce ( mixed with Cayenne peppers) and set on every diner table in the south and served with a pot of red beans and cornbread!

July 26th flowers. And butterflies, Tiger swallowtail, black swallow tail, first monarch of the late summer. And Today's spiders. Those 2 orb weavers are less than a foot apart, contesting for a great spot between hives and the pond by my shed.

one of them was on the front of a hive a week ago but I think the pic was not as good

Keith, sorry,...yes I knew they were impatiens even when I typed that, sorry I do that often between the two plants (senior moment), the flowers are so close looking. I'm amazed you grew that from seed. Years ago impatiens readily re-seeded in my garden like crazy, but for some reason they don't anymore. For about four years we couldn't even get seeds or live plants here in Florida , they were banned due to some kind of disease.
Vinca aka: Periwinkles re-seed here in FL, they love our sandy soil and hot sun, they pop up in the strangest places, I have some pink growing in the crack of a stone planter with no soil at all. If you look closely at this pic behind the big bromeliad bloom you can see the Vinca growing on the side of the planter, that plant is three years old now.

Gypsi, great pics, and nice close up of the Golden orb spider, they are abundant here in FL too. Yes Vinca doesn't like wet spots and gets a fungus in the nurseries often from overwatering, I feel like it they live long enough to make it the the death rack and still look good, they're good to buy.

No problem Sherri, I have my share of senior moments too!

Nice to see all the color and life in the garden ,
Keith really pretty colors ,

Gypsi , ooooh spiders ,,

Hollyhock seedling
a couple of zinnia
A couple of incarnarta milkweeds

Thanks Ju. My incarnata milkweed have yet to seed. The pink ones I have are seedlings my daughter gave me from her garden. I also gave a yellow and orange one that I bought last year but no self seeding yet unless I have pulled them out as weeds LOL

Most of plants are new plants or seedlings this year ,

The incarnata are white ,, "soulmate and Milkmaid " the variety ,, I have a pinkish red in the back garden , it is not doing well ,,
Most of the butterfly weed tuberosa are orange , I have seen them in red or yellow ..
Here are a couple of perennials I am still trying to get watered and sealed in
Variegated Loosestrife
Lupine (unknown variety
Malva sylvestris .
Chocolate Joe pye weed also not shown , and an Azeala not shown ..

That's a nice healthy looking variegated loosestrife. Mine doesn't look very good. Think it is too crowded. Bought it late last year when gardens were already planted and got stuck in a tight corner so may need to be moved

Keith That one gets half day early sun and likes watered , earth about the same as Lupine , And I always mean to say thank you but I seem not to ,, You always show a bunch of enjoyable plants and flowers that look to delight ,

My pleasure Ju. Tending my yard and sharing the results is very gratifying to me. It keeps me going. Without that I would never be the happy retiree that I am. LOL

Thank you to all of you, these are just beautiful!

I sure enjoy seeing everyone's garden flowers and other creations. Keith, you're right about retirement, I've always loved gardening but remember the days of working and raising kiddos and just wishing I had more time to tend to my garden. Now I do, and love it.

new pictures coming. The Home and Garden show had a plant sale. Nothing is in the ground yet. 2 Russian Sage, 1 purple Salvia, 1 yellow daisy, 1 white and yellow daisy, and one really bright coneflower, going to be almost magenta. I would give better names but I don't want to let the 100 degree heat into my house. Called my daughter and told her I was sending her a bunch of orange daylilies to make room