My HLWS is planted in my focal bed, right beside and in front of the front door. It is great in the winter. I'm glad I have it. I loveit.
Wanted-Harry Lauder's Walking Stick
What a nice view in the dead of Winter!
But now I gotta have one :)
JRush
where have you been hiding lol? nice to see youre still around
Yeah, I went for a couple of years before I finally bit the bullet and bought mine. I've never been sorry!
Hi Moretz - Just hibernating, leafing through the seed catalogs, & dreaming of next season's garden! What else can we do, if we cannot play in the garden? Seems I can always find another plant that I simply must have. We are hopeless addicts :)
Does anyone have a photo of their Lauder to post?
lol i know already trying to get things to go in my garden for next year lol i ALWAYS find more then 1 plant i HAVE TO HAVE hehehehehe
lol
I'm jonesing for some dirt under my nails.....at least it is fairly warm here at the moment. We ahd a really cold snap a couple of weeks ago that wiped out my flowers on my cannas, brugs and gingers, darn it. Oh well, ta least I covered my plants that were in my 'nursery area'...and the brug cuttigns I have are all looking really healthy...as are the other plants in the 'carport nursery'. Dh talks about closing in the section of the carport where I keep my nursery plants to make a screened porch....btu if he does that, he is going to have to build me a small greenhouse. LOL!
My Aristocrat pear tree is budding out... The only flowers I have right now are dandelions. Those things just wont't ever quit~
Yeah, I"ve got dandelions blooming and another unknown weed that is blooming tiny purple flowers. However, I do have to say that my pansies are still going strong. Such a nice bright show of color amongst the brown. Normally we have grren up till about mid January...but this year we had a really cold snap a couple of weeks ago and it pretty much took out most of the green stuff excpet evergreens. Heck, even some of the semi-evergreen daylilies went dormant...but a lot of the stuff is already startign to come back. Just hope it doesn't get killed when we get another cold snap.
On a positive note, my oakleaf hydrangeas are stunning.
I'd love to have an oakleaf hydrangea. Maybe before it's over with I'll have one in my yard.
I've had a heck of a time rooting these. I've tried and tried and I've managed to root a total of four of them...two that I traded last year before I realized how hard it was to root...and two that I rooted late this summer/early Fall that I have promised to my cousin. Eventually I will get the hang of rooting them and I'll be able to send you some.
You're sweet. Don't worry about sending me one. I just want one of everything... and I happen to like hydrangeas a lot :)
LOL! Me too.
Bamabelle are they hard to root layering? That seems to be the easiest rooting method. I haven't tried on the oakleaf because I don't have it yet. Just curious as to how you were rooting.
I tried root layering all summer long and never got a single root. I tried skinning the outer covering to try to force it. I tried piling potting soil on top of the layered branches between the branch and the weight holding it down...nothing worked. However, when I went to prune back the branches that I'd had on the ground trying to root layer them, I stuck some of the pieces in a pot and put the pot up under the branches of the parent plant so they would get the same sun, water, etc....and I managed to get two of the prunings to root (out of about 8). I used rooting hormone and then pretty much just ignored the pot, except to water during very dry spells. I have about 20% success rate on rooting these woody cuttings and I've had about a 10% success rate on growing pups that I dug up from the roots of the plants. I've had no luck at all with any other rooting mehtods I have tried. The only things I have not tried are using a bubbler or air layering.
Sounds like you covered the bases must be hard to propagate. Maybe that's why you rarely see it at a nursery.
They had several of them at our nursery this summer, but they were really expensive compared to the regular hydrangeas. And I have never seen them for sale at the botanical gardens sale or master gardeners sales....
I bought a Harry Lauder's Walking Stick from Wayside Gardens and planted it this fall. We call it "Harry" after Harry Potter (the primrose lilac is called "Ron" because of it's unusual colour). Anyway, I am pleased to find out that cuttings can be taken in future when Harry grows a bit :-)
Seandor