Do you know these? Help, tips, commens?!

So any tips, ideas, or comments about these would be helpfull! I have not got the seed yet so if something is a bad idea then please let me know! LOL

Hope someone knows about these! LOL

These are from seed:
For indoor plants-
Banana Ornamental (Inside plant? Maybe a bad idea! LOL)
Several differnt Coleus planted together (Inside plant, and moved outside in summer)
Stripa Ponytail Grass (Planted in a mixed plant pot around the edges inside)
Helitrope Iowa (To move outside in summer. It says it smells like vanilla)
Chaenarrihum (To add to a mixed pot)

Outside bed-
Ice Plant (Does this so into the fall like Rose Moss does?)
Zinnia
Both Giant Cactus Mix and Candy Stripe (Mixed together in a planting)
Cannas (Both 2 1/2 feet tall and 4 feet tall from seed mixed together in a group, smaller infront.)
Snapdragons (From seed)
Dianthus (From seed)

Plants:
I also have some Persian Shield, and Purple Queen which I am planing on moving inside.

I have been given some Jasmine (that the lady had planted in full shade but I am planing on putting in full sun in the corner of my yard), Iris bulbs (a mixed bad, and some she called Naked Lady not sure what they are! LOL), what I thin is grape Hyacenth bulds, Loper grass or Monkey Grass (I think she called it), Wisteria, Vinin Vinca, Day Lilies.

I also got some plants from the "save me row" at Lowe's that look like they are a grass but have Dasies growing out of the middle of them! I think it is called Gazania.

That should do it! LOL

Thanks all!

I love heliotrope though I have not heard of the variety Iowa. It is a sometimes perennial for me.
Ice plant is wonderful. Evergreen and Full sun. Spreads out but is very controlable.
I would never plant wisteria even though it is beautiful. I dont like think that grow bigger than I can handle. I have a very neat husband and he likes things to grow exactly where we plant it. LOL
Monkey grass (liriope) can spread a little too much but it does make a nice outline around beds.
Vinca can be very hard to control, depending on the variety! Evergreen and very hardy.
Day lilies are great and can be split easily into more plants.
Gazania is beautiful but is also an annual for me.

sounds like a great group of plants, good luck.
chris

The naked lady is another name for surprise lily . they are in the Lycoris family. There are several in the plant files. I don't know how they grow in your zone, here they start in early spring ,look like daffodil greens then flop over, then disappear ,then the flower stem appears about 30-40 days later, just about time you have forgotten they are there and try to plant something else there.

I agree that ice plant is a great plant. I have planted one or two and they are just beautiful. Also have some in water rooting. I have the Persian Shield planted in the ground in a shady spot. I just saw it and loved it so I bought it not knowing anything about it. It has done pretty well. Has not grown that much but has not died either. Don't think it will winter over though. And Snapdragons are by far my favorite flower in the world. Here they are considered fall and winter flowers. We plant them in the fall and they bloom awhile, kind of die down during winter and in the spring come back and bloom some more. Usually don't keep them through the summer here. Although I have some in a hanging basket from two years ago and it is still doing okay, not blooming a lot and it is in full shade. But they are just gorgeous. If I could have them all year believe me I would have a yard full.

Leslie

Well Thank you for the help!

I understand about your husband and wanting it just how he had it in his head! LOL I do that myself! LOL But plants are plants so... I was going to plant the Wisteria behind my deck so it can trail up and make a nice western shade. But I think I killed the two starts I was given! LOL

My Purple Sheild died as well! We got 1 inch of rain and the next day it was dead! SO.... I guess I should have brought it in! LOL Oh Well guess I learned on that one!

If you want Wisteria, I'd suggest trying American wisteria (W. frutescens) rather than the Asian varieties (W. sinensis and W. floribunda) which are much more aggressive and invasive (and unfortunately much more common in the trade!). American wisteria will give you the same look, but much better behaved.

Zinnias - my favorite seeds, next to Marigolds, 'cause they're so instant gratification - well, at least in the way of seeds, lol.

Seriously, they come up within days, bloom within a few weeks, totally tolerate *really* hot weather (I grew them in Phoenix during the summers). I really like the cactus variety, but be aware that they might need something to lean on - some of those edgers that are 6" tall, or other plants because they can flop. Not that it's all bad, they just go up from there... I'd say you're probably a little late in the year this time around to start them, but if you wanna try a couple seeds outside, you'll probably have some blooms before it gets cold - they do tolerate a pretty good range of temps, soils ,etc. Easy, easy, easy.

I'm currently growing the "purple" ones you always see advertised - they're really a lilac pink, IMO, but they're still really pretty - and fairly tall, about 18".

This is one of the early 'cactus' varieties from Phx - they get more spiky later. But about the same color as the purples.

Have fun!

I have some coleus plants I am planning on bringing inside. You have to make sure they don't flower-pinch off the buds- or else they'll die. As they get leggy, just pinch of the tops and plant them...they root super easy. I had six plants and now I have a gazillion. The ones I have are much prettier in the shade because it makes the colors richer, they get bleached out in the sun. I've also heard they are easy to start from seed, so you shouldn't have any problems.

I also have some cannas that have done quite well. Up here I have to dig them up in the fall and overwinter them. I'm assuming down there you will have to thin them out, because just in my growing season the bulb-thingys(I don't think they're bulbs...maybe corms or something?) they multiply. I have some planted in the corner of my house that I haven't dug up and they come back every year. I'm sure they need thinned out....I also just read somewhere on here that cannas LOVE water and cannot be over fertilized. I had some of those fertilizer sticks for potted plants that I stuck in the ground by them, and they have done way better this year. They keep producing flower after flower.....its amazing! If you are planting them from seed, you probably have to nick them and soak them in water....I tried some from seed from mine one year, and I used sandpaper to rub off the outer shell and soaked them. They grew well.

I have some dianthus that I planted from seed that were supposed to be annuals but keep coming back. They were beautiful in the spring and had long lasting blooms...until it rained, then they started turning brown and not looking very good. I let them go to seed, collected it, then snipped them off. A few have flowered again, but they weren't that pretty...kinda straggly....Also, some of the leaves got pretty brown. It has been hot here though. Other than that, they were great in the spring, and they smelled like lilacs.

Hope this short novel helps a little....

Kristie

That is helpful! Thank you!

All though I am not sure what you mean about the Canna seeds. Why do you have to rub/nick the seed? Why can't you just plant it?

Also do you know if the Hawaii Royal Agermentum (SP) will come back? Does it put off seed?

I learned first hand this year that the Celosia Cockscomb does not like me. It said it was heat dolerant and would do well in the full sun, but About Mid-June I lost some and the rest did not look great. Now after an inch of rain and 90 degree weather I have lost at least 3-4 more and they look much worse! LOL

Although I do have heads, and they are covered with seed! LOL Not sure that is a good or bad thing!

Also does Vinca (Some call it periwinkle) Come back?

Is Canyon right outside of New Braunfels????????? The reason I ask is because New Braunfels is in zone 8.......................

There are a lot of seeds that have a hard outer shell that would normally be damaged by nature that we get the pleasure of damaging - I think the technical terms is scarifying - you can nick the outer shell with a nail file, a lower grade sandpaper, clippers - anything that works.

You might want to take the suggestion of "full sun" with a grain of salt - especially if you live in an area that gets hot summer suns - the western sun from about 2-3:00 in the afternoon can kill just about anything if there's no relief. You also want to check your watering practices; make sure that the water is actually reaching the roots of your plants by digging a small hole after you've watered and see how far it penetrated. You might be surprised. Another way to do this, especially for trees and shrubs is to take a piece of rebar (or something as pointy) and stick it in the dirt. Where it stops is also where the water has stopped. Mulching helps a lot, too.

HTH!

Yes, what Pagancat said....the seeds are big round pellets that are very hard. In nature, a lot of times birds and animals will eat them, then after being worn down in their digestive tracts they're "redeposited" on the ground amungst their very own "fertilizer". Water can't get through the tough shell to get the growing process going otherwise. I've read that the Indians used to use the seeds in blow guns......

I don't know about the Hawaii Royals...I'm not even sure what kind of cannas I have! They were given to me by my mother in law, and she didn't know what they were either. I just know they're big and red. :) I'm guessing they would put off seed though....not sure though.

Kristie

Canyon is just outside of Amarillo, in the Panhandle. We are zone 6b-7a.

I never knew that some seeds needed to be sanded! LOL I learned something new! LOL

Hawaiia Royal is a Ageratum http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/671422/ this is a picture of ones that look like mine from Plantfiles. They call them many different things but these look like mine but are a little bigger I think.

Well I know that the water is getting deep enough. I had to move some Vinca the other day and the soil was good and wet/moist evenly as deep as I dug.

I will try and get a picture tomorrow. I think my Dahlias have a dieseas of some kind or something. Something is wrong anyway.

Mmm - I wonder if your soils might not be a little too alkaline for Dahlias ... but, that's a plant I know very little about, so I'll leave that to someone else.

There's seeds that must be scarified, some need cold stratification (change in temperature), some need soaking, almost all have an optimum temperature for germination. Both an art and a science, you could say....

Here is a pic of my Hawiia Royal Ageratum. I just love it! I have hear it is a TX native, but not sure! I love it to reseed! LOL

An some pics of my Dahlias, and the sick leaves, and side that died!

Dahlias

More Dahlias.

Sick leaves.