So What Did You Do ....

on this warm Superbowl Sunday?

Me, I potted up 50 seedlings, bush sunflower, teddy bear sunflower, nasturtiums and tomatoes. Planted some sweet cream marigold, abutilon, zinnias, chilean bell vine and wrinkled rose poppy. Came in and watched Animal Planets Puppy Bowl IV for a while (i'm good with that for about 15 minutes unless the puppies are really rowdy), then got up, went back outside and walked around the yard with a trash bag and picked up all the trash that had blown in or I had left. Came back in and watched Animal Planets Puppy Bowl IV for a while, then got up, went back outside, got my loppers and cut down all the "poke you in the eye" branches along the back of my fence.

What did you do?

X

a little more than this but not much

nursed a wicked hangover while listening to my daughter do the countdown for the puppy bowl IV most of the day, ordered seeds, played football with my nephew, repotted a few things in the GH, and contemplated how on earth the puppy bowl, first of all, can be 3 hours long, but also how it has been so successful that this is now the fourth year of the event.

I actually wish I was kidding

I love the puppy bowl! It's great for a few minutes sit down .. no I don't think I could watch it for longer than 15 minutes at one sitting. Kids, as you pointed out are nuts for it.

X

Totally missed the puppy bowl...Surely y'all taped it for me, lol!!!

Not nearly as productive as either of you, but weeded 2 whole beds and wintersowed more than a dozen jugs yesterday...Yep, yesterday I was totally in the zone:-))

I did nothing today then went to a super bowl party. LOL.

Hey X do you get abutilon to grow well around you? I thought it was to warm down here to grow that? Next question you have any left over seeds? I would just like to try them if they grow around here. Don't care color wise. I'm thinking they would grow in a fairly shady spot in the South? Might be a solution looking for a problem. LOL

Core,

I've tried growing them for 2 years now, these were the last of my seeds .. they are not easy seeds. Germination is erratic and if some do manage to germinate they don't get past the cotyledon stage before keeling over.

X

Keep me in mind should you get those to grow. I would like to see how they fair durning the summer. What I'm really looking for is plants that will flower off and on all summer but in shady spots. I grow hydranges almost in complete shade and they like that where I am. If I put them in full sun, poof, ashes would be the only thing left over. LOL. The theory is plants that come from colder cilmates can grow here in mostly shade and I doubt many people will have them growing. Problem is will they flower or will fungus kill them off.

This came from a nursery in Mt. Pleasant last February and it has bloomed, in a pot on my front steps in part sun/part shade, ever since. It does bloom less in the hot weather but it does bloom. The label said Abutalon Belle, apricot series. This one stays small, about 14". I have tried others in the ground (in shade) and killed them faster than a speeding bullet.

Thanks for the heads up Ardesia .. If I'm successful in getting one past the baby stage I'll keep it in a pot.

X

No guts no glory. You have one growing in a pot that hasn't died so that's a start. I'm thinking X knows what she's doing on the germination front. I wonder if PD can help? They sell abutilon wonder what they know??

Sent an E-mail to Plant delights. See if they e-mail me back.