Blooming in February

Hi Kim

Here is what NCSU had to say about the Daphne...I do have mine where it is going to get full sun 80% of the day...I would not plant it in deep shade - I think you might have issues with future flowering, part shade would be ok I bet, especially if it got am sun and shade in the pm...but I am no expert...this is my first go round with Daphne, I am just trying to make better use of evergreens in my beds this year. I was sure to deeply amend my soil though when I planted her, adding perilite, spaghum and sm mulched bark to be sure the soil drained well. Hope the link to NC helps...

Deanna

http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/consumer/factsheets/shrubs/daphne_odora.html

Plant files had some good comments too...

http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/54758/

My DD is thinking about moving into a house in Greenville with a friend. We went over there yesterday to look around the outside and you wouldn't believe the yard. The front has no grass, just ipheion everywhere! It was just beginning to bloom and looked like heaven. But we walked around and came back to the car reeking of garlic! Never seen anything like it...

Bev - well at least it might help keep out the neighborhood varmits if she plants some other flowers there with them :)~ and just think - she won't have to mow...now theres a win win

Deanna

Thanks Deanna,
My DH most fav. is evergreen. Hopefully we'll acquire more of these charmers for the garden this year.
Kim

Deanna, can you imagine digging in there? I'm thinking that we should have plenty for trading or bringing to the swap, maybe??!
Any varmit crazy enough to eat those I'd be verrry afraid of, lol! I mean, I love the flowers and they are great to have in a bed...but walking on. Not so much.

bev - roflmao thinking of bringing these to the swap and having folks say..."ewww who ate the garlic this morning" HA!

kim - I am going to try and take cuttings after it finishes blooming this year since one of the plant file comments said they were easy to propagate that way...and trust me...if I can do it...then anyone can LOL

oh, Bev, ipheion..talkin my language

Lily, my daphne is a variegated one I rescued from Lowe's near-death rack. It only gets filtered morning sun here and I do feed with bone and blood meal, compost, but nothing strong...mine does not look as good as rednyr's, but still slowly growing (they are such slow growers) and budding now. I would think in AL you might want to give it some good shade from afternoon sun?

I have some here and will add it to the list of things I need to pack my car with for you Kara.

Yep, think I'm bringing some to the swap! Ha, back at ya, lol! They'll be great as long as no one touches them:-))

Tropicanna, I'm thinking in line with you....our summer heat last year reached tripple digits. Nothing escaped wilting except roses and few hardy plants. I surely will be on the look out for sheltered area for the Daphne. Thanks.
Deanna, keep us all posted on your propagation. Those are jewels; very pricey on the market at present. And even my fav. nursery doesn't have them.
Kim

kara - laughing thinking of all us at a Lowes with clearance racks...pushing and shoving our way to getting the plants we want at cheap prices LOL You know thats how I did a whole Hydrangea bed last year! after mothers day they had Oregon Blue and one other Hydrangea they had potted in 1 gal pots for gift giving on sale for a dollar apiece! I was like you gotta be kidding...I picked up 15 of them, went home emptied out the car and went back with the truck and 4 racks were nearly gone by the time I made it back...AND lowes had upped the price to 5 bucks a piece - I guess they didn't realize the mania they created with that rock bottom pricing!

Kim wished you lived closer - you could come see me at work! Ours are running under 15 and are currently 20% off....

Under 15 for 3 gallon pot? And 20%, ahhhh, I'll have to wait 'til the gas price goes down some (unlikely), to make a trip there. lol.lol.
Kim

That is a good price, I paid more for mine on the death rack in a gallon pot...

btw red, you will have to knock people out of the way for the death rack...worse than summer clearance at the mall...people can't tell if it's something good or not, they just want on the cheap (I want cheap and good..lol)

cheap and good...I'd say that sounds like my ex but the word good doesn't fit there...oh somebody shut me up already

LOL, Deanna! ROFL already!
Kim

can you tell I am going stir crazy with sick kiddos at home....but they ARE going to school tomorrow...either that or I am LOL

I hope the little ones get to be better soon. This year the flu bugs are very bad in the SE region. So I can totally relate. lol.

There is not much blooming here in my zone - yet. But indoor? I've some. Here are brug Versi Apricot.

Kim - awesome...got anything else cooking in your GH? how big is it anyways! It sure looks like you have a ton in there...

oh lilylove i absolutly love thosebrug versi apricot!!!! what do you have them in swimming pools? great idea. they are absolutly beautiful. if only they were a zone 5 plant.... im not to good at digging up plants in the fall....very pretty thanks for posting. Ronna

Ahhhh, guess what? Zone 4-5; there are ton of brug-growers there. I mailed off some cuttingsto a friend in Illinoise this winter. She's deleriously happy, and just dmailed to tell me hers is ready to be potted in a big container. lol,lol.
I sorta gone banana over brugs last summer. So I overwintered them indoor, and had some bloomed intermittently all winter.
That was an example of a cutting that was rooted last July-August. Not all performed that way, but those vigorous growers do. Thanks all for the compliments.
Kim

Lily_love: Ooh. I do love the color of that brug.

Ronna: Most years in my neck of the woods, the azaleas are in full bloom by the end of March, and if we're really lucky, the dogwoods and wisteria peak about the same time. So down here in Zone 8, spring generally arrives right on schedule with the equinox. Wish you were here! :)
Deb

Hi Deb, I can't wait until the equinox. I can't wait to see all the Azaleas to blooms. I bet y'all have lots of beautiful native Azaleas there? In fact, I'm sure to win the bet. :-)

i remember up near Columbia me and my friends stumbled upon a huge mass of them in the woods

the flame azaleas in Western NC are my favorite in bloom

ahh well heres a sneak peek for you Azelea lovers...

My mom thinks I should cut this one down...I tell her thats why they call this my yard...I get to do what I want....LOL

How I long to see those in the wild, maybe, maybe somedays.

Deanna, it's not currently blooming, is it? Beautiful!

nope not yet...usually around end of march they start popping open and the first week of April they have me outside with the camera non stop LOL This pic was from 4-8-07

Native Azaleas on my neighbor's yard. These are difficult to find anymore in nursery. :((
Those are to die for!
I wanted to make some layering of the bushes, but the neighbor wacked them down before time. I almost cry. (this was last spring too).
Kim

for those of yall that get up into the midlands of SC around the Lexington area there is a nursery called Wingard's nursery that sells them if anyone is interested

diehrd...how you been...any more dress up lately for school! :o) my friend has been to Wingards and speaks well of what they stock...me I go the other direction normally and head to Parks in Greenwood...their gardens are very inspiring but I haven't been in a long while, hmm road trip thoughts flipping thru head.....been perusing Bluestone tonite... somebody take away my credit cards pulleease... LOL

i'm fine... on restriction for grades now... ssshhhh i'm not supposed to be on now! but otther than that its the same old same old. windards is the only nurey i ever went to when i lived inLexington, so unfortunately i hve never seen parks... only wingards... and lowes!

dhs...You're going to have all of us mom and dad types here getting to you about your grades! Maybe we can set up a plants for grades thing. Naaahhhh, you can do it:-))

Deanna I'm having the same problem. I've had to stop looking at the seed catalogs, too. Too many obsessions, so little pocketbook!

Bev - the worst part is I am going to FL in March with the kids and I have no clue whos going to come and take care of all my seedlings for the 4 days we will be gone.. anyone up for plant sitting?! LOL

My Forsythia has a few blooms popping...

DHS - I hear you on the grades - my 15 yr old is very lucky his Grandpa is a retired math teacher - he gets a lot of free tutoring several times a week -

The tutorial is extremely helpful. It's worth it if you ever consider it. DHS.
Deanna, Forsythias here too are trying burst out. Flowering Quninces though, has been in full blooms for weeks.

I saw Flowering Quince today at Lowe's, and was soooo tempted. :)

And Rednyr, why would anyone think you should cut down that azalea??
Stand firm!
Deb

deb - my mom is the very formal gardening type....she formally asks me to come over and plant for her and then proceeds to tell me where to move it 3 or 4 times LOL I remember when I lived in IN I had this HUGE lilac tree )sorry can't call it a bush it was about 15'
tall) and she came to visit and insisted that it had to be cut down by at least half to bloom properly...I didn't garden as much then so did as I was told...no blooms for two years on that poor baby...boy was I mad...it was the last time I listened to my mom about gardening LOL

HEY THE Eclipse is starting...go LOOK!

Was just looking at the eclipse.

You whacked a 15 ft lilac tree? Don't think I would have touched that. I don't listen to many people but there are few out there who know their stuff. Problem is figuring out who really knows what they're talking about. It's like my neighbors father. He owns a large tree farm in Maryland and knows what he's talking about but he prunes things way to much. I put in fruit trees and did prune them up a little but he pruned every branch off of the neighbors pear tree. LOL. Thought being to get the roots and trunk to grow. He may be right in the long run but I put in fruit trees to see some fruit not commerically produce it. LOL. He leans towards what an commerical orchard owner would do.