la la jane
i love your pixie sized lilies..i must get some bulbs for next year
pam sue
Cottage Garden Seed Swap & Chat #13
La, I am wondering if that isn't a datura? It reminds me of those wild cucumber weeds. I hope I am wrong. : (
Changed cocumber to cucumber. : )
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La, maybe there was a bloom there and you just missed it cause that really looks like a seed pod, maybe someone else will come on and say something? lol
It's bloomed, so I do know it's a dat, and the place from which it bloomed looks nothing like that big fat spikey cannon ball. It kind of reminds me of one of those mid-evil spikey balls that the barbarians flung around at the end of a chain. LOL!
TY Pamsue. This is my first year to really get into lilies thanks to Neal's co-op and I have to say I really got some pretty ones.
Oh good I am wrong here is a pic of the seed head of a Datura. http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://pics.davesgarden.com/pics/Xeramtheum_1153768053_977.jpg&imgrefurl=http://davesgarden.com/guides/terms/showimage.php%3Fdid%3D4254%26tid%3D680&h=324&w=335&sz=28&hl=en&start=8&um=1&tbnid=rsWO_ytkE5UZyM:&tbnh=115&tbnw=119&prev=/images%3Fq%3Ddatura%2Bseed%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1T4DKUS_enUS250US250%26sa%3DN
Meredith you rock! I'm not exactly sure what I'm supposed to do with/about it but at least I know no one is going to torture me with it in the middle of the night.
OK-here is the sdeal w/ the seed pod-you have to wait for it to get HUGE and pretty much fall off on it's own, then pick it up and allow it to turn brown...then break/cut it open and get the seeds-they are a pain the arse to get out cuz of the prickleys, but that is a seed pod...it will take a couple weeks for it to mature....it sould be about the size of a med size egg when mature...
I could not get my corn cockle to grow for the life of me-it would germ, then die...please tell me what you did...
Seandor, I've had tatula and inoxia daturas to reseed like crazy but not any other daturas, where I have mine this year I'm hoping they are going to reseed I have that verbena bon. down there too, I know that will reseed no question about it lol
Did I goof? I got some of the Rudbeckia Tiger Eye and I thought it was a perennial. Now I wondering if it is, cause I was gonan get the see dplanted so it would bloom for next year and the seed arrived with no directions and when i went on line can't find out if it an annual or perennial. Anybody happen to know which it is?
It's an annual Star:
http://www.ngb.org/gardening/varieties/variety_details.cfm?VID=298
I have the same problem, I have a few rudbeckias and most are annuals but I can't plant them until I get my middle bed cleaned out, they will still bloom but it will be late :( I have had mine planted though, not sure about planting them now.
Thanks for the scoop on the dat seed pod Fairy. I visited my brother a couple of weeks ago....maybe Lea was right and there was a bloom that I missed. Will I have one of those pods every place there is a bloom? Should I pinch to prevent them or do I want to let pods form like that?
Sorry, I don't recall doing anything special with the corncockle, just basic care as far as I remember. I wonder how long they'll bloom and if I should dead-head. Off to plant files I go....
Well fudgescicles. Guess I will put the seeds in the fridge til January.
How despressing. I was so excited to get them started. Now I gotta see if I can find some other rudbeckia besides Goldstrum to plant that as pretty and full.
Thanks for the infor Lebug, sure glad I asked at the last minute. I would have a bunch of seedlings up and they would be croaking before they even got to blooming.
Go me a tray of peaches and dream and appleblooms hollyhock seeds up thta I planted three days ago, so I guess I have to be happy with that.
Oh jeez. I gotta go out in a minute and see if I have a veggie garden left. I had to put my companion of 15 and 1/2 years down yesterday and I sitting here with the backdoor open getting some fresh air and see one of the folks down the street dog running through my beds. Trying to get some pants on to go after it, and then see a small critter following it. Thought it as a dog but nope, it a darn pigmy pig. Hope he ain't ate all my veggies. AGGGGGGGGGGGG
I need some ideas if anybody thinks of some for perennials that nice big full lots of foliage and blooms and that wil take the heat and drought and have blooms that wil last a long time.
LaLa-each pod has got easily 100 seeds in it-I saved about 10 of them, and cut the rest off-about once every 3 days I took a can and some scissors out and cut them off-yes-1 pod for each flower..
Starlight, you may want to try Alstroemeria (inca-lily). It becomes big and bushy and will flower all summer long. It can take quite some heat and drought as well.
Looks like it's going to be a very dull autumn. All my autumn flowering plants are in bloom already. Like helenium, for instance......
La, I try and cut some of my pods off of my tatula and inoxia if I don't I have 1,000 seedlings for the next year on the others I don't know.
Star, so sorry to hear about your companion was it a cat or a dog? After having them for so long it's so hard to say good bye :(
Well, yesterday I broke down and bought (yes, bought!) some rose-flowering impatiens for part of my front garden.
I had great success with the viola seeds I received in the swap - and planted those in the garden. Then, I had all these nemesia plants (didn't even know what they were!) so I interplanted those amongst the violas. Then I had these salvia that needed a home . . so in those went. And to top it all off, I had baby daylily plants planted amongst all this stuff. What I got was a huge mess of plants that was impossible to weed. It looked horrible.
So, yesterday afternoon I spent four hours tearing everything out. I planted the impatiens about 18 inches apart and planted blue violas in between.
It really looks quite nice . . . the impatiens look like miniature roses :-)
The baby daylilies were moved to another part of the garden as were the salvia.
Isn't it funny how we are complaining how we need to get these seedlings in the ground and then we go and buy MORE plants LOL We are TRUE Plant A Holichs!
I bet those inpatiens are really pretty!
Hey everyone! Star, so sorry to hear you lost a beloved companion, big hugs and I hope the pig chase didn't do too much damage!!
Spent about 5 hours in sis's yard (her name is Jean, by the way, LOL) yesterday. Did a bunch of weeding, pruned some wildly overgrown azaleas, then planted elephant ears I'd started for her, some blue salvia, snaps, rose campion, blue delphinium, celosia, double cream hollyhocks, clasping coneflowers, agastache, canna, and my one lone geranium in a nice pot next to her other geraniums. Finished that up about 2:00 as it was too darn hot to do any more. I've promised her I'll get her back yard into shape this year, so it's a trip a week for a while to keep working on it (she's paying for my gas and feeding me in exchange for my time - even steven as far as sisters go). Here's a pic of it from a couple years ago from her upstairs balcony. The pool is being filled in for a koi pond and hot tub, the grasses are all gone (she hates them), and all the evergreens except for the 3 colorado spruce and the little clump in the middle were killed in last year's drought (she lost about 30 arborvitae, and easily 100 yews that were around the outside of the fencing). They've not had time to deal with that lovely brick path, so right now you can't even see it for the weeds and grass. The gorgeous fountain is still there, but a puppy chewed the wiring on the pump in the winter, so it's not running right now and needs serious cleaning before it can be back up and going. The two wispy purple areas are stands of flowering plums that were planted way too close together, and have been pulled out as they were completely unruly, overgrown and dying out in the middle. The area around the gazebo is a "no man's land" right now, we haven't even begun to address that. Next time I'm down there I'll get an updated pic from the balcony so you can see how much still needs to be done.
In the meantime, that white barn you see out behind has had a much larger addition put on, which is where she keeps some of the thoroughbred mares that she boards. The stand of pines behind that white barn are in front of a pond, and she keeps her Katahdin sheep in pasturage to the left of that pond. Right now that pasturage is a cedar field, and she walked me back there yesterday morning before I started working and showed me the most gorgeous stand of wild Asclepias, and another gorgeous stand of wild Joe Pye Weed. While we were standing looking at the Pye Weed all sorts of butterflies were flitting about. Pity of it is, she needs to mow that so that it can be pasturage, so we're trying to figure out where to transplant some of the Joe Pye Weed and Asclepias so she can continue to have the butterflies. I took pics with my cell phone, but haven't downloaded them yet.
Today, I've decided, I'm going to tackle that front cottage garden and start getting some plants in my own yard, right after I mow and egde a lawn and weed out a border and veggie garden for a client. Then I gotta arrange for a bunch of trees to be delivered and installed for another client - I'm not looking forward to that in this weather!
Wow! That's a big job, dryad57!
Robin, is that your sister's place in Scotsburg? It sure is nice and I just can't believe she didn't like those grasses they are beautiful! I can't wait until mine get that big lol I have a lot of grasses to plant this year, need to do a lot of grass killing to plant the grass lol
That sun this year just burns into my skin, seems like it's a little early for it to feel that way, need to pick up some sun screen, I've been trying to pot some plants up today but it keeps raining off and on one of those nice steady rains when it does for about ten minutes then it quits then when I get started again it rains again but that's alright have to take the rain when I can get it this year :)
I felt so guilty cause I hadn't gotten my osteospermum planted yet and you said yours looked so good I went out and potted them up lol I still have annuals to get planted!!!!!
You are going to be busy, busy! :)
Hi! If you are interested in viewing pictures of one of the great gardens of the world, (Buchart Gardens) here is the link to the pictures we took this May.
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/869384/
That's one of the reasons why I was so excited to get into the Piggie Swap - I mean, LOOK at all the room she has - LOL! Now if we can just keep the wiggly pit-bull puppy from romping through everything....
Here's a pic of the Asclepias in her cedar field, to the back left you can just make out the purple fuzzy of the Joe Pye Weed. This was with my cell phone, so it's far from a good pic.
edited to say Yep Lea, that's the place in Scottsburg, just off 56. That shot is looking West-ish.
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oh - and she wanted to get rid of the gorgeous huge stands of grass as she hated getting rid of the dead stuff in the spring. Too much work, although it was great fun to watch the birds shop for nest building materials. That area now has buddleia, echinacea, bee balm, and a redbud tree.
dryad, that yard is so nice : ) Do you know what grasses those are? I planted miscanthus variegatus and gracillimus and now I am wondering if they will ever get as big as want them too.
I hope the beautiful grasses didn't end up as compost!
welllll......yeaahhhh.....they sorta did end up as compost. At least the dead parts that weren't taken by the birds for nesting materials. I can't really express how much she does NOT care for stuff like that, way too much work for her to whack it down, etc.
Meredith, I think that stand was probably 10 years old or so, it desperately needed dividing/attention, and she absolutely didn't want to do that. She'll work herself silly over her horses and sheep and the rest of the farm, but stuff like tending ornamental grasses sort of pushes buttons that annoy her - she loves her garden and such, but caring for the grasses to her was time that could be spent better elsewhere. She still has a huge stand by her barn, which is a different kind - looks to be like a Zebra grass (pics later if I remember....). I really don't know what kind was in her back yard, as I only saw the dead stalks - they whacked and dug them out before they sprouted. If I had to guess, I would put my money on some sort of miscanthus. (My DBIL tried to cut it back a bit - with the string cutter. Silly guy, she and I both knew that was a waste of time.) We ended up wrapping the huge dead thing in duct tape, and cutting it down with the chain saw. Then DBIL and nephew got out there with mattocks and picks and dug out the root balls....ugh...
I know, I know, it's a painful thing to know that something that big and gorgeous was removed, but it was her yard - and what the heck? She's got stuff growing there now that she really likes. She's a breast cancer survivor and my only sibling, so I figure anything I can do that will make her happy with her yard - it's gonna be done. Next up we're going to put some multi-colored picket fencing in to the right - behind the pool house (which is slowly turning into a greenhouse) and plant a garden there - which is why I'm starting even more seeds - - wheeee!!!! She's pretty much the opposite of the Illustrious Illoquin when it comes to annuals - she'll pop a few in for some color, but really prefers perennials so she doesn't have to mess with them. Next to buddleia and echinacea, her other favorites are russian sage, black-eyed susans, and the baby's breath I made her plant. For annuals she's a sucker for sunflowers and zinnias - which Suzy will remember I snagged different kinds of for her when we were sorting out seed packs. There are about two dozen popping up around her property. She also has a lot of hummers, and at least once a year one gets "lost" in their 3car garage and ends up dying from exhaustion which really distresses us (they leave the doors open during the day) so we're also trying to put up a lot of red in a completely different part of the yard to help them stay away from her garage.
If I lived near you I would have come rescue those grasses for myself lol! My DH loves grasses and I have a spot behind or new pool we want to fill with all giant stuff like that : ) I'm glad you made the client happy. That's really what it's all about : )
hey there.. I haven't kept up with this thread, but I have sown some seeds! :) I haven't been able to do much other than direct sowing for my schedule this year. But, this thread contains my latest links to my garden albums :)
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/846681/
:)
Susan
Meredith, It takes grasses about five years from plugs someone told me that sent me some and I have one of those miscanthus variegatus out front and it's taken it about that long to get as big as it is I need to start dividing it and spreading it around the yard but oh I dread it lol One thing for sure I'm not taking a chain saw to it lol
Robin, Your sister's place looks huge! Those hummers get in my garage all of the time too and I always get so scared they will have a heart attack before they get out cause they freak out so much! I have two doors open and a window and they still can't get out for a while.
Hey Susan, you have a nice place there for your hosta that's really going to look nice when they fill in :)
hi dryad :) I got your coral nymph seedlings planted out in a short border in our backyard and LeBug, I planted some zinnia seeds from you yesterday :) the green envy and the pink 3' ones from your friends garden :))))) oh and guess what? the Cherokee bean seed sprouted into a cute little seedling now, ready for transplanting! Thanks for the tip on scarifying the seed.
We are sooooooo dry here...still no rain, I'm hoping later today or tonight...fingers crossed.
I still haven't moved our unhappy summer showers geraniums from 3 hanging baskets, I'm hoping they stretch out and reach the sun so I don't have to move them. I'm still planting, transplanting and dividing seedlings :0 Suzy's little red snaps are in a border in front of English Wallflowers and green amaranth seedlings (that I suspect might not turn out green because their stems are a deep pink color) ... planted in the back of our pink hibiscus bed.
Weez's mizuna greens going to seed, we have been cutting some for salads practically every night :)
We have like 35 mh winds today so I won't get much done today other than watering, watering and watering lol I need to transplant a bunch so I won't have to water so much, a lot are growing out of their pots, a few more weeks and I should be able to get the biggest part of my perennials in the ground in my middle bed that is causing so much trouble, I sure hope so anyway.
I'm wondering how tall those wallflowers are going to get about 24" maybe? And it will be alright to plant them in part sun you think, anybody no one in particular lol I saw someone say on here maybe Suzy that they didn't like full sun here, I need to wipe some mex. pets. out so I can plant some more plants agains the house, they were nice while I had them, just not worth the space they don't even start blooming until July or Aug. they aren't blooming yet just green they tend to crowd everything out too!
Wind, don't expect that Cherokee bean to grow very fast, mine was planted a while back and still is about the same size! It is getting a little fuller though, that should be a perennial for us so that's the ony reason I'm not yanking it out lol I don't have the patience for slow growers lol I planted some morning glories in a couple of butterfly bushes too and they don't seem to be growing very fast must be this darn dry weather, it's been looking like it's going to storm all day and not a drop of rain :(
We have the look of storms here too and so far nothing either!
I planted another ceramic pot combo today: Job's tears in the center, petunia blue around the edge with a few nolana's, I'll post a photo when the flowers start blooming.
Our first ensign blue bloomed yesterday in a hanging basket and our first nolana today in a ceramic pot with the lilac petunias and the ornamental oregano!!!!! I really love the nolana :)
This is our one and only lavender poppy from seeds from the swap :) The seeds were in a cute little envelope pkt...I think from Mazomom? I hope it blooms....never had any poppies here yet! We also have ONE red poppy from Weez that made it and several from PamSue that I hope make it. I guess they will all bloom next year possibly?...not sure.
ps....on a personal note smokers....please consider to try quitting.....a very close friend of ours died tonight from Lung Cancer....
Wind-why don't you come stay with me for the summer and smack me everytime I reach for one-that would probably work!! I have some seeds for a lavender poppy, but didn't get a chance to sow ANY of them...I do have Royal Wedding that I got last year and it gets huge foliage on it every year, but no blooms...does anyone know why???
Well folks, I have started summer sowing stuff - it's a sickness. Did Veronica Sunny Border Blue (first bunch died when I went to Canada) Now have a gazillion germinating seeds in the basement under lights!
Seandor-where are you-no fairy garden swap????? I don't think we will ever be done with our seeds!!LOL
Well, I don't actually have a fairy garden - and I am not sure where I would put one, if a fairy garden is an itty bitty garden with itty bitty plants and things. I like the idea of an enchanted garden - does that work?
Some are putting them in large pots, birdbaths, saucers....things like that-you have to at least check it out:) Lurk and see:)
hi everyone:) hi Fairy :) I guess Royal Wedding is a poppy?
It is still DRY as a bone here...watering is exhausting me...it looked promising for a storm once again tonight and as usual, you could count the drops that fell.
divided up a winter sown milk jug of blue vervain tonight and planted it out finally and planted another lilac petunia in a combo pot with Critter's ornamental pepper :)
PamSue's Scarlet Magma coleus
Yes ma'am it is a poppy...
do you have it in full sun?