Well we had straight line winds from the hurricane Sunday and my plants are a mess! My red shield hibiscus blew over I just hope they are alright to bloom those puppies are so big! We were out of electricity for three days so had to cook out a lot that was kind of nice three of us got together on that, the hardest part was trying to find ice with the stores being closed, I finally came up with four bags of ice just before the electricity came back on lol Trees everywhere were down and uprooted and the schools have been closed all week, they declared us a natural disaster. We were suppose to get rain Sunday night but got the winds instead and no rain in the forecast for the next week but it‘s going to be beautiful out :) I’ve been picking up the yard all week and helping the neighbors out. I didn’t have it so bad here but a lot of the neighbors had trees on their houses! I may have lost more shade in the shade garden a big old limb fell out of the tree down there :( My castor bean plants are history now too and I haven’t had one mole this year so I will be growing those again this year, it was soo nice not to be stepping on the mole hills all summer and not to have them in my beds! I didn’t save any seeds from them though I was too worried about the kittens with them but I still have some seeds from last year.
Seandor , your indigo will be fine and that is normal :) I have some that reseeded from last year and they are the same height, next year they will get taller. They probably won’t bloom until 2010. 2010 OMG! LOL
Those little weevils are starting to come out of my hibiscus seeds already! I was cleaning seeds last night and had all kinds of them in my box, I just wonder how many I have in the house I had the box sitting on the shelves to make sure they were dry LOL
I’m going to have pots to over winter too and really didn’t want to for this year, it’s like eating my eyes are bigger than my stomach lol I’m just running out of space to put all of these plants and I made big beds for this year!
If anyone has:
Yellow petunias
Coral Nymph
Anything red in annuals except for the tall salvias. I’m trying to save seeds from my bicolor red and white ones but it’s hard and I have one purple and white salvia that’s an annual but I haven’t gotten any seeds from it :( These annuals should be easier to save seeds from LOL
I’ll have more sea holly seeds like I had last year for the ones that couldn’t get them to germinate for this year, just remind me and I’ll send you several so you can start them different ways :)
Tcs, those Gaillardias have those fine sticky hairs that get into your fingers, I have them in my fingers right now LOL I’ll save you more sea holly seeds, it’s hard to believe they didn’t germinate I have them everywhere from reseeding lol
On the bronze fennel when they turn brown and have those white lines in them then they are ready to be harvested, mine are still yellow right now.
My candy lily seeds are starting to burst open now and it‘s so hard to keep the kittens off of them! That is one of their favorite plants to play in LOL
Wind, does that small blue MG have ivy leaves on it? I had one like that I grew a few years ago and I’m still pulling a bunch of seedlings out from it, very invasive! I have some in between some tricolor grass that I can’t get too that is blooming so I will have more seedlings from that one in there again lol
La, I haven’t grown the veronica that I have from my seeds but I would think veronica would come true maybe someone else on here will speak up or ask Tuink when she gets back from vacation maybe she will know, I only had the one veronica when I collected seeds last year, I’m trying to collect seeds off of a pink and white one that is new this year but the flowers aren’t cooperating so far lol La, in the picture they show little blue lines in the flower of that veronica and that was what I was looking forward to when I first grew it but you can't see them! That darn flower is too small lol These catalogs are so missleading!
