My HUGE Clivia starting to bloom!
MAN! IIt needs dividing so bad! I am just afraid it might set it back---They DO like to be pot-bound. This one has been in the same pot for over 30 years and is so pot bound--you would think it cannot exist....Sure does not seem to bother it. The pot does weigh about 40lbs, though. I can hardly lift it...
First bloom on my HUGE "Maya" Brug....
My Endless Summer Hydrangia about to "pop"....
Remember last year when I posted about digging up and transplanting my KK Hibiscus?
It is now growing bu leaps and bounds! Can't wait for it to bloom in this sunny bed.....Should be a spectacular sight. Have to cage it before it sprawls all over the place...
One of the Geraniums I got at Hollies is starting to bloom..I got 3 different ones---sorry I can't remember who this one is from....
My Pregnant Onion STILL waiting to be divided! Just have not had time......
Some tall, pink Oriental Lilies.....Name????
And--some orange ones.....
My Purple Shamrock in bloom.....Love the intensity of the purple....
That's all for now---
i did have a few comments....
stormy--my orange poppy never bloomed this Spring????? Lots ansd lots of foliage, but no blooms! Hmmmm....
Also--my Candy Tuft was doing poorly this Spring....Not much bloom and stems all dried up and yukky....I gave it all a severe hair cut. need to feed it something and maybe it will re-grow.
Jill--a while back when we were talking about my Ric Rac cactus---YES! it does bloom....
The one I have now is a bit younger than the older one was. That is the one I donated away to Rawlings and it happily resides on top of a rock in their Mediterranean House....
Here's the bloom from 3 years ago....
I'm so jealous - everyone's looks stunning!! I'm playing catch up...or attempting to...will try to get some pics tonight...before we get hit with rain again. Sooo many baby brugs need potted up...ugh!!
Planted my Chalice Vine (tender) and Peanut Butter shrub last night. Can't wait for blooms on both of those!!! PB may be next year..but I'm can be patient. Very nice sized cutting rec'd in a trade....whaa whooo!!
I was up at Jane's she got that really nice brug that was on the gift table at the swap. Boy it is looking good as is the one Gita gave me. No flower buds yet but the plant is growing great.
I have a question about Forget-Me-Nots -- which I love. I still have my plants from the spring, but they are leggy and ugly. I want them to reseed, so I didn't want to deal with them too soon. Should I pull the whole plant (and if so now, or later?), or just cut it back? Or nothing?
The rose campions look really nice with your clustered bellflowers, Gita. Mine are almost all blooming now so I'll try to get a photo of them all blooming. Can't wait to see your hibiscus. I love the ones with the dark foliage.
Happy, how have you been? It's so good to see you here. :>)
Gita, how to you overwinter your Clivia?
Happy, it IS good to see you here! I'm assuming you've got the annual type of Forget-Me-Nots not the perennial? I haven't had them in years but I always used to cut them down to a few inches and just laid the debris on the soil hoping they would self sow. I would wait until the tops are pretty dry though to make sure the seeds are ready :)
Finally got a picture of the plant I mentioned a couple of days ago. Melittis 'Royal Velvet Distinction'. It's in the mint family and the foliage does have some fragrance to it but look at these sweet flowers. They're not huge, only about an inch and a half long, but larger than what I expected. Supposedly if you cut them back after flowering they will rebloom later in the season. They just started blooming so they should be ready for their pruning when I get back from Maine!
Those are so pretty!
Very pretty.
Happy, I plant Clems wherever they have something to grow UP - fences, trellises - even drain pipes! :-) If you have a large planter with a trellis - have at it
Stormy - the rose is a Rosa Velours Episcopal (if my list is correct) - for once it's not a climber
Had to come in from out in that heat. Is it sweltering everywhere in the MA?
Gita I have a Clivia that I've had for about 15 years. This one is actually a baby from the big one in my office. I split the plant in fours about 5 years ago. I kept two and gave away the others. Two years ago I left this one outside too late in the season and it completely froze. I brought it in to thaw but the mushy leaves had to be cut away and discarded. The next spring it came back and put out a nice bloom. This year it did great.
Happy--
Cut off the seed stalks of your F-M-Not and just rub them between your hands wherever you want the seeds to grow for next year. Of course--many seeds (which are close to invisible) will have fallen down right where the plant was growing (just b/c you touched the stalks) and will come up later this year and bloom next Spring. YES! The new plants come up later in the summer/Fall (it's a true biennial...) and form clumps of leaves that just live right through the Winter.
They transplant easily--either in the fall or in early Spring. Never an issue!
DO NOT dig up or pull up the old plants as there will be plenty of new plants all around it. it will look like a black, dead mess next Spring--but just bide your time....IF there is no sign of life in these dead clumps by April--just get rid of them.
flowerjen---
I have only had this HUGE Clivia for 2 years. My G-friend that gave it to me has a sun room, and they happily grow and bloom there--with almost NO care and almost NO watering.
I have no such light source--so mine just sat off to one side of a window. If I remember correctly--you are not supposed to water it during the Winter months...kind of a resting period... Then--after February--you start up as normal. I put mine outside in close to total shade for a couple of weeks and then moved it to bright AM sun and now it gets a bit more sun in the afternoon. Seems to like it....It is blooming!
I will see if I have a How-To saved on it.....NOPE!
I do have it printed out....but you can Google it too....
Gita
RCN, relative to the Snow Angel, while you may be rated as being in a colder zone than here, that may be because your winters temperatures can get colder. However, your summers are definitely longer and I suspect that your average summer temperature is higher. Your plant photos in the spring show items blooming a good 2 to 3 weeks ahead of ours. I don't think that the snow angel can take such long periods of hot and such prolonged high temperatures. Snow Angel does very well in the colder regions.
Nemesia 'Masquerade'. This is the first bloom. I grew these from seed,it has a nice fragrance but not sure it is coconut. The bloom is tiny so I'll make a decision on the fragrance when there is more blooming.
Here is the first bloom from Holly's Datura seeds, they are from the seed swap in 2008 thanks to Sallyg for sending me seeds since I could not attend.
First waterlily bloom
Bec, I swear I did a double take after reading your post and thinking it said, "I plant clams..." LOLOL
I really need to get me some of those Clustered bellflowers I really love the color.
Deb, I think sun is the key to Wine & Roses too. I have a variegated one also had it for years on the north side of the house, not much sun. I just moved it this spring, cutting it way back so I could handle it, it did not show any signs of distress and even bloomed better for me in its new location. Also watch that wisteria it might just swallow up your shepherds hook.
Loving everyone's flower photos !
Chris, I have plenty of the clustered bellflowers. I'll get some to you somehow. It's not a good time to dig them right now.
Oh, Stormy, it's not that hot here, about 80, but very humid so it feels really hot out. It is cooler here in the mountains. Actually, you were talking about zones, Debbie is south of here so she would be higher in the mountains and have a little bit cooler climate than I do here in the lower valley. Sounds like we're backwards but upper valley is higher and lower valley is lower. The river flows down to the lower valley (north) from up in the upper valley to the south.
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New rose bloom
Stormy - I gave you wrong name of Rose - it's a Henry V
Hart - I have "planted Mussels" - so planting clams wouldn't be so far off :-)
LOL How handy would it be to have clam bushes? Hey, there's a big storm system west of here headed our way. Supposed to hit here about midnight so it will be a bit later for you all. There's a smaller one a little east of it, which I imagine is the thunder I'm hearing off in the distance.
Thanks, hart. That would be wonderful, no hurry, I am still up to my elbows still getting plants in the ground and in containers. The weather has been so up and down, chilly rainy then sunny and warm within a matter of minutes.
Gita, if you can get some divisions off that Clivia, you'll have us clawing each other for them. I would think after the bloom is done would be a rest period. Maybe you'd slide the mass out of the pot and try to pry some small pieces off, then put the thing back in the same pot and fill holes with new potting mix. Sounds like I'm trying to talk you into it......
Love the Melitta and Nemesia, neat unusual blooms.
Sally....
You KNOW I would first share any Clivia divisions with you--even though--I could sell them for really good money--like, maybe?--$35-$40 per potted division.
Can you imagine me dividing this heavy mass of roots after 30 years in the same pot????
It might just be my worst gardening nightmare!!!!!!!
IF they were the yellow ones (like we saw at Longwood Gardens), they would fetch a lot more than that!....
NOW--Mine actually tried to make seeds last year, but they all ended up being non-maturing. However--IF they had fully matured--I could get $5 a seed for them....
How about THEM beans?????
AHHHH--the benefits of DG!
Gita
Lady, That Nemesia is really neat. I've never seen one before. Is it an annual?
Jen, That rose is a real beauty.
Gita, Your KK is looking really good.
Hi to everyone (with a special shout out, as they say, to Hart and Debbie and Gita and Becky for your hellos and help on my forget-me-know and clematis questions). I miss you all -- I've just been crazy busy. (I wish the forget-me-nots didn't look so straggly this time of year)!
We just cleared out a small hill on top of which sits a huge white oak. I'm trying to decide what to plant in the dry shade of that tree. Maybe Geranium macrorrhizum 'Ingwersens Variety'? I need to take photos and pick your collective brains.
Gita, That clivia looks as good as any I saw in Philly a while back, congratulations! Ric
Happy, I have that geranium and have just recently received a wonderful assortment of unusual geraniums from this company.
http://www.edelweissperennials.com/
Check them out in the Garden Watchdog. The plants are beautiful and the packaging and service were great.
Gita you are so generous! I would want you to get your $$$ for that. DG marketplace.
