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Wed, Apr 9, 14 at 16:44
| Hi everybody! At the end of the season last year, i got a bunch of beautiful perennials dirt cheap,(delphinium,hydrangea,phlox,butterfly bush), i put them in the back garden for protection over the winter( empty spot usually used for veggies located between two garages. I live in the city) so a lot of things have started popping up(so excited!!) but I'm worried about the delphinium, i accidentally put it in a spot that i hadn't realized is VERY wet. Actual pools of water, we have had a long and very cold winter, the snow has only just totally melted, so i don't want to move it, but i think i should be more worried about the water?? What do you think??! Ill add that there is a pretty empty garden in the front but my father(who's house i live in) never tilled it and we have mostly clay here, I'm thinking about just a higher spot in back... Thank you for your time/help i am so appreciative!! |
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- Posted by ken_adrian MI z5 (My Page) on Wed, Apr 9, 14 at 17:30
| i have never actually gotten one to live over a MI winter.. so i wish you luck ... if fully dormant.. there is no reason NOT to move anything right now ... i like to say.. a dormant plant wont even know .... but at my old house.. i had a large area across the whole yard.. that was under water for a week at snow thaw time.. nothing died for such ... and as soon as the ground thawed sufficiently it drained away .. again.. dormant plants ... so if it dies.. i am not sure the water would have been an issue ... but if you want to move it.. go for it ... ken |
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| Likes it moist but not wet, if it doesn't come back this spring you will know what happened. |
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- Posted by panforcooking none (My Page) on Thu, Apr 10, 14 at 11:28
| Well it has some green coming up already(maybe barely 1/4")! So once i realized it was definitely coming back i wa excited but then worried because if i leave it, it will be apending a lot more time in the wet spot than it sid before winter until i am ready to move it. The ground is still pretty wet everywhre else, (used the "baseball" method, could play a game with what i have lol!) so i think iill move it to be safe.. Ad if it gets a little sad, itll at least have a drier spot to perk up about? Thank you so much for your input!! |
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- Posted by panforcooking none (My Page) on Thu, Apr 10, 14 at 11:34
| And i mean to say, im worried about the upcoming rainy season, the spot its in is a bit lower so i have no doubt it will be swimming until i have the front garden ready for it, weighing my options, im probably better risking moving it early than leaving it in a flooding area? Ken, im sorry you havent had any come back! They are so beautiful! I was ecstatic to see the tiny bit if green popping up, i couldnt stop thinking about it all this loooong winter, wondering how it was faring! |
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- Posted by ken_adrian MI z5 (My Page) on Thu, Apr 10, 14 at 12:16
| i should have said.. the foo foo ones never came back ... the more exquisite the less hardy ... i planted them for a few years.. as annuals .... but i still enjoy the annual ... larkspur.. good enough ... for me .. such a blue .... ken |
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