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| I have about 10 plants of poppies in a row that are doing quite well in some places and not so well in others as there are gaps. How/when to I transplant to fill in the gaps? |
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- Posted by pitimpinai z6 Chicago (My Page) on Mon, Sep 15, 14 at 16:16
| I would leave them the way they are, gaps and all. It is more interesting than all of them standing in a row. BTW, mine died every time I moved them. |
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- Posted by Emerogork2 4 (My Page) on Mon, Sep 15, 14 at 16:34
| I have heard that they don't like to be moved. Maybe I just needed to hear it again (: I guess I lucked out planting them from seed and getting them where they are now. They are abundant that maybe the gaps don't show except in my own mind. I am looking for another color to plant in front of these. for contrast. Maybe a blue poppy or something... |
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| orlaya or ammi, moon carrot or even bronze fennel.....in fact, quite a few of the umbel family would look well in that grouping. Sow directly right about now for an early show next year. |
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| I forget which color is opposite on the wheel chart. Shades in blues, or purple? Perhaps a (very late?) flowering Iris germanica cv's. to coincide flowering times. Otherwise, a Japanese iris, as they definitely are the last to bloom. But, depending on where you are, (not to mention the weather) may affect actual slight variation in bloom time . So, possibly consider Siberian iris. When they flower next year, look around locally in nearby neighborhoods, to see what coincides with the schedule of these. |
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- Posted by Emerogork2 (My Page) on Thu, Sep 18, 14 at 23:51
| Look around for bloom? Yea, right... When I give directions to my house, people tell me that they get half the way down the street and know "exactly where the gardener lives". This neighborhood is a desert of green manicured and well watered lawns. We once had rows of 50+ year old maple trees that shaded the houses in the summer but they are mostly gone because they mess up their lawns. I once saw someone using a shop-vac to pick up the leaves. One neighbor complained to another that she should get rid of the dandelions in her lawn because they were drifting into his. Go figure...... I am almost tempted to plant a Beech Tree as they don't finish shedding until late January and will pepper their lawns with leaves all winter. (-:
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| Plant a sweetgum, so they can have nasty gum balls all winter! |
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| Your poppies are lovely. I would just sow some more seeds if you want them to fill in. I tried moving poppies once and killed them. :( Sorry to hear about your neighborhood. I live in one almost as bad, but not quite. My area used to be mostly farmland, which was grown over with scrub forests, and also has large patches of woods. So the manicured lawns are often surrounded by patches of scrub etc., and since the electric company came in a few months back and took down hundreds of beautiful old trees, all along the street we now have massive thickets of weeds growing, right in front of all these manicured lawns. I guess no one stopped to think that the trees shaded out the weeds and kept them down. So anyway, it's a strange mix of manicured and unkempt, which is fine by me. (Although, I would of course rather have kept the trees. I think we were the only people on the street to say no to the electric company, for the one oak they wanted to take down. Others had up to 15 - no exaggeration, I counted! - trees taken down along the front of their yards. Shameful, IMO....) Dee |
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| Dee- IMO as well! I think it is shameful to take down useful trees for 'perfect' lawns because trees are so healthy for us and the birds and other critters. I have a friend who cut down a lovely tree because it's droppings "messed up the deck" and now she is complaining because it is too hot to sit out on the deck. And this is an otherwise smart woman! She is finding out that a replacement tree will take a very long time to give her any shade. One lifetime just isn't long enough to learn from some mistakes. Min |
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- Posted by Emerogork2 4 (My Page) on Fri, Sep 19, 14 at 13:27
| While we drift away from poppies,.... It is interesting to see how many people do not know how to place a shade tree. Oft time, trees are planted in the spring and located in with respect to the shade from the sun at that time. They do not take into account that the sun moves north in the summer (well here in North Am) and never get the desired shade in August. More so, my neighbor had 4 50 year old Oak trees. Which one did she have removed last spring? The one that was due west of her house and at that time was shading the street. Now it is hot summer and the rest of her trees are still shading my house and she lost the shade for her's. |
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| Hate to continue going off topic, but... Just want to throw out there that many of the trees taken down on my street were not planted by the homeowners - the majority of the trees removed were MUCH older than the houses in the neighborhood. Secondly, the removal is the electric company's answer to accusations of not being prepared for the last two hurricanes and Halloween snowstorms, which took out branches and trees and - more importantly to most people - left folks without power for a few days. Instead of maintaining a reliable and adequate work force, maintaining equipment and lines, TRIMMING trees and looking for weakness in them, and cutting their CEO's ANNUAL salary of 2.5 MILLION, or even considering underground wires, the electric company decided the best way to handle it was to cut down all trees, regardless of health or condition, on the same side of the street within 8 or 10 feet (can't quite remember) of the power lines. (The power lines zig-zag back and forth across the street, so both sides were affected.) Like the 70-foot oak 20 feet across the street from the lines might not take them out. Heck, why not just cut down every tree within 100 feet? And this was done in early spring, so I'm sure lots of folks were dismayed to find that their houses were much hotter this summer than last year. But that's a win-win for the electric company, as more people ran their ACs for longer periods. Pshaw. But, back on topic, emerogork, I have to say I agree with gringo's suggestion of planting something purple in amongst those poppies which will bloom at the same time. That would look great! Dee |
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- Posted by Emerogork2 4 (My Page) on Fri, Sep 19, 14 at 15:00
| I tried to grow blue poppies but am not as successful as the orange ones. It may have been beginner's luck. |
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| The fabulous blue poppies are among the most difficult plants in the world to grow. You need conditions ideal for them--and if you don't have it naturally, they just won't grow. |
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| I happened to look in my photo files, along with the pictures of my orange oriental poppies in bloom. There, were Canterbury Bells (biennial) 'Cup & Saucer' in deep violet blue, Colorado Columbine, 'Batik' Iris & Eryngium alpinum, which are easier by mail ordering bare roots., just like the Iris, but it's rather late in the season for iris rhizomes. As my photos are likey not resized properly for easier posting, using wifi... otherwise I would upload their photos. Sorry to read about any needless destruction of trees , as they really do provide shade & help reduce temperatures of homes, with proper placement & what can be destroyed so quickly, takes so many years to replace, after the mindless mistakes are made. Here, it is mass removal, usually for new housing, or shopping parking lots, without anything but tiny replacements, that will never do the job, anything nearly like, that which was so quickly removed.
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