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If the plants are showing new growth at the base going into winter and you add a couple inches of mulch, they have a decent shot of overwintering.
Most times, mums are pushed into maximal bloom for late summer/fall sales, apparently are exhausted by the end of the season and doubtful winter survivors.
I would treat all late-planted mums as annuals and take even minimal overwintering as a plus.
By the way, it's probably not a good idea to place new plantings in a pure soil amendment product if the surrounding soil isn't good (i.e. dense and clayey). The planting spot will wind up being a moisture sink and the roots will likely stay in that spot without spreading out into surrounding soil, thus limiting hardiness.
I was told in another thread that mulching the base of roses can cause stem canker.
These mums were bought at a nursery and not a big box store, but they seem pretty standard to me.
I didn't know that about soil amendment... I just thought I was giving them the best possible soil to grow in. Well, I guess we'll find out in the spring if they make it! :)
Campanula, try slashing and then letting it rot on the ground. It is messy for a few years but it is great for the soil and wildlife. I slash and leave it. It stops the run off. I leave it in berms and some all over. One rancher says he will go back in 5 years and burn what is left. We have a lot of grade change in our land and torrential rains and dirt that flows easily ( caliche). So leaving branches and leafy twigs is important to catch the dirt. They are much better at catching the wind driven leaves in the fall. I was back in the gorge and saw snakes chasing frogs through the twiggy berms that I left. where the berms are is where I have trees sprouting. AND there was 4 inches of dirt behind the berms.. I use the slash to protect the seedlings from the deer.
Today I was burning stuff that was close to the buildings that are by the more "formal (misnomer) garden". My husband does not like the mess that I leave for the retention berms. He likes things looking very 'park like". So around the buildings , we do it his way.
Yep I will be pretty smoky smelling all week. I did get a massage from a traveling masseuse too so I was a pile of jello at the end of the day.
While weeding yesterday, I found three Verbena bonariensis seedlings. I originally took it out of the beds because it reseeded so profusely! They've been dormant for years and years as I, in a moment of weakness, just put a new plant in this Spring quite a distance away that hasn't set seed yet! I have two friends that want them.
Lucky you to live in a zone where Salvia guaranitica can overwinter. I LOVE Salvia B&B. It is one of my favorite plants. The hummers go crazy over it too.
Salvia B&B is not hardy here, so for the past few years I have dug it up in the fall and overwinter it in the garage in pots. Give it some water about 1x per month. Last winter I had 8 plants in the garage. I might lose one each winter for whatever reason, but the rest get planted back out in the Spring and they have done well with this treatment.
I fell in love with Achilleas this year. I had never grown them, but had a hot, dry, difficult area that needed something, so when I came across some 'Summer Pastels' cheap, I thought I would give them a try. Boy am I happy I bought them.
I don't remember the exact order of the change in color succession, but I think the flowers changed from dark red to gold to paler yellow and finally peach. With new blooms developing constantly, all these colors appeared at the same time on all the plants. The plants were in flower from late June until about a week ago when I finally chopped off the last of the flowers.
I don't know how well behaved these are going to be because they really didn't expand outward much this first year. Quite frankly, I hope they take over the bed they're planted in. Otherwise I'm going to need to buy more of them next year.
Kevin
I have âÂÂtastefulâ admirers too - plenty of them, especially near my vegetable garden.
This one found my peppers patch very âÂÂtastefulâÂÂ:
And those ones just wrapped up a Tomato-tasting tour in my vegetable garden:
Hello All --
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i loved that makeover, the cabinet was an espresso color wood and the countertop was granite. looking for a beautiful needle in a haystack! thanks for your help. Nalyn - aka Ben's mom
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the first thing i would ask ... is will they.. all bloom at the same time .. in your area ??? .. the lily being the shortest bloom season ....
e.g. i am not sure... in my z5 MI ... that lily might not have shot its wad... before the roses were vigorously blooming ...
something to think about
ken
Yes, I have a mate who gardens on Salt Spring Island who has been at pains to convince me that Canada is, in fact, quite temperate and English-like.....not that I believe this for one nano-second. When snow-mobiles are common transport modes in the fens, I may take her assertions a bit more seriously.
Lin, I love hanging out with other planty types. As a shy and curmudgeonly type, I generally avoid my fellow humans....unless they are gardeners in which case I can find something to say instead of incoherent mumbling, hiding, or rushing off at the first sound of visitors (although I am pretty certain these planty convos are not exactly scintillating). I came within a whisker of going to the Heritage Rose conference at Mottisfont this year....but the horsebox was burgled a couple of weeks before the booking deadlines and I just could not justify the ticket and travel costs, knowing all our garden tools (and our woodburning stove ffs) had been robbed....so I missed out to my utmost chagrin (shoulda just gone).
I went through a phase of knowing nothing, then knowing lots and finally, knowing enough to know that I really did know nothing....and yep, I am greedy and avid for more knowledge, ideas, information, suggestions and best of all, furious contentious debate......
Tex, I can especially recommend any of C.Lloyds books - he writes in a particularly dry, even faintly arch, but distinctively english manner (of a certain age and class) which I suspect will amuse you no end.
There is an unfortunate backlash regarding famous gardeners and especially famous gardens which I despair about - the tendency to remain stuck in a time-warp where a certain style evolves and is then preserved in aspic....forever. True, there is always a temptation to remain within your comfort zone and the public are often voraciously against any sort of change. If you have made a name for yourself as this or that (New Perennials are still riding high in garden trends), it can be really difficult to throw it in and try something different for a while....which is why us poor and undistinguished types have much more fun....but then again, being a dilettante rather than becoming truly expert has its limitations as well.
Forum mates, where do you place yourself in this scheme - are you trying to explore everything about a particular style....or are you too much of a flipperty-gibbet to do much more than dabble? Do you have a 'speciality'....or a style you are maintaining. Are you a purist or all over the place. At bottom, do you have a garden philosophy which informs your art or do you change with every passing craze? (it must be fairly obvious which camp I fall into).
And, do you have garden gurus or educators who's advice and theories you adhere to?
Speaking personally, I have not yet come across the garden writer or thinker who I can follow on my woodland adventure...and feel I am ploughing a lonely meandering furrow with minimal guidance....(no money, no staff, no time, no water and no idea).
I have just got back from a weekend of leaf-raking and bulb-planting. I used to save my leaves for making leaf-mould....and I can't quite bring myself to let this booty go unused....but a forest worth of poplar leaves is a crazy big mountain (grandaughter did a lot of diving and romping).....
Yes, you are right, Rouge - winter aconites can be really tricky to establish in autumn, especially if you have heavy soil or the corms have dried out (same with erythroniums and galanthus too). If you manage to get freshly dug corms (tubers?) and have free draining soil, they will establish....but often, a better bet is to lift them while they are in growth ('in the green') and plant in spring. This is a common method in england and many nurseries will send out trays of plants 'in the green'
They are easy in my chalky (alkaline) sandy woods, especially if they get a bit of easterly morning sun...although they will grow in the most inimical conditions amongst tree roots, they hate compacted soil. You could throw a handful of grit in the planting holes......
I did way more than meet my goals. My only goal for this year was to buy a nice new rose and some honeysuckle, remove the scraggly thorn bush, and then put the new rose where the bush used to be.
I did that (which was much much harder than I expected!), but I also put down all new landscaping timbers around my existing beds, extended the living room window bed about 4' into the yard (new timbers there too), and bought a bunch of different plants (some perennials). I also moved the decorative grass to behind the fence (so now it's not hanging over the sidewalk so we have to walk through it), and moved a very sickly knockout rose from under the living room window to where the grass used to be, which is a much sunnier spot for it. That rose is now looking fantastic! I don't know why the previous tenant decided to put it in its previous shady spot, but oh well, because it's much happier now.
I've also finally won the war against the mint and wild violets.
You are making me want one of those green_go!
Green_go- yes, I love those! I think they will look great with the little lime. I think I will have to wait until next spring to find them though.
laceyvail- I am rethinking (maybe a little buyers remorse?) the clethra. I already bought 3 of each so I need to find a place for them somewhere...but I am becoming concerned about the overall space they might need width wise in my bed. I don't want to crowd out the Viburnum Winterthul I am spotlighting in a large corner of the bed (7 x 7 area). So I will probably move the clethra out of that bed altogether (nothing is planted yet I am just playing with them in their pots right now).Thanks for your insights on the growing conditions!