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Our new patio is half finished and I am planning the "Autumn garden" I want near it. I am so glad to be reminded of hibiscus.
Do they attract hummers and/or pollinators? Do you notice any colors or variety is more popular than others?
Plants in this spot have to earn their keep.
My zone 4 has changed to 5a with global warming
==>>> there is no global warming.. and dont waste more time with such.. as i predict you will have a z3 winter.. soon enough ...
i have had two z4 winters in a row.. in my z5 MI ...
and you will lose a lot of money.. if you start investing in z5 plants... based on a politicians opinion ...
ken
ps: know how i know my winters were z4 ... i lost a lot of very expensive conifers.. that were z5 winter tolerant ... go figure on that loss ...
I grow chives, Nodding onions, and Prairie onions in my pollinator garden. The last two are native plants, and all provide excellent nectar for lots of important pollinators. They are extremely easy to care for and need almost no water. And I think they are beautiful. They do offer a different texture, and beautiful blooms at a time when lots of plants are looking tired and dry.
Good grief! Cutting off barely starting to wither blooms. I let them FINISH cause I enjoy seeing the blooms til the bloom is fully gone. I spent ~ 1 1/2 hours deadheading today. Have 15 or so bushes. Will be pottting up volunteers the next few days from my neighbor's plants.
Lovely! Mx, I wonder if it smells anything like the Guacamole I used to have? That too flowered at the end of August and the scent was like fresh sweet soap or like some sort of hand cream that mum had when I was small. Just so heavenly especially at night.
Awesome! I was just sticking my nose in mine today! The bees are going crazy for it! Mine is in quite a lot of sun and is a pretty reliable bloomer. Is yours in shade? I wonder if that might have something to do with it not blooming much? Mine came by way of my grandmother to my mother and I got a clump from mom. Seems like a bit of a "boring" hosta most of the time but the bloom sure makes up for it! And it blooms for soooooo long.
Thanks, Maureen.
Admit I can manicure/shave? the flowering of some perennials (especially daylilies) before taking their picture.
There is an overlap, in flowering, between some of our daylilies and the heleniums. For earlier blooming heleniums, we also have 'Sahin's Early Flowerer' and little 'The Bishop'.
Of course, you tidy up your plants before photographing them. A concept that my DH, a non gardener, doesn't seem to understand. I'm fortunate that he is willing to take photos that I can share while I am indisposed. I am learning to use his fancy camera to take my own photos after the plants have been spruced up.
ugly leaves.. and ugly plants.. in late august.. never bother me ...
as the sun declines .. the plants start declining.. especially those that peaked in spring ...
it often comes down to you deciding they are pissin you off.. and getting rid of them for something else.. rather than solving the mystery ...
what marl said.. if your pix are on your hard drive.. if not.. then you will need some other advice about your fancy gizmo ... what is the gizmo.. and i bet someone will know and advise ...
ken
Love this plant! Unfortunately it is biennial (or sometimes a short lived perennial). I grew mine from seed but the plants did not set seed. Maybe not enough warmth to get good seed set? The smell of the flowers is very peculiar, reminds my of ecoline (some kind of ink). In my garden the flowers attract not only bees, wasps and bumblebees but also a lot of flies.
I was feeling quite smug back in 2009 when I dug out the burdock, root and all. Last summer I noticed a little one, and ignored it. This year, I have been punished with about 12 more of these plants, all bigger and taller than the original. One of them has grown up through my Japanese Maple, and is about 8 ft high, lol. I suppose I'll try vinegar and then Round-Up this time. Sounds like it's worth smuggling across the border into Canada. I had a good chuckle at a lot of the comments on this very old thread - enjoy :)
I think I will yank cherry brandy. I would like to select the mother strains from now on. How does one know what it is?
It's probably about the root system as well as which one is dominant.
A few summers ago when we had drought conditions (100+ days with no rain and many days over 100-F), 1 of my 2 Japanese yews croaked. They were a similar height, planted about 2 feet apart. Their growing conditions should have been very similar.
One began to get brown leaves and eventually dried up. I didn't do anything at the time (water it) because I thought it may be a normal sign of low water conditions, didn't expect it to actually die.
After it was dead, I pulled it up. The roots were very shallow, less than 2" into the soil. It was a spreading type of root system. I'm sure the other one is also...so then why did they both act differently?
Besides the shallow root system, and each plant's own disposition to handle the weather conditions, I think that some plants which were able to dominate in that area will defeat the other nearby plants. In this case, one of the yews probably took up more resources than the other one nearby.
You can see this also in the cases when you have seedlings or even adolescent plants near each other. Conditions of light, water, nutrition are all that same, for the purposes of how seedlings grow together. Yet one or some of them will always seem to take over and make the other nearby seedlings reduce in vigor.
This year, I have a basil and jalapeno plant that I allowed to continue growing with their more dominant sibling. The bigger basil is as large as I typically have grown basil, and the weaker basil is still about 6" tall. The bigger jalapeno is a bit stunted from what I normally have seen, but the smaller jalapeno plant is about 8" and has about 5 leaves.