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and a stout wire brush with a handle ... something you can really scrub with ... rather than steel wool ...
DEPENDING on how thick the buildup is ... perhaps kevin is more on top of doing this every year ...
compared to me.. who would do it once a decade... or declare it a natural decoration on the pot.. lol ... and never do it...
ken
Oh wow, what gorgeous pics! I can see why WS would be addictive. I'll have to look into this for next winter. My coworker gave me poppy seed pods last summer which I stored in the garage all winter. (Not sure if that counts as overwintering, lol) I think the mice all had turns at them. Maybe next year I'll get some more and try winter sowing. Yep, can definitely see this as being addictive!
Yep, that is a trencher chain! I don't think we owned a large trencher at the nursery/landscape business. It must have been from when my husband worked with a tree farm, and they replaced their trencher's chain. (I was busy raising a baby then, so we had moved away from self employment). It was probably sitting in the field for 25 years.
I have always liked adding root knots and twisted branches into my landscape. Acorn woodpecker storage graineries and nest holes were also something I have long wished we could import for the local Nuttall's woodpeckers. Unfortunately, I don't have a source near our home and I cannot safely transport that type of stuff from the nursery land in another county, because the oaks died from a disease/beetle infestation that could be spread. :(
Probably Trillium erectum....It is a native wildflower but, unless your house was built in a wooded area, it was most likely planted - perhaps from wild stock from a nearby woods....? They will go dormant in the summer. If you want to move it, wait until it is dormant and then dig up the root, which looks vaguely bulb-like. If it's happy where it is, I'd be inclined to leave it rather than risk losing it in a move.
any such.. you use according to the label .. perhaps supplemented by the companies website ...
ken
Here is a link that might be useful: all links on that page are from the CO. website.... after the first advert
Have you considered Milorganite? Of course there is no true deterrent besides buckshot for a hungry deer, this seems to work well for me. My prperty is not frnced but I did grow some veggies last summer with no issues. If nothing else it is a lot cheaper than other offerings and my Canas absolutely thrived on it.
Looks pretty healthy to me.
Brown leaf tips can be a sign of low humidity, but also could relate to other culture problems. Having older leaves turning yellow from time to time is normal.
Frequency of watering per week is not a good measure of sufficiency (or overwatering). Make sure the pot isn't sitting in water and that the soil a few inches down isn't staying soggy between waterings. Too much water or fertilizer or too small a pot could be a problem. These palms like at least a bright location, preferably at least a few hours of sun a day (moving them suddenly into full sun could cause leaf burning).
Good luck.
you might also want to chime in the the houseplant forum .. and the palm forums ... if there is one ...
is that a very new leaf.. if so.. you might be over-watering ...
and the media in the pot behind.. looks awful peaty ... which further retains a lot of water ...
we dont do palms in MI ... but i see them in sand country ... and a peat media is just about the polar opposite of sand ...
so i suggest you look to your media also ...
ken
Hi KSimS,
Very attractive.
Love the colours.
That business about blue/purple and the camera:
I don't know much about photography, but got a new camera a while back. Started using it this spring and had a fit when the purple crocuses appeared blue in the pictures.
A friend pointed me to the "white balance" function on the camera. Turning it from White Balance Automatical to Daylight, for garden pictures, is currently solving the problem.
Thank you to everybody for your messages and for your help.
I them you that around here in my residential have more plumbagos planted but are with white flowers and not very attractives for me, I prefer the sky blue flowers.
But her I will place photos of the all plumbagos for that you can look.
Hi
Is a very common landscape plant in s. florida (U S) Comes in red white and at least 3 shades of blue .
Can't imag ine how it would grow in Colombia !!lol Very rampant I have 3 patches over 10 feet in both directions with constant pruning. IT does stay in flower year around
no pests and I love blue flowers!! lol
Have never tried to propagate it as it's very common in nurseries here .. Pick an area where the is enough area to expand against a fence is good. gary
After the late season freeze (Feb) and record breaking March rainfall the PNW experienced. I am not surprised that many plants have taken a big hit. In my role as a garden consultant, I have seen all manner of even very hardy plants bite the dust this season. The combination of a pretty mild winter and the early end of dormancy for a lot of plants followed by a 1-2 weird weather punch was just more than they could handle. Couple that with hollyhocks' typical short lifespan and I'd think it was time to replant with fresh plants :-))
Yes, I was surprised to see that they had a thin tuber..Shaped kind of like a dahlia. I believe, but would not swear, that I bought the double mixture from Costco. I am going to be patient, and maybe dig up around in there and see if there is any sign of life. They got to be 8' or so tall, and very impressive. I used Bayer Advanced disease care when they got RUST. They were gorgeous. Will keep you updated.
laceyvail, I wouldn't dig them up just yet, just cut back if you can't stand looking at it. 10 yrs is very established. The cluster of tubers underground are probably OK, some of mine got quite a bit of winter scald so the leaves aren't what they usually are but they are just now putting out new blooms -- no new leaves of yet here a bit further south, they do that later.
If they got too wet however, they might have rotted. You can sometimes tell by your nose with a bit of probing if thats the case.
In my gardens, Arabis foliage has always looked a bit tattered in summer, while Iberis (both Autumn Beauty and a couple other kinds I have forgotten) look better. I don't know if it's where I have it in only about 4 hours of sun, but Autumn Beauty has a less nice plant form, floppier than the other Iberis I have grown. If I were to do it again, I would get a shorter, spring-only blooming Iberis rather than Autumn Beauty which has spring and fall blooms.
I don't know what Arabis doesn't like about my growing conditions, since this is the second garden I've had where it's languished in full sun and well drained soil.
I have quite acid, fine sandy loam in this garden, and where I have previously grown Iberis was in acid loam, former farmland. Where I previously grew Arabis was at the top of a rock wall in well-drained rocky loam.
I was just cleaning up a bed today that is edged with Autumn Beauty, and I am considering removing it. It is leggy and floppy, no matter how much I cut it back, and the bloom is rather sparse. It also didn't do too well over this past winter, but I am not holding that against it - lots of things didn't do well this winter! Perhaps it's not in the right spot, but I am not overly thrilled with it. The foliage is pretty and in bloom it is lovely, but the form leaves something to be desired, IMO, and the bloom is not nearly heavy enough to make up for it... even though those few sporadic blooms in fall are precious... I may look into a different variety, because it is a pretty plant in general.
I have some rockcress in the very first garden I planted years ago, which is now very neglected, I'm ashamed to say, and the rockcress has spread quite a bit. I guess I wasn't aware it was a groundcover. I don't dislike it; it is a nice little groundcover with pleasant white blooms. But since this bed is neglected, I can't give a really accurate account of it since I haven't paid much attention! Obviously it is hardy, spreads well if that is what you want, and thrives on neglect, lol. I plan (ha, ha,) on renovating this bed this year so I may take out a lot or at least move it off the walkway, which it completely covers at the moment.
Dee
The more sun the better, for the most part. It's a glade/prairie plant. I've grown in western exposure and it doesn't perform nearly as well as full sun.
Thank you for your help and the photos, beautiful!
I think I will try to find a another spot in full sun...I'm running out of room!