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-SB, LOL! I can almost see the Asexual Reproduction Prevention Unit breaking down my little gate and scouring my yard for the offending extra plants, looking thru my tag box, doing dna testing....
Um, your tax dollars at work? Soylent Green anyone?
I have Black Scallop and there's nothing blue about the bloom, it is definitely a dark lavender in color. I have it, among other places, beside a Blackout Heuchera. Mine is just starting to bloom. Excuse the quickly-snapped pic, I just stepped out at dusk to grab one for you.
I'm preeeettty sure Bronze Beauty is also a lavender purple, but I don't have it personally, so I'll let someone else that does clarify that. Good luck to you!
They dig up all the tulips and sell them at the end of May. I've never bought any, but some people I talked to said they were buying more because they did grow for them in the past.
I know at least one of the big beds gets planted with herbs and annuals, but I also wonder what they do with all the other areas. I might find out if I go back later in summer when it's time for the roses, but it's always so hot by then that it's not as much fun.
If the plant is now growing under shadier conditions than where it was grown prior to your purchase, the newer leaves can become larger and paler to compensate for the lower light level. They also appear in the photo to have become softer in texture. That is a normal response for the changed conditions and/or just being younger leaves.
It's planted on the west side of my house so it gets quite a bit of shade, but is then hit by the hot Texas afternoons. I planted it in a small area leading up to my front door. I liked it because it was shorter than most of the liriope plants, so I'm disappointed the leaves are longer and bigger now.
I stack the big ones up along the side of the garage, which is out of the way and doesn't mar my view of anything. The smaller ones are rinsed out and stored in a big plastic container inside the garage.
I use them for various purposes - winter-sowing, spring sowing, over-wintering plants in the garage (this past winter I had approx. 40 containers of various sizes in the garage), plant swaps or giveaways, plant sales, and when I move from the current house I hope to bring LOTS of plants with me.
I'd like to know opinions on this as well! Seems like I am buying a new one every year because a seal or what not has cracked....then I end of getting more water on me and less where it's needed :O
I've seen a few being sold in my "Garden Supply" catalog, but haven't made up my mind just yet. I'm game for what others are saying!
Vera
Here is a link that might be useful: Gardener's Supply Company
I'm not a fan of many different spray patterns either. I always use the same one! I had a cheap one bought at Big lots that I loved. Not telescoping, though. Screen broke out of the head after long use, and I have been looking ever since. The one I have now telescopes, but all that means is that one section of the tubing spins when I don't want it to.
I'll be interested in replies you receive on this.
if your goal.. is mowing the lawn.. as you state that is your NEED ... then mow the lawn.. and who cares what happens to them ..
the alternative is that when they start to yellow... you dig them up.. and that wont be fun... and plant them in a bed ... where your NEED will be fulfilled ...
a different way of saying what flora said.. was that after flowering.. they are using the green leaves.. to store energy in the bulb for next year ... if you do not allow them to store such ... then they will be weaker next year.. if not disappear altogether ...
define your NEED... and act accordingly ... but you cant have both.. as they are planted now ... and you can move them now.. and disturb the storage process ...
good luck .... did you inherit this with a new house???? .. if so.. get rid of them.. no need to cope with someone elses mistake.. when you have other needs ...
ken
ps: this is why planting them in the lawn.. is not the best idea... if you have tendencies towards the ultimate lawn warrior.. where grass rules supreme ... its a look that works better.. when your lawn is hundreds of feet deep.. and you can put them way the heck out there.. where you cant see the long grass .. and dont care ... IMHO.. it really doesnt work in suburbia ... not to mention.. in warrior mode... you cant use weed killers etc ... as these would be considered weeds to a grass-aholic ....
Both of those varieties are fully evergreen in your climate so you should see foliage and perhaps even some signs of new growth. My Ascot Rainbow is beginning to set flower buds......
Compared to AR, Blackbird has not been proven to be a very robust or stable plant. They often don't last more than a single season and many local wholesale growers have simply stopped growing them. Too bad, as that dark wine red foliage is pretty stunning. I wouldn't hold out a lot of hope for that but the AR should come back strong. As in my previous post to this thread, these are best cut back to the ground - the old flowering stem that is - after the flowers fade in late spring/early summer. New growth from the base should be appearing by then and that should remain in place all through the season and into winter.
I seriously doubt it will come true from seed. I looked up Ohio, generally it shows you don't get more than 40" of rain per season, thats good for agastache. Any more than 40"-- forget it.
I have planted many plants that are listed as not hardy in my zone. Time after time the plant will make it just fine in spite of what I read online to the contrary. I take these zones with a grain of salt especially when I read info online which is all over the map.
This happens all the time.......Yesterday I bought Spanish Lavender because its supposed to take summer humidity better. Many sites say zone 8-9, some say 7 another said 6, still another says no frost or freezing at all. The tag says -10 degrees. Who is right? I'm planting it in soil amended with gravel with a couple large rocks close by to help protect the roots on the top of a slope.
We have many well established lantanas that make it just fine here in these parts that are listed over & over online as not hardy, along with several other plants I've looked up. Who comes up with these zones on tags anyway?
Three plants makes a nice visual clump of color (or it just gives you three times better chance for one to make it). One plant merely makes for a specimen so that factors in for me.
Wet winters, thats the bigger problem, but then, that would be the case with most any agastache.
I have clusters ever 3 inches - this is an invasion.
Onion soup. Lots and lots of onion soup.