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Yeona, some azaleas have a very strong fragrance(especially Soir de Paris and Jolie Madamme), you can smell it from a distance. Some are fragrant if you put your nose into the flowers. Some do not have any detectable fragrance. None of them has an unpleasant smell(unlike tree peonies, which can have horrifying smell)
I have added some new pictures(I HATE the new photobucket, can't find anything)
Some double clones of Ranunculus ficaria
Trillium erectum album
Brunnera Jack Frost and Trillium albidum
A very pale Uvularia grandiflora(very late to emerge and bloom in comparison to the dark yellow ones)
A very intense pink clone of Podophyllum peltatum. Emerges much later than the others.
A lighter pink one
Smilacina racemosa amplexicaulis, from North West USA. Taller than the straight species. Very fragrant, my pet plant.
Double Trillium grandiflorum
Nothing grows faster than Creeping jenny. I pull it out by the handfuls in spring to try to keep it in check and still have to do more during the summer to try to control it. I never fertilize it or give it any care
It looks like there are still spots of it alive, I'd Give it a bit of fertilizer and water and stand back and watch it grow. IF the roots are still alive it may send out new growth
Thanks to everyone for their comments, the encouragement, and for the compliment! :-)
Yeah I've had creeping jenny for several years, and I know how fast it grows. I just wasn't sure if it had been killed past the point of it recovering, without me having to re-establish it with plugs. Would prefer not to have to do that. Y'know, at what point does a plant become so defoliated that it cannot recover --- I know it varies for each plant, and creeping jenny being so robust is probably pretty tough. I was just hoping that a) it would come back, and b) it would come back fast, without me having to wait the whole season.
I'd be happy to send sawflies your way... :-) All I do to control my creeping jenny is to hand-pull it from around the bases of the plants in spring, and then when I mow along where the grass meets the bed, it gets a lot of it. If it starts going into the grass too far I just spray a little Round Up between the bed and the lawn, and that will keep it contained all season. I don't mind doing that too much because when it's established it chokes out the weeds pretty well, and I don't have to mulch the bed every year.
We have had a lot of rain in the last day or two, and it seems to be responding to that. I'm seeing new growths at the ends, but not as much along the stems yet. But at least now there is new growth, which means they aren't going to just keel over.
For all its aggressiveness, creeping jenny does make a nice background in a bed. My neighbors all ooh and ahh over how great the bed looks. Haven't heard much of that lately, so I'm guessing it's because the creeping jenny isn't looking so great.
Thanks again!
RyseRyse, sounds like a few things. It could be the soil, light, age of the plant. All geranium do not demand the same conditions. I have some that like full sun, some that perform and grow perfect in the shade in horrible soil. One dose not like good soil.
If you find a plant that does not react the way your want it for the position in your garden and you do not have alternate space to plant it to make it happy then the only thing you can do is dig it out and get a plant that makes you happy.
Gardening is a challenge. I had a normal Suburban yard so I know how hard it is to have limited space. I am not in that position now. I move plants around until I find its happy place. I do not blame the plant.
It gets hit with the sunrise and sunset.. and is shaded a bit in the middle afternoon from the tree. It's actually flopping over in the middle in all directions. I should stake it.
That poplar has a bad case of chlorosis... might take him down soon just to get a replacement growing sooner then later.
My guess would be deer--I don't have them where I am but I do have squirrels, chipmunks & bunnies. None of my astilbes or hosta have ever even been nibbled--I'm guessing because I'm not in their established path but a neighbor's shade garden just 3 houses up the road from me gets chomped by deer every year.
Used to be people deliberately planted clover lawns, but it went out of fashion about a half century ago. It has sneaked back into my country lawn, until now it's almost pure clover again. Personally, I like it. The honey bees love it, and the grandkids spend hours hunting for 4-leaf clovers. I have both the red clover, the blooms of which I harvest and dry for clover teas, and the white clover. Besides, it smells good!
Sandy
oh.. i forgot ...
clover in the lawn flowers .. and when it does... there are bees everywhere ... [no lack of them in the country] ...
and if children w/o shoes step on them... there will be hell to pay ... [now my kids have laptops.. and dont play outside anymore...]
the upside of it.. on my sand.. its one of the plants.. unlike grass.. that does not go summer dormant ... one might say.. evergreen ...
ken
Kevin,
Thanks for that link! I'm very relieved to know that I can water whenever I have time without worrying that I'll over stress my plants. I worried the most about fragile seedlings that were just planted out. They need water ASAP, but I can't plant everything before 11 am on a Saturday morning.LOL. Thanks again.
Martha
nothing.. in a pot.. should be in full sun at 90 degrees ... or ever really ....
it has nothing to do with the plant leave tolerance ...
it has to do with how hot the pot got.. and how you cooked its roots ... interfering with water management ....
not only does the heat make the plant transpire heavily ... but it interfered with the roots ability to process enough water to offset it all ... and depending on pot size.. perhaps dried out ....
all my pots are kept in very bright shade... here in MI.. regardless of the plants sun tolerance ... and its the same reason no nursery worth its salt.. leaves potted plants in full sun ... unless there are hundreds of them stacked close together... to shield the pots themselves from sun ... observe next time you are plant shopping.. you are rarely standing in blinding sun.. looking at pots ... shade cloth.. lathe house.. greenhouses.. etc ... [bigboxstore is not a nursery .. lol .. they do have them out on the blacktop often .. and most of us know what they look like after a few weeks]
make any sense??
ken
Your plants should react as though you pinched the stalks - I do this with Echinacea 'Summer Sky' because it is very floppy, and occasionally trim off flower buds so for other reasons - to delay blooming, produce a bushier plant, or let the plant put more energy into roots and shoots.
I think your plant will be okay as long as the ground hog didn't eat all the leaves off, which would severely deplete the plant. If it ate only the buds, you will probably get side shoots that will flower.
In the meantime use a barrier or repellent to protect the plant.
um, yours are probably the scrambling type and there is not really any way to keep them neat and hummocky. You could try to support them with pea sticks (prunings from woody shrubs) or even encourage them to grow up and between other plants but no, cutting them back will result in losing flowers since they are formed on the continually extending stems.
I have mine in mostly shade growing around my mailbox. They are perfect for shade gardens. I have dark purple, pink, and the wild native ones that are pink with a yellow center. All of mine were from seed trades on here. Along with my fall blooming toad lilies, they are my favorite shade flower. I will be putting some columbine seeds up for trade soon. I have so many seed pods developing this year.
My relationship with the bought ones was short (they die after year 3 at the latest). But they left me with a lot of babies, one uglier than the other.