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Nhbabs....as soon as the weather round here decided whether its gonna snow, rain, or be 70*, I sure will plant 'em....lol. Damdest weather I've ever seen.
Ken....loved ur story. Now I'm not so sure if I want to 'let 'em outta their cage'...lol!! Coincidentaly, QVC was airing their Spring Fling gardening show last nite, which included a flat of sedum varieties and the guy was describing them pretty much like u did. He walks, drives, etc. on it. can't kill it! LOL
Michey, that is so funny. I only read the beginning of your reply in email. Only now did I start to read the thread and see your images side by side. Hilarious. He makes himself an over-the-top joke, but the Donald-Ech juxtaposition is just too funny. Good for you.
Sunnyborders, you like the guy? W-h-y? Say its not true and that it's the breath of the moors that's snagged your noggin' ;)
I looked and I agree. I swear someone figured out how to duplicate the distortions that occur with V. (veronica aka speedwell)Crater Lake Blue and thought they'd see if people would buy them.
I had V. CLB and they all developed double heads....they were so ugly I pulled them.
Opportunity: (past observations) + (reading this thread) + (additional reading) = (enlightenment).
I have to occasionally deal with shrubs; namely in this instance, Hibiscus syriacus (Rose of Sharon). Have had a single-flowered one in our own garden for years and it's never seeded.
Put a double-flowered cultivar in a garden and was too busy to deadhead it one year. I'd been deadheading it because the spent blooms seemed so ugly. The next year that plant had seeded all around itself and on into the lawn and I needed to pull up over a hundred Hibiscus seedlings.
More recently I'd salvaged a double-flowered Rose of Sharon (cultivar 'Lucy') and put it in our own garden. I now had two reasons to deadhead 'Lucy'; namely, still don't like the ugly spent blooms and the suspicion that the cultivar could be an invasive self-seeder.
Posts above pushed me to look up 'Lucy' on-line. Just read a warning about it; namely to deadhead its spent blooms to stop it being invasive.
In fact, it was the confusion around the common name "hibiscus" that presented me with an opportunity to become enlightened on this matter.
Sometimes plant in full bloom will flop after a big rain, never to stand up again until next season! Proppping up may work cosmetically. If you cut back the May night and prop it may loook acceptable rest of season.
Gave up on floppy achillea decades ago because of soil.
Peonies in bloom flop after rains all the time. Peony growers whine about it all the time!! That''s why they run out and cut all the blossoms before rain is predicted!!
Marie
ditto with the floppy achillea. I have one left, that I have not bothered to dig out. It's blooming now, a few inches above the ground...behind several 18" plants.
For some plants, including some salvias, I cut down tomato cages, one to 2 rings per plant. All my catmints are caged. One tomato cage will make 2 to 3 supports.
I have moved perennials in the middle of blazing hot summer many times and they almost always do okay although some may sulk a little before rebounding. From my perspective, living in a very very hot summer climate, I would think any plant would come through a move with only 75-79 degree temperatures on the 1st of July! I could only dream of such a thing... (But, of course, I suppose there's never a guarantee that a plant won't die after transplanting any time.)
depending your soil i guess but I always soak the plant to be transplanted and allow it to drain for a while and then dig up as much of the root ball with it as possible.