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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' ;)

No starsplitter.

The one on the right is the 'Doubledekker'!

And don't send the other one up here.

Perhaps I shouldn't have suggested it, Emerogork.

I've only done it once. Just chopped it up into, I think, three pieces and kept the biggest one. Did it about four years ago and still have that oriental poppy.

One success, no failures.

Our survivor (June 11, 2015).

Haven't planted any oriental poppies for some years for the reason said (gap left when they die back). Knew of this before, so had never planted more than one in any single location.

I am sooo curious.....back I go to ....to the internet

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.

Thanks for the info 'gyr' and 'chouchou'.

I tried 3 plants of A. Tangerine Tango which was supposed to be hardy to zone 5, but they didn't survive for me in any of the spots I planted them.

Most garden centers carry milky spore I believe, although they may only carry it seasonally, i.e. spring and summer. Otherwise you can get it online. I often source items from Gardens Alive.

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.

It is Rudbeckia triloba. It will flower soon and prolifically, it will also seed prolifically. Difficult to deadhead this one since the spent flowers still look tidy.

Thanks I was getting worried by the lack of blooms.

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.

That sure looks like it. Thank you!

A tropical entity, not hardy below about Z10, AFAIK.

Great information, Woody.

Thanks from me, too. I've never seen this site and it will be fun to use it.

Always enjoy your photos and I feel like I've visited your garden in person. I especially enjoyed the evolution of your tool shed and I never see a big rodgersia without thinking of yours.

..thanks cat...glad you enjoyed the views...

Beautiful. I feel like I just leafed through a glossy coffee table book on fancy English gardens. What a different world from my weedy, suburban plot :)

Love Viburnums--check out 'Onondaga'. 'Mariesii' (white)
'Onondaga'

Thanks to all. I was able to figure out the one I bought last year. It blossomed this springtime and I was delighted. Bob

As I mentioned I have 7 of these plants scattered about and I see no sign of seeding. I very much recommend these plants.

This was one of my favourite shade perennials. I had one that was doing very well and I just loved it. Then it died this past winter. I'm happy to hear it reseeds Donna. I've been noticing some little sprouts in the area and am hoping that's what it is. I will pot some up just in case. But I've nurtured weeds before, lol. Here it is in its former glory.