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My favorite garden series ever was Gardens of the World with Audrey Hepburn. I found a teaser, it also looks like part of another episode from the series is at the same link.
Here is a link that might be useful: Gardens of the World with Audrey Hepburn - Formal Gardens
Experiencing garden withdrawal today. The temperature was warmer but it's also been very, very windy --- which made it too cold to be in the garden. So instead I revisited this thread to look for more garden shows.
Scrolling through, I realized that I also used to watch Erica Glasener on "A Gardener's Diary". Thanks, TJ! When I clicked on her blog, there she was --- still wearing that brimmed hat. She said that her shows are owned by HGTV, but that they can be watched on Hulu. Don't know about Hulu, but there is a link to her page.
Molie
Here is a link that might be useful: Erica Glasener
Foul weather here too. Cold, wet, windy. Walking to work today it could have been January except for the chilled looking daffodils and other spring flowers. Looks like around 40 f for the rest of the week. I am fed up with it and desperately need some sun.
jujujojo - you have to put a name into the search box and you will get the invasive species.
BTW - if you want a plant identified it is always helpful to say where and when it was seen - that can make a lot of difference. I also assumed this was from your own garden.
No need to be professional- if were all here because it's our hobby anyway :-)
If you type in "Viola" in the search box in the upper left hand corner of the link I provided in the previous post you should come up with a list them- scroll down a little ways.
I looked a little more and found other possible candidates. Assuming your violet was growing wild and was not found in the States, or North America for that matter, it may be:
Viola
canina- found in Europe
hirta- found in Europe and Asia
Similar ones to yours found in North America: V. adunca, langsdorfii, & missouriensis.
If none of these fit the bill you may ask this question again over on the GardenWeb Violet Forum
CMK
Helenium and Heliopsis: Going to take the opportunity to say what great plants the helenium cultivars are.
Should add though that, in my experience, heleniums, are higher maintenance than any of my Heliopsis helianthoides. That goes for cultivars from the size of 'Sonnenwunder' to the size of 'Rubinswerg'.
Below: my most recently acquired Helenium: H 'Red Jewel'.
Ken is correct. You can pinch them anywhere along the stem and they will send out new shoots from where the leaf meets the stem. It's hard to say if they will outgrow their 3 inch pots. Keep an eye on the bottom of the pot. If you see a lot of roots coming out the bottom drainage holes, it's probably a good idea to repot into something larger.
Kevin
they should do ok in small pots. It slows them down somewhat, a kind of Bonsai effect, but that should be helpfull in your case.
After starting annual stuff from seeds for the balcony and potting up Dahlia tubers to give them a head start for several years now, I am delighted every season about the kind of growth explosion the plants go through after being transplanted into open soil or window boxes.
As long as you get your Dahlias through to the transplanting without overwatering (fungus) or keeping them too warm, they should recover.
And do prune them after transplanting in case they got extremely leggy and have thin stalks/shoots that tend to bend/break. They regrow new sturdy shoots in no time in a nice sunny border.
Good luck, bye, Lin
UPDATE:
I was directed to a much more complete list of towns/cities (Canadian) giving these "Average First/Last Frost Dates".
It is based on data from 1950 to 1980. More recent data (from 1980 to 2010) will be incorporated and released sometime in 2013.
In any event the date shown for my city is May 18. But given that this date is based on data only up till 1980 I am betting, given our noticeably warmer temperatures since 1980, that likely the newer data will send this "Last Frost Date" forward a few days or more i.e. earlier than the 18th . It will be interesting to see if this is the case.
I agree that it seems strange you want to move all those shrubs; along with trees, shrubs are the foundations of a landscape. I wonder how the rented house will look after you remove them ---- is it in a city with minimally landscaped property around it?
Photos would help. No one can "imagine" what you see when you look at these plants. How established are some of these shrubs? For example, "rosa rugosa (very large, pink)" --- what does that mean? I wouldn't want to move what I imagine to be a large rosa rugosa. I would definitely not move anything that is in poor condition--- this just might result in a faster death for the plant. And holly? Yikes!
Regarding bulbs, I actually moved a few hundred narcissus right after flowering three years ago. My daffodils were terribly overcrowded and easy to pull up by shoveling under and all around them. Because the leaves were still green, I just pulled the bulbs out of the dirt. I bagged them up ---- some with the flowers still attached --- and brought them into work where folks took them home and replanted them.
The two hollies are small, about 2' high. A friend last summer was throwing them away and i decided to make use for them. The rosa rugosa is 7' tall and about 4-5' wide. Incredible plant, i loved making my own rose tea from it. It is in very good condition. I'm doubtfull i can remove it...but would like to find a way. The two lilacs are in very sandy soil. They are about 3 1/2' tall.
I am considering leaving the rose and lilacs, they can survive on their own and it probably adds interest to the house...Incredibly sorry for no pictures, unfortunately i have none. Maybe i should just look for a rosa rugosa 'alba' instead...i hear it tastes better.
I like the Texensis clematis, especially 'Duchess of Albany'. This year they have a new one 'Princess Kate'. Then there is the Huldine, Viticella combo. Shock em.
But any clematis is a winner, given time.
Here is a link that might be useful: http://www.perishablenews.com/index.php?article=0024422
Let's try that link again for that 'Princess Kate' clematis.
Here is a link that might be useful: https://www.google.ca/search?q=clematis+princess+kate+zoprika&rlz=1C1CHMO_en&aq=f&oq=clematis+&aqs=chrome.1.57j59j60l3j0.6121&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
laceyvail wrote: It has the rare chartreuse color inside the lipstick red, rather than yellow, and it's spectacular in full bloom
I planted two of these Spigelia last May and although the one below is a bit 'scrawny', this being its first summer, they did give me a glimpse of their so unique flowers...awesome.
I have lots of common milkweed in my 5 acres of restored prairie and have planted swamp milkweed in my beds. I'm trying to get some of that seeded into the prairie area as well. If the temps ever warm enough to melt the snow and thaw the soil maybe we'll see some new seedlings this year. I have had a girl scout troop working through "Driven To Discover" coming out weekly for the last 3 summers, taking counts, raising caterpillars etc. Has been a lot of fun.
If a plant is healthy when I receive it, it is mine to thrive or die. I would never expect a vendor to replace something that was perfectly healthy when shipped. That is just wrong.
However ---- I ordered and received many bare-root peonies in the late fall and planted them. I have no idea what condition some were in since some didn't have eyes. Out of 13, only two sent up leaves and we had an early frost so if they don't come up this spring, I plan to complain.
Let me present a somewhat different viewpoint :-)
I've worked in the nursery industry for several decades. Every retail nursery I've worked for had a 12 month return/warranty/guarantee policy but only on woody plants - trees and shrubs. Never perennials, annuals or houseplants. And other than producing a receipt (or verifying our customer database) to ensure the plant was in fact purchased at that nursery and bringing back the dead plant (or a photo if too large to remove and return), we never hesitated to refund or credit the customer regardless of the reason.
Why? Because the actual volume of returns experienced by nurseries adopting this type of policy is less than 2% of total sales........IOW, a drop in the bucket in the larger scheme of things :-) And by adopting such a policiy the retail establishment gains far more in customer goodwill than it loses in refunded returns.
FWIW, the vast majority of returns tend to be customer's fault (don't beat me up - it's true!!)with improper watering the number one cause. Next on the list is improper planting or just unsuitable planting. My current nursery does not warranty certain borderline hardy plants so they are excluded but sold with a warning that they may not be fully hardy. Buyer beware!! And there are limits -- if our records indicate we have refunded the same plant previously, we will usually refund again but with the firm caveat that next time it's theirs for keeps!!
Since I do not buy mail order I really can't speak to their policies but I'd have a very hard time personally expecting anything bare root to be warranteed. It is just a very risky way of presenting and shipping plants under the best of conditions.
Hmmm I am jealous, my Dicentra spectablis is still under about 4 inches of snow!
This is a hardy and rugged shade perennial so your plant is probably fine. The new growth emerges with purply-crimson tips. Here's a clump that I transplanted a few years back in mid April.
I try to avoid doing spring clean up too early on my flower beds. I feel the "ratty" stuff insulated the plants over winter and when Spring weather/temps fluctuate so often, and new growth begins, the ratty stuff protects it.
With tough ole Lambs Ears however, in the early Spring I rake the spent leaves off any day it's nice and I have the time. In my garden, once established, It's difficult to irreparably damage Lambs ear.
hth,
Deb
I just arrived on this message board and was wondering if you really have a woodpecker that needs a home?
Also, was scanning computer to find out what the proper name is for "red tips" that grow prolifically in Alabama.
I had to check this out. I wondered where our feathered friend had landed. He moved out back in '04 - it appears he did not appreciate the many wind chimes we had placed around the outside of the house. Oh, they (the wind chimes, silly) are lovely with many different tones but not overwhelming.