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I'm 5'1" and around 118 lbs. I managed to dig out 2 well established yuccas myself, but I have to admit we have sandy soil. I made sure to get all the root system. That was quite a few years ago and it hasn't grown back. Now if I can manage to dig out that gigantic sylphium out back.....OMG.
Well, yesterday I took a pruning shear, a good flat bladed spade, and a rake and managed to thin them down to about two plants. I'm sure there's still roots left for some of them, but if we keep up every spring with hacking out any new growth, I think it might be controllable, as long as we stay vigilant.
There had two be a dozen dead plants buried under the live ones. I think within a two foot area there were a dozen or so live plants. Yikes. And those roots are something else. I weigh 280 pounds and was jumping full force on the shovel trying to break through to sever a young yucca off the mother plant. I practically bounced off.
And my mom actually came out, looked at the thinned out plants, and wondered if she had someplace she could plant them. My incredulous "Do you have someplace else you want them to grow out of control??" did make her change her mind on that, thankfully.
This looks like the variety 'Dickson's Gold'.
It is relatively slow-growing. I would expect that it will get no larger than 30cm (12") across. It is not invasive. Campanula sp. (Bellflowers) are generally not the easiest to divide, but it is possible.
After Campanula, Serbian bellflower has been in the ground at least a year here in my milder climate it has spread & crept along so much that I can easily dig around the outsides to find rooted plants to transplant. This spring I potted up about a dozen of them around 2" x 1" and they bloomed in August as well as reblooming now since I cut the faded blooms off.
It is a cultivar of Dianthus barbatus, Sweet William, which is naturally a biennial but sometimes will persist. This variety is supposed to be more reliably persistent, but it is still a biennial at heart and therefore may not bloom the first year. I'd hang on and see if it performs next year before condemning it. It looks extremely healthy which bodes well.
Thanks for the post flora.
Given its apparent health I wasn't going to 'ditch it' but things were looking good early in the summer when one of the 4 grew a couple of taller stalks and then put forth those incomparably coloured flowers. But nothing from the other three plants and even the one that flowered retreated a few weeks after. But those flowers are worth waiting for.
Yes, I think dem pa was right. I'm pretty sure it's a Mexican Sunflower. One of the blossoms finally bloomed today. And, I have an empty seed packet in my seed packet storage. But, WHY die it take so long to bloom, and WHY is it 10 feet tall. The package says 4-6 feet.
I started the seeds indoors in early April and planted them out just past the frost date. I don't get it.
Any suggestions?
During most of the season, the foliage is a lovely low clump of deep-green, maple-like leaves under ~1 foot tall; it only becomes taller as flowering approaches in the late summer/early fall.
This clump of "Honorine Jobert" is in full sun; it'll give you a good idea of the natural growth habit of the plant during flowering:
Well I just checked on things and they look fine.
Under the snow the soil was still warm. In fact it was still warm enough that the bottom 3 inches of a tomato plant still has green leaves where it was buried in snow (that includes stems that were laying across the ground even though most of the plant is dead).
If tomato leaves/branches from underneath the snow cover are still green then it certainly didn't kill off any frost-hardy bulbs or roots that are 6 inches beneath the ground.
No signs of frost heaving anywhere - just some very wet soil, and lots of soggy tree leaves covering everything.
this is the "reddest" creeping phlox that I know of, that being said, it's still just a deep pink.
This site describes it as "Rose red flowers with darker red eye in spring."
Here is a link that might be useful: Phlox subulata Red Wing
When I last moved, in the middle of winter, I took the plants I'd dug up and piled them in the most sheltered spots I could find and heaped whatever snow I could find on them, and there may have been a blanket or two as well. For the plants that were dearest to me, I put them in the detached, unheated garage. Again, a couple may have even gotten a blanket. The garage-kept ones did best.
These days, I commonly end up putting a few things I haven't gotten around to planting in the garage. I make sure to throw a few handfuls of snow on top of the pots, especially in late winter/early spring, to make sure they don't totally dry out. Seems to work well.
We overwinter our pots also. We put them in a protected area in the back yard and cover them lightly with shredded leaves with more around the outside of the pots. Remember the most susceptible part of the plant (in pots) is the roots during the winter.
Paws
Same thing has happened to me and I live in Kansas. I had planted several new ones,funny tho" my Rozanne is still green and alive. Odd