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Thanks to my neighbor, who planted a package of wildflower seeds next to my south fence, I now have a whole bed full of this. Comes up where you least expect it, and now has migrated to my vege garden. This morning I found some in a bed clear across the yard. If she hadn't moved, I would now be commiting neighborcide.
catkinZ8a - the setting is the allotments i.e. community garden where I have a plot. The jungle in the background is neighbouring plots so I have no control over them. But the little bay tree is mine. It grew from a berry that came with leaves I used for mulch.
Flora, there's that *borrowed landscape* thing you've going on! I think it looks great--even/especially with the composters! What do you use for carbon in your composters? I have a bale of straw I layer with grass/herbaceous clippings but I'm not as fanatic about creating compost as I could be...I admire your seed sowing abilities!
give it time ...
wonder if you may have planted it too deep ...
but why would you replant the same thing.. if this one failed????
perhaps you ought to try again ... but if this one fails.. move on ...
BTW.. are you that space crunched.. that you couldnt plant a second plant .... a foot over ... do you really need that exact hole ???
ken
Because I really like the plant... Who said anything about the exact hole ?? The one that is up is not near this one and is the yellow variety.. This one is orange. I don't know exactly where it should be and there is a ground cover growing there also. I wonder if the ground cover is causing problems. I try to clear some of it but don't want to strip the entire area since I don't remember the pinpoint exact location of the tuberosa
Guys, thank you for all your comments so far. I examine them carefully today again, it seems that their color change during their growth. They started with bright shiny red, then as they grow, they change to reddish with black or yellow lines, some of them even have a pair of small wings.
I seriously doubt a water spray would do much to them, as I saw them fall onto ground to escape my fingers, then climbing back quickly. I guess I could try neem oil, but if these turn out to be some sort of beetles, would neem oil still work?
I believe them to be the nymph of one of the true bugs........who knows which one from the poor image. Quite a few begin their lives with red/black coloring.
Certainly not a ladybug, and I'm not getting an aphid vibe.
I'm attaching a link to several pages of true bug nymph images. See if YOU can identify your little critters, since we can only speculate without a better picture.
You'll have fun looking through the pages! Let us know what you find out.
Blanket flower: I bought my first one last summer, it bloomed into November..fell in love with that little plant; and bought seeds to winter sow.
I heard that they do not overwinter well, and good drainage is a must, I put leaf mulch on to try and help them thru the winter. My plant came back, and is growing well. Bare roots that I bought: 1 red one come back, 3 others (same variety) did not (planted in mid Oct. when received). I'm happy some of mine made it thru the winter. HOpe yours is just a little late surfacing!
I lost a three year old "Beth" mum to the awful winter we had. Loved the deep wine purple color and my daughter is a Beth, so it was special to me. There is a no id yellow growing next to it, going gangbusters, so I don't know what happened to "Beth." I'll have a devil of a time finding another one since this one came in a trade. None of my mums were planted last fall and some look really good, others are a bit sparse.
I too wish local garden centers would sell small pots of mums this time of year so we could get them established.
I'm going next door and see if I can get some cuttings from my neighbor to start tomorrow.
Linda
Tiffany, i noticed on your profile page you list beautiful and interesting foliage as one of your big passions. That is something that has always interested me, too. I love to make plant combinations that feature interesting contrast in leaf texture and color when grouped together. One area of my new garden that gets full sun has tango tangerine alstroemeria, south seas daylillies, russian sage, oh so easy paprika rose, julia child rose, and purple verbena in it. I've been looking for something with black foliage to add in there. Have you had any experience with sedum knight rider? I am tempted to try it because i think the color and texture of the leaves would make a pretty contrast. And it's just about the right height (around 24"). Best of all, they claim it stays upright and doesn't flop out in the middle like a lot of the taller sedums do. The only thing that makes me hesitate is the flower color. I can't decide if it would clash horribly with the yellows and oranges of some of its neighbors.
Marie, I have the black hoses with brass fittings and really like them. This is the 2nd year and I've already used them A LOT with this dry weather. I use them to hand water the front cottage area and all my pots and then the back shade gardens near the house and pots on the back deck. So you know what type of areas I'm doing. So easy to manage I really like them. Much sturdier than the green ones, of which I have one left that seems to be holding up OK, but is leaking. Brass fittings are much better. You also get nozzles with the hoses and there are five or six settings. I do like the nozzles a lot too. They're not that inexpensive, but for the hand watering I need to do, so much easier. Mike uses the heavy rubber hoses for the sprinklers. Those are great too, but not for lugging around. I cursed a lot when I had to use those, and I mean, the really bad words. Now the hand watering is a cinch and dare I say, a pleasure.
I should have mentioned we don't have crazy strong water pressure. Not sure how the innards of these hoses would hold up if high pressure on full. If you have high pressure, I would imagine not turning the water on all the way might be safest. The nozzles shoot the water quite far.