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I have silver mound artemesia that I planted last year. It's come back great this spring, but one is already starting to flop and wilt in the centre. Temps here are not hot yet. Should I give it a haircut or just cut out the 2 wilted branches in the centre? I thought it was too early for it to be doing this and wondered if it might have some other problem that's just beginning to show. Any help so appreciated.
Virginia bluebells get dug up for spring sales here. When I transplanted mine they wilted and disappeared a week or so later but returned this spring. I'm hoping the tiny seedlings I see in that area are more bluebells. Will have to let them grow a bit to tell.
Thank you all. My Mother's Day present was having the day to play in the garden. It was pouring rain, so I took advantage and moved quite a few V. Bluebell seedlings. There are still tons more that could be moved. Does anyone know how many years it takes before the seedlings bloom? I suspect they are like Trillium and take a number of years to mature to blooming stage.
Martha
note in cats pix ... how the daylight is different in each pic ... leaning more toward the diffuse dusk light i was talking about ... but for that one pic of the chard ... [cloudy days are good also]
i usually grab my camera .. digital ... and go tour the yard... an hour after dinner or so ... 7 to 8 oclock ... as i have found ... that the light at that time is extremely forgiving ... dawn also ...
when the sun is high in the sky ... forget about it ...
ken
could they have been greenhouse grown ... and you put them in direct sun???
on shipping shock .. and transplanting shock ... etc ..... look to the small newly emerging buds and leaves .. for the future .. and if they look fine.. dont worry about the plant sacrificing some of the older leaves ...
considering what it gone thru in the last month.. looks pretty fat and happy to me ... are you a worrier???
besides.... its a catmint.. i am not aware you can kill them.. without some hardcore malice.. lol ...
ken
Hmmm, the same thing almost happened to my Cobham Gold, I managed to save a few outer bits and having it up and growing again, we had a very mild winter but wet. I'm scratching my head over it because all the rest of the shastas are doing just fine.
I love shastas for that punch of white and... they all don't stink. 'Summer Snowball' one of my favs...
Annette
it looks like a verbascum to me. I googled (brilliant, I know!) large fuzzy gray leaved perennial and saw verbascum bombyciferum in the fourth or fifth row of pictures that sorta matched your picture. VERY interesting plant! If you google v...b... and look at the "images", it'll show it in different stages AND four in a row etc. YOU decide if you like it and want to keep it and its friends...verbascums can seed mightily!
sigh, after shrinkage and sinkage (?), I am looking at having to do the same with my large raised bed - already something of a nightmare to reach all parts without climbing into it. The seep holes I added when I built it have been losing soil for the past 3 years (although I have tried to toss it back in the bed) and the level is now underneath the coping, creating a perfect habitat/hotel for every mollusc in the area. After losing an entire tray of verbena stricta which was balanced on said coping, I have conceded defeat until autumn when I will take the whole thing apart and replant. 2 years of mild winters has increased our pest numbers to apocalyptic levels ...so much so that I am considering digging into my piggybank and buying some nematode slug treatments...which pains me as I am cheap, broke and constitutionally opposed to spending £££ on sprays and drenches.
Annoyingly, there is also a baptisia in this bed...but as it snivels under a large euonymous, it has remained minuscule(ish).
i wait too long during a miserable winter .. to ruin a good show ..
just mark it.. with a irrigation flag.. or surveyors tape ... jsut something bright ...
and as the show begins to fade.. just do.. what need be done ...
this is your second.. third.. 4th..post.. about tap roots ...
just do what you need to do ... and dont worry about such ... you gotta do.. what you gotta do ... and whatever happens.. happens.. to the plant ...
and you know.. on a 2 to 3 foot plant... you could probably leave it where it is.. and just taper the new soil down as you come to it.. so what if it APPEARS a bit short to standard ...
on some level.. you might be being a bit retentive on the level of soil .. ma nature is a bit less ..
keep up the good work ...
ken
Yes, the foliage is great. I had a baptisia in my old garden years ago and never really fell in love with it. Took up too much real estate for the short show. I got rid of it at some point in time and never missed it. Then I got a small start of 'Twilite Prairieblues' from the owner of my nursery who was growing on various baptisia cultivars for retail sale. WOW! It took off, bloomed like crazy the first year and hasn't stopped impressing me since. Has gotten really big over the last three years and I noticed dozens of flower buds when I was weeding that area a couple of days ago. Should be quite a show with its bicolored violet-blue and yellow flowers. Can't wait!
Baptisia 'Twilite Prairieblues'
A couple more...
closer
Some type of ground cover? Next pic is closer up
I have answered this latest selection on your duplicate post. Have you put up a different picture of the top one or is it a closer view of the same plant? If the latter I would but a tentative? on my id of oregano. I can't gauge the scale. Does it smell when crushed?