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Daisy, they can be forced to bloom any time of the year, but the plant may not survive afterwards. I plant them with roses and forget about them for the rest of the year. May is the month of their spectacular blooms! Tree peonies are really much taller and bigger than the herbaceous kind.
I believe your style and climate require more careful attention to combinations of plants, given the relative slow growth and gradual changes your garden goes through. Color and texture are so different. My garden goes from dirt to explosive green in about a month, then through multiple colors as flowers bloom, and then into brilliant fall colors, and back to dirt, and finally white for four months. You have managed your situation to perfection. Well done.
Martha
sounds like this is a business for you?
and you want us to solve your problem???
if you are doing this for the greater good.. i want to help ..
if you a re doing it for profit;.. and have no clue.. i dont want to help
ken
ps: i case you are doing this gratis.. riddle me this batman:
where are you?
soil?
mulch?
etc???
and any other info that will help us understand the situation....
you have basically given us nothing other than the watering regimen .... eh?
What will work in this situation is quite different in different areas. In my part of the country almost no one has sprinklers because we usually get regular rain and we are far enough north that many part sun plants do fine in full sun. But that is apparently not true for your area, so what Ken said about adding location information is important, including zone, how far north, the type of soil, and how much rain you usually get in spring and summer. Does water puddle in this area when the sprinklers are running, and if so how long does it take the surface water to soak in? Does your friend want all of one kind of plant or would he want a mixture of few to create a longer season of bloom and some foliage interest?
Beautiful pics everyone..Unfortunately I don't even think I will see the dirt in my yard until June at this rate..The western part of the states has been above normal for months while the eastern half has been way below normal..I don't see any change soon(( Love the pics..
Hmm, I don't see my user name, but if you see in the upper right "Your Houzz" and hover over that, you'll see a drop-down menu that includes Edit Your Profile. Oh! I just hovered over it to doublec-check my advice, and now I DO see my username in the drop-down! :)
I usually overwinter stuff in the garage w/o any problem, but just forgot to bring a few pots in - they're next to the garage just not in it. The pots usually freeze solid in the garage, so I wouldn't think there would be any difference, but wanted to see what you thought. You gave me Sleeping Beauty, and the Praying Hands from a couple years ago.
just get this in your head... winter will never kill a zone appropriate plant ... thats kinda the whole point of such ....
what kills them is the transition between winter and spring.. and how the pot holds water in frozen media ... when the plant is going in and out of dormancy ... along with hot sun on a black pot.. and then refreezing at night
ken
Thanks peren! DH got that as a 2 footer or so--it's a beast! The finches love to sit in it--they look like ornaments on the branches!
Pretty pics!
What am I hearing about posting out photos? Are they indeed then property of Houzz?
Thought I'd also read that we couldn't delete the photos if we desired to, anyone know or tried?
May have to ask...
Well, we can't post photos from Photobucket or Flikr. This is a real pain. I can find my stuff easily on Photobucket or Flikr, but it took me 35 minutes to find a photo that I wanted to post on the Antique Rose Forum this morning. The photos on my computer are in date order, but how do I remember which year I took a particular photo of a particular rose?
Well, here are some random photos of parts of my garden.
Daisy
Yes, well said Josephine.
Anyone who is under the impression anything is "private" on the internet is quite mistaken. No different on Houzz than anywhere else. If you're paranoid or upset about being "watched" or intruded upon, be very careful with devices such as OnStar -- you may well be being watched in the literal sense of the word. It is inescapable nowadays - that is the price for innovations in technology, and it's only going to get worse. Someone recently relayed a story stating that he was speeding and he was contacted (I want to say by OnStar but my memory is failing momentarily so I'm not 100% sure) WHILE DRIVING and informed that if he did not slow down the warranty on his vehicle would be void. WTF! Now *that* is being watched...
Plus, didn't we all get in an uproar when we found out GW had the rights to our posts/photos. Didn't last long, did it? People were soon back to posting photos as usual.
The link I gave goes to 814 Idylls threads.
floral - some of those 814 were one-off posts or posts that refer to the Idylls. The main Idyll threads are the ones that say ' Idyll # [title]. I see the Idyll conversations as being a digital version of the tradition of long-running (snail-mail historically) correspondence between gardeners that develops into friendship and expands to encompass non-gardening aspects of the correspondents lives. In that tradition, face-to-face meetings happen but the written word is at the heart of the relationship, along with the love of plants, gardens, and gardening regardless of how wide-ranging the topics of conversation become.
I find the FB format does not have the feel of a conversation - feels more like a series of monologues, so I only pop up briefly there now.