A strange spring
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Comments (5)I have yet to get any significant blossom blight, but my impression of the brown rot lifecycle is it is easiest to shut it out early than to try to fight it later in the season. The only year I ever had bad brown rot was last year, and there were horrible continuous warm rains last spring and I did not spray very much then either. Previous years I had done many more spring sprays (trying to shut down a bad case of shot-hole) and I never had brown rot then. Since last year was so bad I did one spray of Orbit at pink and plan on using the Saf-T-Side/Serenade combo for the rest of the summer. Scott...See MoreStrange spring
Comments (11)I'm losing a lot to canker, sadly I am going to have to pull out a few bushes that are just too infected. As expected in my small group, the English roses are thriving, but most of my hybrid teas except the evidently hardy Mirandy are limping along. Reine des Violettes, a battered mercy purchase from K-mart last year, is loaded with deep maroon buds. So overall, the shrubby ones are doing great, and the hybrid teas are limping. Also noticed the outburst of sawflies - disgusting, wish I had caught it earlier but it was raining too much - they did a lot of damage and will be spraying this weekend - also have aphids but they are easier to cope with. I guess Maryland must be out of its water shortage by now!!!...See MoreWANTED: Have: euphorbia chariacas Wolfenii, petasites, and
Comments (0)phyllostachys bamboo. If you are in or near the Eugene OR area, you can have all the clumps or rhyzomes you want. Warning: the euphorbia will spread throughout the garden and yard if not deadheaded, but is easy to pull up; the petasites are invasive and need to be kept in a container or they will send roots throughout the yard; and the bamboo is a slow running type. The euphorbia will grow to 4 to 5 ft and is a wonderful speciman plant. The petasites have huge tropical-looking leaves and strange spring flowers; it is eaten in Japan and called Japanese butterburr.. The bamboo, which I will be digging soon, makes a lovely, tall, hardy screen with fairly large culms. I planted it 9 years ago and it just recently began to spread, so I'm cleaning it up and putting in barriers. I purchased the bamboo from a local specialty bamboo grower, but I misplaced the species name. It isn't the ordinary skinny rampant bamboo you often see. I'm not asking anything in trade, but if you have something to share I will gladly take it....See MoreSome Spring Pictures
Comments (12)Thank you all so much for your nice comments. Very few people actually see (or appreciate) my garden, so it's a great pleasure to share it here with other passionate gardeners. I'll try to see if I have a picture that shows more of the rock. It's about 30 feet across and the whole structure, which tapers to a lower height and is less solid rock and more decomposed granite, is about 150 feet long. Ingrid...See More- 28 days ago
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