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This is L. keiskei at Dancing Oaks in November. I bought one from them based on the excellent winter color of this plant. I bet they still have nice sized plants available.
My neighbors had some 'Burning Love' Leucothoe (Leucothoe keiskei ‘Opstal 50’ PP27132) installed last summer. So far they look good in our zone 7. Leucothoe in general seem to like good drainage, good air circulation and part to full shade. I've grown a number of other varieties that got fungal leaf spot. Extended cool wet weather can make it worse. 'Burning Love' is supposed to be more heat-tolerant.
Jim Putnam featured it in this video. He's in Raleigh, so SE VA should be comparable.
Ratibida species, perhaps?
My first and instant thought was "coreopsis", though I won't make a stab at the species. But Jay is correct much more than he is wrong, lol.
Looks like a coreopsis to me as well - aren't there thread-leaf and narrow leaved varieties?
You'll know for sure when it flowers, I think - and it looks like it's sending up a flower stalk to me...
Slugs are my number one non-climate issue, too. I have tiny slugs less than 1/8" literally too small for me to easily see, destroying every single seedling as they germinate in my raised veggie beds. We don't have the big 5" slugs here like in Seattle, the adults here are never over 1.5", but these little ones are worse, much more difficult to hunt (and I hunt, boy do I hunt!) but they seem to do just as much damage as the big ones. It doesn't take much of a slug to demolish a radish seedling the first day after it germinates!
In my Seattle garden it was woodlice destroying my seedlings, so here in Oregon I built my raised beds with concrete block instead of wood, to discourage woodlice. It worked, no woodlice at all --but the slugs have picked up the torch and are sprinting with it!
Sadly slugs and snails are not deterred by coffee grounds around plants. They happily attack my hostas even when the soil is entirely covered in them. https://www.gardenmyths.com/getting-rid-slugs-coffee-grounds/
As for spraying coffee on foliage, I believe the experiments were done with a caffeine solution, not brewed coffee. And in a wet climate spraying anything is a hiding to nothing. I'd be applying it everyday.
I've just removed three of my giant garden snails from a clematis obelisk. I cleared it yesterday too. And the day before ...
I'm sure you have done research and have tried a number of things, but don't give up, all you need is ONE way that works. Seek and you shall find.... 🙂
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I didn't examine this Abies closely, too busy taking pictures. The display gardens at Sebright are overflowing with extremely rare and well-grown woody plants. That said, I would guess its one plant, I've seen a lot of mature dwarf conifers with this habit, spreading out on the ground, but then also reaching for the sky in one or two places, if the gardener allows it! I would guess the tallest part is about 4'.
Thank you ainn! I must wait until the revamp work is done before choosing plants but I’m leaning to yellow as that’s what was there & showed nicely - yellow grasses. This pic is from 2016 so things have changed. Dogwood in back replaced with yellow euyonomous & blue needle plant (podocarpus?) larger. We’re taking out the flat stones & replacing with 3 basalt columns, max 3’ high & a basalt basin for bird bath. Will reuse the flat stones in the base /bed of the rocked area. Will also move that chimney pot with the sedge in it. Having 12 year old pump replaced as will need more lift for height of colums. Goal is easier maintenance to blow off fir needles from the huge old growth firs over the fence. The flatter surface instead of just the rocks.
Consistently removing any top growth by mowing will weaken the seedlings, as you are removing any ability to photosynthesize. If they can't photosynthesize, they cannot survive and will die off. Pretty much the same way chopping down a tree will prevent photosynthesis and eventually cause death.
Should just happen easier and faster with seedlings.
@artinnature, I have both of those blue rhodies, but they are not blooming for me yet in Seattle. How much sun are they getting? Do you like Bob's blue?
They're in sun from about 11am until sundown. I like Bobs Blue a lot. The flower color isn't nearly as saturated as Blue Baron, but it blooms heavily. All of these Lepidotes have non-green foliage in winter, and I noticed this winter that Bob's Blue has the most attractive winter foliage color of all of them, a hard to describe dark, glistening purplish-bronze. Some look muddy and nearly dead in winter. This is normal but unfortunate, in some cases. If you grow them in a lot of shade the foliage will probably be greener.
It took a bit of sleuthing but yes, it appears they are the same plant. Peter R. Kolster, a major Dutch plant breeder, is the developer of both the Everlasting and/or Magical series of hydrangeas. Why they are sold under both trademark names is anybody's guess. The Everlasting version is patented but did not see a patent associated for Magical.
Here's a previous discussion: https://www.houzz.com/discussions/2001261/hydrangea-macrophylla-hokomarevo-ppaf
I agree it's all very confusing. The European breeders have these weird cultivar names which are then converted into trademarked anglicized names for the US consumer market. Impossible to know what's what!! Essentially the same plant under multiple names.
OK, good...thanks you two. I'm addicted to plants and gardening, not this type of sleuthing. And I sure am surprised this plant has been around so long, that discussion is 10 years old and plant even older.
You mean like this? Yeah I like the look a lot.
@artinnature Yes, that looks great with Conifers.
I need to add a cool color, I have a single red and double. medium pink.
I posted a photo of it in my post: "We Wants It!" It really is shockingly colorful in spring, at least it is in the nursery pot! I have not grown it but I think others on my thread said the fall color is very good too.
I see the thread now
That pics doesn't even convey how goooooorgeous it looks in person
OMG, imagine if it was that color all year round. Wishful thinking eh.
I think we had the same reaction....it was the only tree that sung to us while @ the yard
I agree, my photo doesn't convey the actual brilliance. Must see in person.