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It was variegated/dappled. I have only one picture which shows it in the background. If it was grafted, then over one winter ALL branches reverted at once. I purchased it last year, and it looked completely normal. Below is a photo of it last year, in the background:
Here is a detail of the leaves, as well as a photo showing it's not just from the area of the graft.
The tags are still on it. To make it worse, i have TWO of them, all doing the same thing. Purchased, planted at same time.
Mine were grown from cuttings but same as you they started off just green but their new growth has started pushing and that part is variegated. Yours just seem to be foliage emerging from last year growth and that part will be green. It’s what happens to unpruned dappled willows, I didn’t prune mine either. I would wait another few weeks to see
Not sure how much of a difference it makes with your zone 6 New England with my zone 7 but here my sanguisorba officinalis have been up since late march and they are about 1.5 ft tall now and still growing
I grew some shorter varieties from seed last year. We'll see how they do at bloom time. I can't remember where I planted them!
these threads are good archives as it seems i dont remember what i did or reported!
ill stop looking near the birdbath and look around Litl’Kim. I ll replace Pink Elephant if it died but start the rabbit spray immediately.
4=30-2024:
Looks like I have a 'One of a Kind' pine in growing in my yard.
Every winter bud is sending out a candle, every single one. I believe it's trying to emulate the parent broom, at least to a certain extent.
I'm elated! :-)
Top of tree: The main leader has pushed a stumpy short center dividing the two sets of candles, just like last year. And every center bud has multiple secondary buds protruding radially around the center. There might be a side branch or two with only one bud. I'll have to look again.
Middle branch:
Lowest branch almost touching the ground:
This was the scrubbiest tree of the whole batch.
Is it just me or are the nodes very close together on this tree?
5-2-2024:
Cool with light rain falling but I had to take a closer look at my Pinus b.
There were some places that single buds existed.
These primarily were on smaller 'sprigs' and twigless clusters of needles.
I saw several like the picture below. A very short sprig or cluster of needles with expanding bud.
Even more atypical was the epicormic shoots coming straight out of the trunk in multiple spots.
There are some sprouts (double & single) on the sprigs with the unusual needle fascicles.
A few extra pictures:
We should know a bit more after it warms up.
8^)
Update. Only 1 germinated in pots and this year they are finally of decent size and bloom
rouge that is gorgeous - I wouldn't even need blooms on that!
Heruga I am surprised you only got one to germinate. One of my garden customers had bleeding hearts that reseeded quite freely. I was always moving the little seedlings to other parts of the garden. (Although, this did surprise me, as I had a bleeding heart that in 15 years never produced one seedling.) I'm sorry you only got that one but hopefully it will continue to grow into a nice-sized plant!
:)
Dee
Rosaprimula, I totally get that feeling although I don't have that many years in experience and not quite there yet in age. I did a lot of stuff from seed and cuttings at first but the past year or so I started becoming more 'lazy' and impatient on plants for my garden that I just started buying plants from the nursery and just planting it. Seeing established, nice and dense gardens from people in this forum makes me want to achieve that asap. But with self propagated plants I have to wait many years until I see any progress.
Rouge, is that a seed grown one? If so you got lucky! It's so bright I didn't even see the white flowers until I zoomed in the pic
Diggerdee, I rarely ever see any bleeding heart seedlings around here. Not sure what the difference is between the ones you see and I see. Can't say its climate either since you're not that far from me. But with this one I sowed it on flats and left it alone for the whole winter. Maybe I should've winter sowed it for better results
Around where I live most houses are not made of brick. But a lot of churches are and they really fascinate me. 2 weeks ago I passed a historical town while on the job and saw one church completely brick and covered in english ivy. Seeing classic looking settings like that just take me back in time that I never got to experience. I love the victorian looks of it and I wish there were more houses like that around here. So excited to visit UK for the first time in my life next month
Do you like painted brick? I do. I like natural unpainted and painted brick. I wouldn't paint my brick house because eventually it would have to be repainted. But I have seen many painted brick homes around here that look fantastic. They're usually white or cream.
Nearby there's a huge old brick factory building about a city block long. It used to be cream color but last year they painted it stark white with black trim around the many windows. It looks great. Most of the buildings downtown ( I can walk to downtown) are brick, the middle school is brick and they just built a two or three story huge addition to it in brick. The Post Office is brick. The police station is rock mortared together. There are a fair amount of rock houses around here.
Where I live, bricks are used, but are non structural. Just cladding. They build office buildings with bricks with a weathered appearance. They bricks are new, but they look 100 years old. And then they add modern black shiny windows. So the building looks part new, part 100 years old. The houses have brick fronts and the other 3 sides are siding. Looks good when looking front on, but at an angle, it looks bad. All siding looks better IMO.
With my kabocha I get pantyhose or any piece of loose cloth, cut them and cover the fruit and tie them on the trellis. As far as training the plant to grow vertically, as soon as I see new growth over 6 inches after planting I will start tying them on the trellis with garden wire and just keep tying them to the top until they are able to support themselves.
I don’t have pics of my kabocha with cloth tied to it but here is the same example I do with my melons.
This is before I tied it with cloth(don’t have a pic of kabocha with cloth)
Hopefully the borers don't get to it this year.. I may start them in the ground late June-early July to avoid them
Every squash I grow send sout roots into the ground at each leaf node. Sometimes I let it grow over concrete, gravel and bricks in my garden walk. Those vines never do as good. One year I have a massive zuccinni vine 40 feet long. I noticed the base where it originally came out of the ground looked rough. On closer investigation it was completely gone. Huge vine many huge zuc's and zero nutrients from original stem/roots! That was eye opening.
I suspect the missing extra roots are why.
I grow over a long run of landscape fabric, so no rooting along stem nodes in my case
Looks nice and healthy.
But it's just getting started. Once the root system gets established, it'll really take off.
You could do some 'Candle Pruning'. That will slow it down for a few years.
I think it is blight. My golden guineas were nearly defoliated last year from it(spots on leaves and stems) and was worried they may not make it but came back this year fresh! I prefer these much more than forsythias.
Last year I removed a huge forsythia mess in my yard. Was probably close to 40 years old. It was constantly trying to take over everything. I found a big fairy rose growing under it. I think I planted it 20 years ago and it got swallowed. Somehow, it was very healthy. I kept it and it looks great.
Charles, I had the same experience. Our house was built in the 50s and I think the Forsythia was part of the original planting by the builder. And that was 20 years before we moved in and it was another 10 before we decided to remove it. I wasn't really gardening other than veggies at that point or I suppose I could have maintained it better.
I think the fact I have such a small garden has a lot to do with it. One quarter acre doesn't give you a lot of room and everything you grow has to earn it's keep.
I did have a neighbor who used it as a hedge and pruned it hard into horizontal lines and I just thought it was so ugly.
It was a lot of work getting it out of there, I remember.
I started sorrel(I'm assuming rumex acetosa?) from seeds years ago so I can eat it but never actually got around to harvesting it. I moved them to my new house 2 years after I started from seed but is not as vigorous here.. doesn't seed for me either. Thanks for sharing the recipe, I might take some this year if they grow big enough. Right now they are just starting to show new growth and tiny
lat62 - Thanks for your recipe as well. It looks delicious, too. I'll have to try it once I have more sorrel.
Love the way Richard Olney writes the recipe, especially the wine description.
@Heruga (7a Northern NJ)
You're correct: there's no official "banned for sale" list of plants in NJ. It was proposed in recent legislation but vetoed by the governor:
Another lathyrus...this one pink:
Gold Heart:
White Gold:
Peony season has begun.
i have some lovely flowers but i feel jealous that rabbits dont decimate Rouge’s lathyrus or that spring comes earlier to zone 7 and that Erasmus has such stunning clems while i am digging up dead ones.
Here are my early May offerings:
Epimedium Cupreum
A Polly Hill azalea i call ”Katie’s” because former poster here ”runktrun” (Katie)
gave it to me. She died about a year ago. Beneath it is lovely epi Pink Champagne.
how’d the garbage cans get into the photo.?