dear liatris, will you ever bloom?
david883
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Comments (2)You might enjoy Mirabilis jalapa, (4'o'clocks) especially if you work during the day. Easy to grow from seed, and forms a large perennial tuber over time. You can keep or discard when frost threatens. Petunias might be a candidate although not everyone thinks their aroma is a good one, and not all petunias are fragrant. The Jasmine nitidum shrub I got a couple months ago has been blooming constantly. I would recommend smelling a bloom before buying though. The scent is different from the classic sambac. I love it, but have read comments from those who don't. Do you have any interest in savory aromas, or just floral? Some herbs can provide intense scents. (Say that 3 times really fast!)...See MoreDear Mme. P: it's not you, it's me
Comments (7)(Sigh). I loved my Mme P. but sent her to the compost bin in the sky last fall. One of the first roses I ever bought and I had no idea how huge she'd get. She consumed the center of a not so deep border and mugged my DH every time he mowed. She was beautiful but out of place in that border. We didn't have any other spot big enough to hold her so I decided to let her go and hope some day when we have a larger property I can buy another Mme P. and let her grow to her heart's content. Good luck moving her. I moved mine once from an apartment (can you image?) to our new house. That was hard enough but she was much younger and smaller at the time....See Moreestablishing Liatris punctata in caliche washes
Comments (37)There are several sites online that sell Little Bluestem seed by the pound. The commercially available seeds are: Aldous (Kansas) Cimmaron (Kansas, Oklahoma) Blaze (Nebraska) Camper (Kansas, Nebraska) I ordered some grass seed from Pase once. You get a very small amount of seed, I mean really small, like 25 seeds or less depending on the variety. The price is low but you really get what you pay for in this case. The B.S. seed sold from Plants of the SW is one that I can talk about since I planted it one year. The plants are very nice and light blue, classic bluestem with a good upright habit. The rule on starting grasses is: The first year they sleep, the second year they creep, the third year they leap. Bluestem seed germinates very easily but they really need warm weather. I'm trying some indoors this winter and the plants frankly look pretty dismal & haven't grown much at all in my sunny room with the south exposure. It gets a bit cold at night but I'm talking only 60 degrees. Its all but a failed experiment, I usually do much better in there with other seeds. I looked up King Ranch Bluestem. I think I've seen that growing on roadsides in waste areas or abandoned farms. The best way to tell if its bluestem at the seedling stage is that the leaves are VERY flat at the base and resemble Iris foliage, they always remind me of tiny iris. wiscons--agastache always dies on me in summer. It looks fine then up and dies. A woman on the Texas forum said the same thing happens to her every time. Maybe its the humidity? I don't know but last year was definitely my very last try since it was the supposedly 'easier' to grow 'more tolerant' cana type....See MoreIs this liatris a mutant?
Comments (4)I waited till it dried out to look at the structure better. There is no flattening or thickening of the stem anywhere. It's round all the way from top to bottom. It remained green right up till the same point as all the others. If this is fasciation it doesn't look like any of the pictures out there. In these pictures you can see the structure better: small spikes that emanate from near the bottom of the stem, then a larger area of short bloom spikes 2/3 of the way up, then the regular flower spike....See Moretepelus
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