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marie_louise
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Comments (5)I'm quite partial to Streptocarpella (easy, beautiful, orchid-like blooms from spring to fall and responds very well to pruning) and Torenia 'clown' (blooms all summer & is easy to grow). Both plants will allow you to fuss over them as you deadhead and pinch them to keep them compact. Al...See MorePicking climbing roses and the structure to go with them
Comments (9)I don't have any personal experience with it, but this climber - Isabella Skinner - is supposed to be hardy into at least zone 4 (& maybe more). It's not a climbing rose most people have heard of, but apparently the few who grow it like it. It was bred (in the early 1960's?) by a Canadian from Manitoba who was trying to create roses hardy enough for his climate. It's bred from a tea rose, a floribunda rose, and a wild Siberian rose (Rosa laxa). I've emailed briefly with the Utah nursery that will send it to people from other parts of the USA, and from that conversation I suspect it will grow for you on a 4' high fence. It's fragrant, it reblooms during the summer, and I suspect it will be hardy enough for you. Oh, and it also has very few thorns. As I said, I have no personal experience with it, but I'm intrigued enough by it to mention it for your consideration. (I have a big climbing rose I need to replace. When I have the $$ to do so I'm planning to replace City of York with Isabella Skinner/Victorian Memory. City of York is just too big and too thorny for my location.)...See MoreIf you had to pick just one?
Comments (10)Our most popular fig (and we grow commercially in zone 7 a next to Dulles Airport Northern, Va, is what we call Champagne, but some call verte. Unfortunately we did not realise what a demand there would be for it, so only have about thirty trees, but we are adding another 50 this year. Our second most popular is brunswick - but it has issues with splitting some years, but a huge producer and 2nd best for our customers (and we sell both retail and wholesale to some of the best restaurants in the area, including Inn at Little Washington, Girasole, etc.) We have a nice interesting white fig wild collected in mountains of Bulgaria - people either really like it or do not like it..... Excellent for us as has a very large late crop, but no breba. We grow 4 other varieties we sell commercially, and have another ten or so which seem not to appeal a great deal to people, so will probably be replanted with champagne. We always keep two of everything in case someone really likes it or tastes change. For us, early-on big issue was reliable hardiness and good production, why we wound up with so many varieties, names of some of which have been lost (if one can trust the names in the first place). Anyone still looking, we have a fig festival in September where numerous varieties can be tasted, along with what we consider a very good pure balsamic vinegar.Figs make a great vinegar and great way to use up extras or split....See MoreJust when things were going so well....so it seemed
Comments (10)RJ, From your continual complaints about whiteflies, your infestation must be out of control. If it's as advanced as your complaints seem to make it, your infestation is beyond your plants ability to outgrow it without some help from insecticides. Insecticidal control can be difficult with whiteflies because they're resistant to some of the synthetic insecticides recommended for other garden pests. Always read and follow label directions when using insecticides. And find out whether the insecticide you're going to use is effective against the target pest. Before using a product for whiteflies, make sure it's really whiteflies that are infesting your tomato plants. If it is whiteflies, you could try horticultural oils which work by smothering the white fly effectively at all stages of this pest. Insecticidal soap or neem oil can be used to spot treat areas heavily infested by white flies. It worked for me earlier this summer. When applying the insecticidal soap or neem oil, make sure you cover the infested areas. The immature stages of white fly are easily overlooked because they are usually pale, nearly translucent and tend to blend with the color of the leaves to which they are attached. The first instar nymphs, which resemble small mealybugs, only move a short distance from the egg before flattening themselves against the leaf to feed. The remaining nymphal (developmental) stages do not move and may appear similar to other scale insects. You want to smother as many of the nymphs as you can with your insecticidal soap or neem application. You probably can't get them all, but you should inspect the leaves of your tomatoes and adjacent plants for the eggs and nymphs. Get'm before they hatch into adult whiteflies which live for one to two months and are just plain bothersome....See Moremarie_louise
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