Is Cananga fruticosa worth it?
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Ming Aralia (Polyscias fruticosa) care
Comments (39)I, too, love Polyscias! The last ones I bought were just the other night, in fact. I was browsing around Wal-Mart and went into the garden section (outside) as I always do just to look. Its now November and it was about 60 degrees but has been getting down into the 40's at night recently. Anyway, outside there were an assortment of tropical plants, the usuals. Then I look down and see 3 beautiful little variegated Balfour Aralias. I couldnt believe that I would find these at Wal-Mart, but they were outside and I couldnt stand to think they would spend another night in the cold so I bought them all at a whopping $5.88 a piece. They are about 5-6 inches tall and in nice little autumn tin containers. I found that to be a very pleasant score! Back on the topic of Aralias or Polyscias, I have several others, all of which are in a set of 3 large north facing windows. They get bright afternoon sun and they love it. I have 2 small fountains set up beside them for humidity and have all of them on wet pebble trays. I also mist them in the morning a few times a week. I allow all of them to dry out considerably before watering again. When I water, I drench and let all excess drain out. I keep all of mine in lightweight plastic greenhouse pots so that I can pull the rootball out and examine it every so often. I'm giving all of this advice because I have never had one complaint from any of my aralias, so I guess they are loving their environment. I keep the heat on 67 in the fall and winter and a/c on 76 in summer. I prune them usually late winter-early spring. As for the ones I currently have, I have 2 Mings (one scraggly looking one I purchased at Home Depot recently, now 4 variegated balfours, 1 4 foot parsley, and 2 small variegated parsleys. Can you tell I like Aralias? Hope some of this information helps. -Chris South Carolina...See MoreCananga fruticosa story (dwarf Ylang Ylang)
Comments (5)Hi, Kemistry. I'm sorry I didn't see your post before this. About the fragrance-- I haven't been able to catch any fragrance from it. There have been several flowers that matured and opened up, tho they didn't turn yellow-- stayed green and then fell off. I've tried mornings and evenings, and quite often at midday. We've had many, many very hot, humid days. I just don't get anything. Unfortunately, I believe my nose is losing its ability to detect a number of scents, so I can never be sure when it is the plant and when it's my nose. Sorry I can't be of more help. If I ever am able to catch a whiff from it, I will definitely report back here. The artabotrys hexapetalus I had five or so years ago had a wonderful rich scent of bananas plus a lot of other notes in it that started to waft about 2 or 3 in the afternoon. It was the richest, warmest, loveliest scent I had ever smelled, and this is what I was hoping to recapture....See More'Paint the Town' rose or Potentilla fruticosa 'Pink Beauty'?
Comments (18)Hi Bill, diggerdee, and paigect, Well, the best laid plans... I ended up with a yellow 'Victory' rose that I bought at... Stop & Shop! An impulse buy. I think it may be a sub-zero rose named 'Helen Hayes'. It bloomed until very late last year and is alive and doing well. It isn't the rose of my dreams, but it's attractive with red-edged green leaves. I'm hoping it doesn't get too large for the spot, but I'll move it if it does. (I need to look it up again.) But, speaking of Knockout roses... We were back at the Farmer's Daughter and there were a slew of them in all colors. My husband fell in love with the double cherry-red Knockout and I'm sure there's one in our future. The bushes at the Farmer's Daughter were some of the most attractive I've seen, but the price wasn't marked. They're so readily available that we opted to wait and look around. Who knows? Maybe we'll find one at Stop & Shop (grin.) Paigect, I'll definitely take a look at Flower Carpet roses. They sound wonderful. (And you can't have too many roses.) And, you mentioned peonies. I have a few but I've never smelled a peony I liked. Isn't that weird? I have lots of fragrant plants, but peonies smell like dusty attics, or worse! to me. There's something about my sense of smell. I'm very interested in fragrant azaleas. I've got R. viscosum and would love an R. arborescens, R. 'Pink and Sweet', and many, many more. Greer Gardens gets me drooling for native azaleas. So many plants, life is too short! (And let's not even mention money!) I bought a Dicentra s. 'Valentine' at the F's. D. and it really is a true red. I've got the white and pink varieties, and just got a small Dicentra scandens --the yellow climber. But I couldn't resist a red, red bleeding heart....See MoreDark Lance: Amorpha Fruticosa
Comments (6)I just saw Amorpha fruticosa at Petal Pushers Nursery in Cedar Hill today. $6.99 for a gallon pot. Seems like a good deal. I bought it at the Heard Native plant sale last week for $8 or $9. Speaking of Benny Simpson, I was at the Ft Worth Botanical Gardens last week and in the rose garden they had a stake with a sign on it with a quote from Benny Simpson. Something like: "Not every thing has to be native" Benny Simpson. That made me smile. :)...See More- 14 years ago
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