transplant shock .. but it will be fine ... mid august is not the best time to be planting stock.. let alone heavily blooming stock ... if you HAVE TO BUY in august .... consider placing the pot in shade.. and tending to it.. and enjoying the show.. and then planting it.. after bloom is complete... in September ... you most likely shortened the flowering stage by planting ... regardless... the leaves look wonderful.. dont give it another thought.. but keep it properly watered thru late fall ken

I am off to the local nurseries this morning. I am going to take a chance and get the Lemon BES. It might rain this afternoon, so decided that today is my "shopping" day. I hate shopping. So hard to make up my mind. Many times I come home with plants completely different than what I planned to buy! Steven...hopefully I will have better luck. I'm sure if you were to plant it again, it would grow great for you! Your yard is just beautiful now and you have amended your soil a great deal! (Especially the back yard) :-) Bloominganne....yes I had planned to plant 2 clematis on it this year. Had checked with the nursery last fall to see if they were going to get in more Kivistic clematis, as last year they lost their grower. Yup, they would be getting some in. So I waited....then I stopped last week on Monday and they had come in late Friday and SOLD OUT over the weekend. So now it is another year to wait as I have not had good luck with mail order clematis. Memo...thank you. Yes, DH is really a sweetie. He has a few project he wants to work on this summer. One is to hang the 1859 bronze bell (we purchased last year) in a corner bed in the front of the house. He is thinking about building a brick arch to hang it in. Hopefully it won't grow legs and walk off that way! party_music....the plants at the nursery are quite good sized and are blooming beautifully. So...fingers crossed. The picture above was taken on May 30, 2005 but not much has really changed. Just that the cedar has weathered gray on the obelisk. My peonies are all up with lots of buds. I expect them to be blooming in about 2 weeks. We have a very sandy soil that warms quickly in spring. I am finding that everything really gets an early start here. I usually start picking my strawberries on Memorial Day weekend. The lilacs are blooming now and I baked fresh rhubarb pie last week. Much different than the clay soil we had 160 miles north of where we live now. It is a joy to garden here.

Carol, that looks exactly like it! My guess would have been Ratibida. Here's how to tell the difference (from the web): Ratibida pinnata has drooping rays, cones that emit an anise scent when crushed and deeply divided basal leaves. The similar species Rudbeckia hirta has stiff horizontal rays, unscented cones and un-lobed lance shaped basal leaves.

one of the base rules of perennial gardening... is make note.. and move the epic fails in fall or spring.. or winter in warmer climes.. a garden is never completely.. and eternally evolving... cut them back.. and then.... in mid to late sept.. or when appropriate where you are.. dig up the clump.. and move them... or swap them with the smaller ones.. you are not going to change the genetics of the plant to be able to keep them there. .and make yourself happy about it.. there is a current post just today... about cutting things back.. whihc is exactly what you should be doing... maybe someone can link it here for you... ken ps: wait.. you posted in the annuals forum.. are these annuals??.. if so.. yank them out and be done with them... lifes to short... the above is more perennial based logic.. obviously you dont move annuals in fall.. lol ... now you almost got me so confused about BESusans being annuals.. that i might look it up ... https://www.allaboutgardening.com/rudbeckia-annual-or-perennial/ well there you go.. they are all 3 .... back pre WWW days.. i wonder what the heck i was growing and calling BES.. lol ... well there a minute of my life i wont get back... all for a female plant married to a wife beater... whats that name all about....