Season Slowing Ongoing. Four More Blooming
organic_kitten
8 years ago
Pink Gingham had first blooms...these look a bit bedraggled...got to get the snail bait out.
A Munson, Samurai Silk
The beautiful and much loved Wild Cherry Wine
Not at all the best, but typical for its' first bloom, Cat Balou...the petals curved under later in the day. She said it too two days to bloom, but only the first one did that last year:
Colorado Moonstone and Purple Mask were blooming again, but I have to show you the clump of Fernstone:
And Bob Watson's season has started too
Each I the last two days, I have had new ones. Louisiana Jones and Betty Ford both appear ready to bloom, but another one may be next as there are scapes everywhere.
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ruthz
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Gardenia 'Four Seasons'?
Comments (5)I have grown Gardenia 'August Beauty' with great success here in W. PA zone 5/6. It came from Wayside five years ago as a one gallon 10" tall little shrub. As it continued to grow it was potted (taken in during the winter here), in consecutively larger pots until coming to its max size in a 22" pot! It is about 4'X4', and blooms continuously. There will always be a few flowers on the bush, and when heavy flushes come, about twice a year, you can count over 90 open flowers at once on the bush. It is one cast iron Gardenia, whose relatives all gave me headaches over the years...camelia scale, spider mites, chlorosis, etc., but G. 'August Beauty' is exceptional in all these categories. I have never had to spray the bush even once. It is a heavy feeder and drinker, and I gladly oblige it. Giving it everything good one can, both inorganically and organically, especially a bloom booster liquid feed, and an acid loving liquid feed every so often on a strict schedule, to keep the leaves a deep green and the blooms coming. I put in in cold storage during winter in a fruit cellar where it never goes below freezing but stays damp and cold from November/December to March/April depending on how early or late spring or fall is that year. It doesn't drop a leaf during storage and just sits there in almost total darkness! When it is brought out in the sun after I think it is safe, it just continues growing like nothing ever happened. Every single Gardenia I have grown for over 40 years has been a headache and disappointment until this one. I highly recommend it. It can also take some frost, and I let it get a few light freezes in the fall before I bring it in just to slow it down, and also kill any overwintering insects on it. The only negative thing about it, and gardenias in general is that their woody parts are very brittle and when grown in pot culture as I have to practice, one has to site and manage the plant so that it does not blow over in heavy winds. Every time it blows over a good branch is at risk of being snapped off. When this happens the bush look lop-sided until it fills in, which it does in time. Happy Gardenia Hunting Rootman...See MoreWhat is meant by 'four real seasons'
Comments (30)Where I grew up we had Hurricane season and recovering from Hurricane season. Here on Colorado's Front Range the seasons are perfect. We have 4 seasons. Just about the time you are getting tired of the activities associated with the current season, the weather changes and you have a new season. Our winters are not unbearable. Except for this year, when it snows it's usually 4-10 inches in one day and the sun is shining braightly the next day and melts it all. We only get snow every 3 weeks or so. The fall is wonderful with color and dry, cool days. Spring is when everything turns into amazing, bright colors. The days are still cool and everyone is out riding bikes and beginning to do lots of outdoor activities. And our summers never get really hot. We have several days in the upper 90's, but our humidity is usually in the single digits and very little rain. And, if you want a REAL winter, you can just drive a short distance (less than 60 minutes) into the mountains and have more snow than you'll ever need. In the summer if the heat is too bad, just drive right back into the mountains where the heat rarely reaches 90....See MoreThe season is slowing starting
Comments (8)The secret garden is a work in progress. Right now it has only the 4 martagons in it. It can get really dry with all those mature pine trees sucking up the moisture (which the martagons don't like), but we keep them watered and they have bloomed for us for three years now. I eventually want to add some more colors. The garden needs a lot of work. It has downed pine branches and some weeds, but the pine needles that are dropped by the trees keep it relatively free of weeds. You do have to watch out for poison ivy though. Bob is terribly allergic to it so we keep a spray bottle of round-up in the gator at all time....See MoreThe season is definitely slowing down…..some lates
Comments (9)It seems your season just started, Sherry! I like the velvety look on Storm Shelter. Witch's Stick bloom is indeed very nice. Orchid Corsage looks very good with the rudbeckia but I can relate to the nuisance part. My Goldstrum rudbeckia makes quite a statement this time of year but has completely overrun some of my daylilies. I need to corral it in a dedicated spot or get in there and dig out my daylilies!...See More
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