Did Your PowWow Wild Berry Echinacea Survive The Winter?
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Comments (9)Following is part of an article on vernilization: I'm wondering if WSing achieves this? This is different from Stratification. I bring it here for those who have had trouble with Columbine, notice what is said... Micki The flowering of many cold-hardy herbaceous perennials is initiated by an extended period of cold, known as a vernalization treatment. Some perennials will not flower without a cold treatment, while others flower more rapidly and have a stronger flowering response (such as more flowers) when provided with a cold treatment. This article contains tips for successful vernalization treatments of cold-hardy (USDA Zone 6 or higher) perennials that are propagated by seeds or cuttings. Most perennials propagated by cuttings can be satisfactorily cooled in their plug trays. However, some perennials propagated by seed must develop a minimum number of leaves before they become sensitive to a cold treatment. For example, several varieties of columbine (aquilegia) should have at least 8-10 leaves per plant (not per cell) before starting a cold treatment. Less mature plants may be juvenile and not responsive to the cooling treatment. In many cases, subsequent flowering is improved when plants are cooled in larger plug sizes rather than smaller ones. Highest plant quality, regardless of propagation technique, is usually achieved when plants are planted in their final containers, allowed to grow for three weeks or more at warm temperatures and then cooled. Effective Temperature Ranges In the past five years, researchers at Michigan State University (especially Beth Fausey, Sonali Padhye and Art Cameron) have methodically quantified how many perennials respond to a range of cooling temperatures and durations (visit www.hrt.msu.edu/floraoe/articles.htm for more info). The most effective cooling temperature range for a large number of species was between 41� and 46� F, especially when short durations (4 or 6 weeks) of cooling were provided. With longer cooling durations, the effective temperature range broadened. In general, 6-8 weeks of cooling at 41� F saturates the vernalization response of nearly all species; however, a few exceptions exist....See Morepow wow wildberry echinacea from Seed in Chicago
Comments (10)I would definately start them now, you'll get good growth now and then come springtime they will have the established root systems needed to really explode into growth and flower. I usually start them in a flat of soil or in pots in a spot that doesn't get more than a couple hours of sun. You can move them to a sunnier spot later. The biggest problems will be drying out and bugs such as slugs. A cover of either light cloth or plastic will help keep in the moisture, just be careful of the plastic getting too hot in the sun. Don't over it all the way of your not sure. Transplant them into the ground as soon as they're a decent size, a good mulch after the first freeze will protect them from frost heaving up out of the ground over winter.... Dry leaves, evergreen branches.... I just got an email from one of the seed catalogs reminding people what a good time summer is to start perennials.... Here's the quote, it's copied right out of the link I attached. "Many people donâÂÂt realize how much floral beauty can be had for just a few dollars. Growing perennials and biennials from seed a year in advance in early summer is inexpensive, remarkably easy and incredibly rewarding. ThereâÂÂs no need to fuss with grow lights and timers, repotting or hardening off. Simply sow the seeds into moist growing mix and set the flats or pots outdoors in a sunny protected area. Or easier yet, simply sow the seeds directly into a little nursery bed right in the garden. Water and weed them as needed over the summer. By fall, the seedlings will be large enough to either stay in a nursery bed until spring, or be transplanted directly into their ultimate home" Here is a link that might be useful: Summer seed starting...See MoreMixing Wild Berry & White PowWow Coneflowers in a planting group?
Comments (2)Hi CEFreeman, I read your posts on the Kitchen Forum, I hadn't realized I could find you here also! Thanks for your response. The pictures I have found of white being a contrast color (such as in a field or bouquet) to blue or red or pink (or whatever) show a mixture of individual flowers. The white breaks up the visual, causing the color to pop, and not be all the same color. You are right, it is stunning. But these echinacea are not single bulbs, but a grouping of white and another grouping of the wildberry color. It is very hard to find any photos online where they are grouped together, and when they are (such as this photo), they still look like a row (although a few whites seem to have gotten in the back of the berry in the photo). I am finding it hard to imagine a 'circle' where they would mingle, because the spread of each is 12 - 18 inches, making a grouping of one color. If you planted them closer together, I think it would just look crowded, not mixed anywhere except at the overlap point. I think that would look sloppy and careless, not pretty and wild, plus it wouldn't be as good for the plant to not let it reach its potential width. I hope I am explaining it so that it makes sense. Thanks again for your input, and any thoughts in helping me to imagine how they may look when filled in. Maybe I can do a white grouping, a berry, a white, a berry, and a white. Even though they would be in a row, and look a little like an alternating checkerboard, it is the closest I can imagine to a pattern with one color offsetting the other....See MoreSo how did your winter go?
Comments (3)This was a good winter to see what is really hardy here. The australian cassias (nemophylla and phyllodena) were both frozen to the roots. They sure were fun cutting back - not! I just had to prune out a lot of winter damage on our Cordia parvifolia, little leafed cordia. That bush is the worst to prune because all the branches grow at right angles, what a mess but I adore the plant. Something about the white crepe paper blooms against the smoky grey leaves that come all through the heat of summer. And a plant that is unfazed by reflected heat here in Las Vegas is quite a find. It's relative Cordia boissieri, Texas olive, took a much bigger hit. It was just going from a bush to a tree and then we had this cold winter. It has been killed back to the main trunk. I think all the side branches are dead. I'm going to give it more time before pruning but it doesn't look good. We saw one in the northwest that looked fine so it is just our nice little cold spot microclimate here. Webers agave, and octopus agave were total losses in our yard but it was fun going to Turner greenhouses and finding replacements by seeing what was still standing there. Now if only our horse hadn't broken into our yard and tried to take a few bites out of the replacements! The bouganvillea froze to the ground but that happens every year and it popped right up this spring like it always does. We took down the old trellis though and better get up a new one if we don't want it sprawling all over as it is such a fast grower. The myoporum, anaother australian plant looked dead after our cold but it is coming back nicely and I can barely tell that it got damaged. We lost a few other australian plants, some of them can be tender and our beautiful tree acacia pendula still has perfectly brown leaves hanging on and has made no move at leafing out and neither has our acacia shafneri. The least thing they could do is let loose of all those awful looking dried up leaves! One plant that surprised me was our lantanas that always come back but not after this winter. Replaced the ones in the back with more drought tolerant Dalea greggii but the one in the front I love where it is so just got another white one to recreate that look against our grey wall. Love the look of white agaist grey. Drahme when you say cranberry tree I don't know what you mean, I only know the thanksgiving berries and I know those don't come off a tree. A different world up north. Beca, those vines do have a way of taking over the yard. At my husbands step mom's house she is in the process of taking out a huge mass of vines that took over the walls and then started on the garden. She is going to need a dumpster for all that vegetation. Happy gardening, Maria...See More
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8 years ago
Michaela (Zone 5b - Iowa)
8 years agoMine did - they are shorter than my other cone flowers, but they also are in more shade too. There are a ton of seedlings in that area that I believe are the pow wows... I'm hoping!
User thanked Michaela (Zone 5b - Iowa)junco1102
8 years agoI've been very happy with my Pow Wow Wild Berry. I planted them three years ago and they have survived a couple of very dry summers and cold winters.
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8 years agosunnyborders
8 years agoHave bought PowWow Wild Berry and White over the last four or so years. They seem quite hardy here.
This year, several of our PowWow seem unusually tall. Pictures below today. Some of the stems of the Wild Berry and the White have reached 40 inches in height.
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8 years ago
FrozeBudd_z3/4
8 years agoI have many of these that I've grown from seed, a simple task that's easy on the pocketbook! I like growing them out in numbers and selecting the best of the lot.
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8 years agolast modified: 8 years agoMine has looked like this since mid July here in central Oklahoma. Not much Pow Wow for the buck in our hot summers. Like I said, its thirsty and doesn't seem to like the heat down here. It punks out early, did the same thing last year but yes, it survives winter. I'm sticking with the unimproved types, no molly coddling here even though I have taken pity on it and watered it every week since I have a salvia close by I'm trying to get established. Otherwise, even the foliage would be toast.
Since we are asking how'd they do.....I give it a low rating. To be fair, I have just about come to the conclusion that your summer further north is like our spring. These don't do summer here, down here I consider it a spring bloomer.
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