My Dr, Seuss blooms just dried up that opened last Saturday. Today so that was seven days but another flush is coming in a couple weeks and my pink brug will be ready to bloom again about Oct 22. They always seem to be doing a flush when the first frost occurs and most the time the first frost it is on the 3rd Sunday of Oct. (?) It depends a lot on the weather. After 4 days the first hot day is likely to fry them and also sooner if it is dry so water good at a blooming period. The mid summer bloomings can be only 4 days but cool weather can be up to 10 days in my 2 year experience. If it wasn't induced by a sudden weather change there will be some buds that are lagging for a few more days.

My plant is only 5 years old planted in an E exposure. It hasn't been a heavy bloomer for me. I get 20-25 large blossoms in the spring. It hasn't rebloomed for me in the past, but I see this year it is starting to rebloom. As the plant matures you should get more blooms. After it's initial bloom you can fertilize it and give it water and hope for a rebloom. I love the flowers and grow it with a golden jasmine, so for me less flowers in with the golden jasmine looks better than a solid mass of flowers. So it works for me. I am sure as your plant matures you will get more flowers. I am.

Hi Maifleur, I see you have stuck with me for a loong time! Thank you for that! After I received your post, I thoroughly examined the plant. It appears that I have only one main stem, with three forks. I see little buds in the forks! The rest of the plant is small stems emerging from the soil, but not thick stems, with no forks. The greenery is very healthy... This plant has not been trimmed at all. However, it is possible that some lawn fertilizer has gotten into it. I'll have to ask my husband (who is in charge of the lawn) to make sure no lawn fertilizer gets into the rose garden, which I have kept organic. No sprays of any kind! They are adjacent so this must be the problem.... I will research and keep my eye on the buds. How large do the buds get and is there an online source to see a photo of a good bud? It was so exciting to see the buds forming in the forks! Like a major discovery for me! Thank you again for your kind response. I appreciate your expertise.

Hi Sophie , First the young pink Cherry Blossum trees , are they new ones growing away from the tree or are they up close to the tree or out in the lawn or on the tree trunk? If they are, usually they are suckers and may or may not grow true . A lot of nurseries that do the initial grafting use apple trees for the root and up to where the graft is performed. What that means is that is most fruit trees are grafted onto other tree roots and trunk . If the suckers are growing above the graft they may be cherry , if below the graft they would be whatever variety of tree the nursery used for grafting . If they have been grown from seed then perhaps they can be dug with their own root stalk . They should be able to be divided and may come true . More info on Cherry Tree suckers can be found here in some informative discussions http://www.growsonyou.com/question/show/12695-problem-with-the-roots-of-my-cherry-tree You could try rooting these suckers but my thoughts are it would take a long time to get roots even with a number 3 rooting hormone usually used for woody plants. It would require taking the cutting , dipping in the hormone , planting and firming the earth around the cutting and then somehow keeping it covered with a bottle or a clear lid and keeping the soil uniformly moist (never let it dry out ) and once you see new growth you would know it is rooted. It definitely would take some time . Second I am curious to know which Rose of Sharon you are talking about with yellow blooms and that do not grow like a tree. Can you send a picture please . The only Rose of Sharon I am aware of are small trees. So you have my curiousity aroused. Bleeding hearts should be fairly straight forward , Dig , pull plant out and divide . There maybe individual plants in the clump it would require taking a good look ( washing off some of the dirt ) to see . If it is all one plant you can slice through the root taking care not to damage the brittle roots . Actually there was a discussion about this on gardenweb in 2006 here is the link : http://forums.gardenweb.com/discussions/2153394/bleeding-hearts-getting-too-big-when-how Hope this helps and I hope to find out about yellow Rose of Sharon plants??? Signet