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Comments (3)Unfortunately, while a lot of Carex varieties are making it into our marketplace, there still isn't much care and maintenance information available. I play it by ear with mine. If I can make the plant look better with a raking and just trimming out winter-damaged leaves, I just do that. If the plant suffered the winter, I cut it back, when I first notice new growth. I trim it to just over the height of the new growth. Larger varieties, like C. muskingumensis, get trimmed back every year, and respond just fine. I use the same practice as above...trim to just above new growth. Mature clumps of C. grayii get the same treatment....See MoreExperiments to propogate hardy Stewartias
Comments (1)Hey, Rockman, thanks for posting this info. I have propagated my Stewartia by cuttings (actually, I only have one cutting rooted) and it took over a year to root. I had to dip the cutting in hormone 3 times before the cutting rooted. Keep us posted if you see any other info like this. Thanks, Mike...See MoreUsing ornamental quince for pectin
Comments (9)Well, mellyofthesouth, I'll be experimenting with the same this week! I don't know if I will combine the quince with something else. Both plum and peach are still possible, if I can beat the birds to them, but I might get just a couple jars of quince jelly. Our quince taste like pears to me, so jelly would be a pleasant flavor. I usually make jam because I feel wasteful throwing out the pulp. But for quince, I think I'd go ahead and send the pulp to the compost due to the lignin bits. Is that what Floral and Dave mean by "pips", or are "pips" the seeds?...See Morethe poop on ornamental Rheum?
Comments (11)so another brief update, "it`s all your fault", well, at least partially..., thanks, GW fellow nerds :-) we could plant in April and May of this spring, wheather was unusually cold and rainy afterwards, so that helped I put in quite a lot of Bistorta amplexicaule and Hemerocallis (landscape types) in 3 cultivars to give bling for the first season, I suggested to add some bedding plants: Basil African Blue, Thitonia and Dahlias (single flowered, Duplex?) I was tickled pink by the display put on by the Hemerocallis, bare root plants from an organic grower with a nice collection and after the summer holidays, when I took a look after a 3 weeks break, the Helianthus really had done a proper "jump", filling in the space around the baby Paulownia they are supposed to be H salicifolis orgyalis, which should stay slightly shorter and not flop over, in the long run they probably get overwhelmed by the maturing Paulownias or get shovel pruned at a certain point next year the vegetation should cover all the soil and the Cogygria will get coppiced, for the first season they were just thinned out slightly and corrected. from today it is near a museum, the white statue is an enlargened copy of a rather tiny paper original by Picasso and I even added 3 golden gloriously kitchy Catalpa, thanks Floral for that "flea in my ear" or bee in my bonnet ;-)...See Morejewels_ks
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