Two plants growing in my frontyard... can you name them?
Javier Turek
7 years ago
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Why are my dahlias not growing and can I save them?
Comments (4)I've shared in the wealth of northwest wetness! Hasn't this been about the buggiest year that you've seen? I don't recall ever being kept so busy trying to spread organic pesticides. Once I get the pest stuff where it belongs so it can do it's job . . . multiple days of rain. So the next spell when it doesn't rain, I'm back out baiting, spraying, spreading . . . . Not my favorite year for dahlias. Particularly during the last month of July and I haven't seen my first bloom open. But finally, there's a little color in a few buds. I've noticed that a dose of fish fertilizer every couple weeks does enhance growth in my garden. But I don't want blooms until my plants are large enough to support them. With the boost given by the fish fertilizer, finally I have a large number of plants that both have buds, and are healthy enough to support a bloom. The downside of the fish fertilizer is the lovely smell I am never quite careful enough so as to not bring it back into the house with me....See MoreCan you name this critter on my squash plants?!
Comments (3)yes they are the culprit.. sucking the vital juices of the plant completely out of the leaves.. and as the population spikes ... they can and will decimate whole plants ... watched it happen to some free range gourds last year ... ken...See MoreGot my first baby rubber plant! Can I split it, to get two plants
Comments (1)Your plant is a Peperomia obtusifolia, aka 'Baby Rubber Plant'. But that name is a bit unhelpful as 'Rubber Plant' usually denotes Ficus elastica and until I saw the picture I thought you had a baby one of those ;-). They are very easy to propagate just by cutting pieces off at a node and inserting in growing medium, or even a glass of water. You'll find plenty of help if you have more questions over on the House Plant Forum which is much livelier than this one. Here is a link that might be useful: House Plant Forum...See Morecan you grow two climbers together?
Comments (13)Thanks for the comments folks - I like this view and wish it would stay like this longer in the year! It's a little hard to tell exactly which roses are which summersrhythm, since I let everything mix up together. I don't like visual segregation either, as JJpeace says - give me "rose chaos" every time! At a guess, from the left I think I see Compassion (light pink), Bonica (medium pink) and maybe a little Caldwell Pink from the far side of the fence, mixed with Madame Bovary climber (also medium pink), with Laguna (dark pink), Red Riding Hood at the feet (red), Ghislaine de Feligonde (cream/apricot small flowers), Elina (light yellow) mixing with Frau Eva Schubert (light pink) and Larry Daniels poking over the fence (pink), blending into some of the hybrid musks cream/apricot to the right, probably Cornelia and Felicia, but one could be Guirlande d'Amour. The nice thing about all this is they seem to do this reasonably happily in part sun under limbed up pine trees. The edge of the fence you see stretches out into some sun, but you can see the lamium is quite happy at the feet (groundcover) as are multiple hostas and other shade plants. Climbers are great because they can reach up for some sun, but they don't rebloom as often as in more intense sun conditions. Ah well, I have a lot of fence to fill, so I'm not complaining. Anyway, Gibsongirl - feel free to keep us posted on progress and have fun with your plans. Cynthia...See MoreJay 6a Chicago
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