Huntington Gardens, got Doris Taylor
socks
7 years ago
Hooray----I was fortunate to be able to go to the Huntington gardens plant sale today. To be honest, I'm satisfied with my succulent collection since I have a little sampling of a variety of plants. I know, it's unbelievable. However, I don't have a fuzzy one, and so picked up a Doris Taylor today. A couple questions:
1. Does Doris Taylor have any special care requirements? In my zone, the echies seem to prefer a little less than full sun, but I wonder if Doris Taylor could take full sun since it's shaded by "fur."
2. The pot is heavy, wondering about it being too wet. (The lower left leaf is firm.) Wondering if I should repot.
3. Is the sprout a plant or a flower?
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figuring out sun and how much sun!?!
Comments (24)Hi Julianna - Of COURSE I'm interested in what you're growing! This "bright shade" situation is most interesting and will require experimenting. I started this thread LESS than a month ago and already I see a difference in the number of hours the back of my balconies get sun. On the same token, the sun spots for the items hanging off the balcony are also lengthening. Right now, due to the containers I used for most of my succulents being bulky, they've been placed to the back of my patio where they get a brightness all day long (bright shade, as you called it) but direct sun is for but an hour plus a day? I have to wait and see how these do moving forward... This is balcony 1 -- the one with full sun up front. I bought a bunch of those white balcony pot hanging thingamagics -- and it's pretty useful. It's smaller than balcony 2, but deeper. What's not shown is that further in to the left, you have two shelves full of plants--where most of the succulents are as well as my infamous gardenia, which Purple has been helping me with, haha. This was taken moments ago and today is a bit stormy and cloudy but it's still bright out there at 3:30 pm. This is balcony 2. It's significantly wider with about 3-4 feet MORE to the left than is shown here; that part is obviously full shade. The remainder is all less full sun than balcony 1 and in the afternoon, it quickly goes into no sun as to the right of this balcony, the building juts out with an overhang to the lobby area below. That seems to block out the sun instantly. Unlike you, my area requires me to bring in virtually nothing as we rarely hit 40* and if a plant's lowest tolerance is 50* (which is basically our entire winter) -- then either I don't get it, or it evolves quickly, haha. Thank God, because my house is full enough with houseplants -- I need outside plants to come in like I need a hole in the head. I was browsing some ferns yesterday! Are they hard to grow? I have a Venus Maidenhair here inside, but I don't believe I've ever had ferns in my yard. In the past when I had homes, I've usually had full sun and have much, much less experience with shade plants. I'm messing with the idea of hostas and I'm definitely getting some coleus and begonias, but on balcony 2 - where most of my shade gardening would be -- you can see that the depth of the balcony is minimal; putting large pots out there means no walking area. This puts a damper in my idea of creating cascading containers w/ spillers, etc. I might have room for... uh, ONE. After all of this, I'm of the mindset to move back to a house, haha. I find myself driving around town and looking at homes to figure out, "Is that yard facing south? No, wait...east?" It's sad, really!! Your post is missing photos. I'd love to see!!!!!!!!!!!! -Grace....See MoreWishing the garden clock would stop
Comments (23)Yeah Nannadoll, my first Hollyhocks are from seed too. I have no idea what I just bought in a little package (hahaha, probably seeds in dirt!) - at Lowes for some black red Hollyhocks that interested me. But you're right, I'm sure there is no bulb involved! Kitty, I must get down to see Huntington and Nuccio's. I'm definitely setting a goal to get to the Sac. Cemetary in April - I'm just not missing that again. I have no excuse - it's only a 1 1/2 hr drive. Well - this weekend I planted my Pink Perfection, but not Nuccio's Gem or Taylor's Perfection. I got the Pansies and Hyacinths in the ground, but not the Orange Tree (that should really take priority!) But I did trim some horse feet (which I'm getting behind on again). I think I'm resigning myself to mulch when I fertilize in March cause I don't see that I'm going to have time before then. Then the manure piles are getting huge again waiting for me to spread them. Weekend gone, back to work today. But HURRAH - next weekend is a 3 day weekend!!!...See MoreNorthern Rosarians What's on Order?
Comments (43)Now see, you all give me a great purpose for being here on Gardenweb, and Ratdogheads nailed it - I'm obviously here to make you all look entirely reasonable and appropriate in your own rose obsessions to your friends and family. "Gee honey, I may have ordered a lot of roses this year, but I'M NOT AS BAD AS CYNTHIA..." Feel free to use me as the Ogre if it gets you out of the Rose Doghouse. I'm fortunately still a piker in terms of numbers of roses compared to Beth in California, so I'm not rose obsessed exactly. Nope, not even when I stopped by last night when I had an hour to kill and bought yet 12 MORE roses at various big box stores (but they had Waiheke...). This does force me to be efficient at rose planting, which isn't a bad thing since I can move through about 40 roses in a day as long as they're not bare roots (took 2 whole days to plant 40 bare roots last weekend). As I say, good soil makes this possible, not to mention the whole 2" of rain we got over the week that took the ground from rock-hard to nice and fluffy again. No AnneCecelia, I have no help in the garden most years and I usually plant in the hundreds of roses, not to mention vegetable and fruit beds. Just this year my teenaged daughter has volunteered to help me premix the manure and alfalfa and soil conditioner into 5-gallon pots (35 or so at a time) which greatly cuts down my down time, since I can spend all mine rose planting. Even as bored as she gets however, she's not willing to wade into the rose beds, since they're not only closely planted but chock full of tulips and other bulbs blooming this time of year (see, I'm not that obsessed with roses, there are also bulbs and daylilies!). And BraveRichard, & Holly I don't really have all that much space either - my front yard is average suburbia and my back yard about double average - it's just that I plant pretty closely and clearly don't know when enough is enough. I'll take a picture of the whole yard when things get rolling in spring to show it's densely packed rather than huge. Sara and Kelly - you definitely have your work cut out for you as well, since you have your own long lists! Kelly, I'd say you definitely need a rose fence around the edge since I counted at least 10 roses that will climb for you even in zone 4, starting and most definitely with Quadra. Don't let him get out of hand. Mudpie, Star of the Republic wasn't on my ARE list for this year, but I planted it from them last year. So far it hasn't done much, but it's not in prime real estate. The one from ARE that knocked my socks off was Rockwall Sesquicentennial. My word, that rose hit the ground running and bloomed most of the season pretty thickly. I'm waiting for more good things from that rose this second year, and it's not in prime real estate either. You are all cordially invited for a visit any time, and things will probably get nice in early June this year. There's a lot of surviving rose cane, so it's liable to be a good rose year. The only requirement is that I get to turn the tables and stop by to see your yards! Nothing rose gardeners like better than to share their best with other rose gardeners - heck, that's the reason GW roses exists! Cynthia...See MoreYour experiences with roses from my Wishlist please.
Comments (44)@pink rose(9b, FL ) thank you for listing the varieties that work for you! I love Easy Does It! It has been on my wishlist for years. I need to order at least three to start! @Kristine LeGault 8a pnw my husband's family is from Hattiesburg. By chance is your mom's side a Lampton or a Conerly? They have a long lineage in the Burg. And Natchez is so gorgeous and romantic! With delicious tamales! @User Thanks for the Zephy warning! Do you by chance have an alternate recommendation that might work in my area? @erasmus_gw your Shelia's Perfume is beautiful and hypnotizing! Where do you garden? If she blackspots for you, I'm wondering if she will be a mess for me. Your Zephy is glorious! @rosecanadian thanks for the encouragement! I will need to try both for sure! And thank you for the complements! To be honest I was very impatient with Sally her first year, but her second year she blew me away. I'm so grateful I didn't make any rash desicions after that first year and shovel her! EEK! PS I just ordered a Perfume Breeze from RU based on your pics and rec. I hope it works in my zone. I feel like we have similar taste in fragrance so I'm pumped!...See More
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6 years agolast modified: 6 years agoI'm disappointed in the plant and myself too!
Doris has not seemed to thrive or grow at all in 3 weeks. It has lost several leaves on the bottom, turn yellow and shrivel. When I pushed the skewer in today, the whole plant rocked like it's just the same root ball as when I repotted it, no additional root development. It was very wet when I brought it home.
My plan is to repot in clay, keep in the shade several weeks. Questions:
Clip off furry bloom so it can focus on roots?
The rootball wasn't too big. Should I get a smaller pot?
Unpot and let it rest that way in the shade 24 hours or so before repotting?
i know plants can be killed with too much fussing, and I don't want to do that either.
Failing leaf on the right. Brown tips in center are ok? Not mushy.
PS I did just water it. 50/50 c&s, pumice
stanofh 10a Hayward,Ca S.F. bay area
6 years agosocks
6 years agolast modified: 6 years ago
Kara 9b SF Bay Area CA
6 years agolast modified: 6 years agoI have the hardest time with those dang fuzzy Echeverias:). Can't seem to figure it out. I get them every once in awhile. I baby them. Then they die. Always:).
Yesterday I was picking thru my Jade and I must have shoved a cutting in there. I have a few spots where I just shove cuttings into. My jade is one spot because the sun blocks out the harsh sun. Guess what I have a living fuzzy Echeveria. I am shocked. It's probably alive because I didn't know it was there. Watch now I know it's there it will die;).
socks
6 years ago
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