Purple Martin season all but over.
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Yellow and purple all season bloom?
Comments (2)I found a beautiful purslane, it's yellow with a pink center, it bloomed it's little head off, does not need dead heading or water everyday like some plants. Another plant you might like is a desert rose, this would need to be brought in for winter but so worth having, doesn't not need much water. I don't know how large of an area you have but from the quantity of plants on your list I'm thinking it's large. One thing to keep in mind when using containers, these dry out faster but you can put mulch on top to help also bare in mind that dark colors heat up while light color pot's stay cooler, plastic is best, taracotta dries out unless you spray the inside with pruning spray that's for trees or paint the inside. Anything staying outside over winter would need plastic. Roses do well in pots too. You could be some of the mini roses, carpet roses or knockout roses and they can stay outside year around. Daylilies can be kept in pots too and man are there some beauties, narrowing it down to just a few might be hard but if you like yellow's and purples I think you'd be very happy with a few. There are some daylilies that get up to 3 feet tall so you could hind the pot behind other potted plants and have the daylily flower looming above the others. The daylily cannot be planted with others in a pot the roots need the room. Doing annuals that reseed is good but this would not work out well if your patio does not get rain water. This is what seeds rely on for growing next year. Although if your able to remember to water often it might work. I know I didn't stay within your color request but just thought I'd let you know there's lots of thing's you can grow in containers that you might not have been aware of. Hope you hear from you next spring on how the patio garden is going. Barb Here is a link that might be useful: detailed information on desert rose adenium odesum...See MoreMy Purple Martin colony is growing! LOL
Comments (5)Finally, this weekend, I saw some PM's at the cabin. One pair (?) so far. I didn't get to get a good look at them yet. So I hurried and opened their houses. Hopefully more show up this week. I'll be going back up Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. Leslie...See MorePurple Martin fledging starting
Comments (2)How exciting, caroline! When I'm lucky enough to see the actual fledging of baby bluebirds here, I'm sure angels are singing. Everything has been later than usual here this season. It stayed cool much later than usual and the summer hasn't been as hot as it usually is. Suits me, though, I'm not complaining!...See MoreMid-Season Purple Martin updates; 4 photos
Comments (3)Sorry Linda...I use too much jargon. Wait till my "AF Veteran" kicks in! LOL HOSP is English House Sparrow. The non-native scourge of all our native cavity nesters. ASY is an "After Second Year" Purple Martin. It's an adult. The year they hatch they are called HYs. Hatching Years. This fall my HYs will migrate to southern Brazil. When they come back next spring they will have their juvenile coloring and be called SY (Second Years) although they are now only one year old. It's the second year they've been in northern American though. A few SY females will breed and nest. An even smaller number of SY males may breed. Then next fall the SYs (2010) they again migrate back to Brazil and molt into their finally adult plumage. When they come back again, (Spring 2011) they will be fully mature, ready to successfully bred and be called ASYs....See Morecaroline94535
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