A small triumph
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Comments (21)Here it's a dreary day, having poured down during the night. I've gotten bad about paying attention to the weather forecasts. All I know is that somehow by Friday we're squeezing in THREE cold fronts. I wonder how that will work out. My paths need blowing SO badly. I continually think to myself I'm going to get the blower, but ha! Saying the words doesn't get it done even though it's such an easy job. My red camelia japonica that grows in a pot due to my at best neutral soil has one flower on it. It bloomed in November. I didn't know it would bloom again. Yesterday I really admired my Duquesa bush. It is so lovely and shapely about six feet across and four feet tall, hugging the 90-degree turn in the front sidewalk perfectly with lots of pretty, fragrant light peachy flowers. She is such a winner! Alas, poor Le Vesuve is a ratty version of itself with one large (1" diameter) cane dead and not much happening elsewhere. Methinks he is saying goodbye. Dare I think of a possible replacement, a big one since it's in the round center front bed? I feel I'm on the razor's edge of being a gardener or not being a gardener, continuing the garden or not continuing the garden, not knowing how to proceed. On the walk to the mailbox Hermosa's bright pink flowers always catch my eye right before her rangy, nearly naked canes do. Poor Darcy Bussell and SDLM are surrounded by weeds, and the driveway bed which has not been tended at all since May is a foot high with Bermuda grass thanks to my semi-abandoned neighbor's yard. I was startled a couple of days ago when I saw that the grass was blooming big whitish single flowers. Ahha! It wasn't the grass but rather Souv de St Anne's, unseen except for her blooms. So pretty. I don't even go out for the mail every day, so I barely know what's going on out there. I do think if I could just get the litter blown off the paths in the back I'd be happier and more confident about the future of it all. Poof! All done. Sherry Here is a link that might be useful: If only sweat were irrigation......See MoreJudd or Emerald Triumph Viburnum
Comments (11)whaas: Somewhere/sometime you may have mentioned where you garden, but I can't find it. Aside from knowing zone 5, I don't have much to go on in offering further advice here or on your other threads. You have divined the parentage of 'Emerald Triumph' accurately. If it overlaps in bloom time with 'Mohican' then it is a potential proper cross-pollinator. 'Summer Magic' is a decent clone of Blackhaw viburnum (Viburnum prunifolium), as are others like Forest RougeÂ, GuardianÂ, and OvationÂ. I'm growing three or four others, including Crimson RobeÂ, but it is still a small plant here so I'll reserve commentary. 'Summer Magic' produces bright red new shoots, and seems to be more upright in habit as a younger plant. Many times, this doesn't translate into permanently narrow plants, but may make it easier to prune for clearance if one starts early in the plant's life. A 10-12' tall plant at Bernheim Arboretum in KY is about 6' wide; a haystack type habit, if you will. Otherwise, the behavior of most blackhaws I've seen are pretty similar - very much like a standard crabapple habit. Eventually, reaching 20' x 20' in a rounded to mushroom shaped small tree, especially if limbed up in youth....See MoreCheap Vacation Watering Triumphs!
Comments (3)Hi, Phil, Thanks - glad to know it worked. I'm going to try it in my backyard. And the soda bottle idea is brilliant! Just the thing for my potted Daturas :) Hope you had a great vacation! Best, Jen...See MoreQuotes 4 - 28 - 15
Comments (3)I love to read poems, but manage to write only Limmericks once in a while, like Garrison Keilor....See More
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