Blooms on Thursday with storms predicted again
Julia WV (6b)
5 years ago
Started out to take photos only to find my camera not working after taking a few photos. hmmm, did I check the battery before starting out? No. Problem solved. LOL.
Rain has started now so I guess I timed it perfectly to get some photos today.
FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN - I've loved this daylily from the start and it never fails me. Scapes look to be just a about right for the registered height of 22". I plan to move this to the back garden after it finishes blooming.
INHERITED WEALTH - I missed, I think, posting this so here is another bloom. This planting is huge
so I need to divide it if I plan to keep.
SOUTH SEAS- I will most likely move this one out of the garden. Not for performance but I have to remove some to better manage.
FREEDOMS TRIUMPH - perfect first opening. Moving this to the back garden.
COUNT IT ALL JOY - opened with a duo today. Very tall scapes this year.
ROSE MASTERPIECE - opening with a trio. Lighter in color tone this season. I moved it last fall so hoping for better next year.
MEAN GREEN - Opening today.
More in comments as I don't want to push my luck.
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Comments (15)Kay you are right I thought Cosmic Traveler was the wrong color also. It was a bonus plant from the grower and that's what was on the tag. I guess I just have to add another Niod to the list. Thanks to everyone for all the nice comments and Caramel says thanks to. Caramel wandered into the yard one day with Little Boy and after a little trip to the vet to change their outlooks on life they both joined the cat family. Linda...See MoreAsiatic and Day Lilies - Snow Prediction
Comments (1)The snow won't hurt them, but extended cold (below freezing) might, especially the asiatics. The daylilies are pretty tough and will be fine. If the new growth on the DL's freezes they'll recover and put out new growth. The asiatics, though are a little touchier. If there's enough snow to cover them, they'll be fine. Otherwise you might want to throw some mulch down over them, just be sure to pull it off again as soon as possible. Again, the snow won't hurt them, but freezing temps could destroy this year's blooms. A lot depends on how cold, for how long and where they are located. Near a building could gain them a few degrees of warmth....See MoreSunday morning temps not as low as predicted
Comments (17)I don't know if this tidbit of info will help any, but your Mesonet station is listed as being 4 miles north of Jay. Carol, I was thinking that the lake probably gives you some lake effect heating.....with that very large body of water absorbing sunlight and heat all day and then releasing it at night as the lake cools. I think it very well could keep your nights a couple of degrees warmer. I only scattered a little hay over the onion bed, which probably wasn't even necessary, but I wanted them covered if the snow reached us, which it didn't. Even though our temps went down to 26, the cannas, which are up 6"-8", didn't even show any damage. It will be a while before I'll know if the fruit it going to abort--sometimes it can take a week or two for it to happen. I had the tomatoes out in the sun and wind for an hour yesterday, and will increase that to two today. After being inside for several days, I'm starting all over with the hardening off process, which is a drag, but I'd rather be safe than sorry. The peppers can go out when nights are staying above 50 degrees. Technically, it is exposure to cold in the lower 40s that stunts them and causes them to be unproductive, but I play it safe and keep them inside until we're completely out of the 40s. For planting purposes, the pepper roots may be damaged if plants are set out in soil temperatures lower than 55 degrees. I usually transplant peppers a week or two after tomatoes so I can be sure the ground and the air are warm to stay. I usually have tomato plants in the ground by now, but then I have to cover them up a lot at night and uncover them in the morning, so I am trying and trying to hold off and wait. Easter weather always makes me nervous because it seems like we always have a late cold spell the week before or after Easter. I hope the weather allows the plants to stay out too, so you don't have to carry them in and out every day while your son is in town. How nice that he'll be in town to visit! I always start way too many seeds too and then I have to figure out what to do with all the plants. I am ready to play in the dirt, but the wind is brutal outside today. I hope March gets her act together and "goes out like a lamb" and that April weather acts like April weather and not like March weather. The coyotes are up and running like mad and there are lots of them this year. They are so loud, and so close to the house, that their howling wakes me up in the middle of the night. The three does who have been bringing the 4 fawns to the yard to eat all winter have only come once in the last 4 days and their absence is because of the coyotes, so we probably won't see them much any more. I miss seeing the fawns--it is fun to watch them "grow up". Despite the rain and higher humidity that we had for a few days, would you believe we still had grassfires every day? I will be glad when we get a more significant greenup so we won't have so many fires here in this county. As long as there is dry, dormant vegetation still standing (and there's tons of it in the unmowed and ungrazed pastures here), though, there is fire danger. Our humidity dropped to 23% yesterday which is pretty low for spring, but it was much lower in southwestern OK. Wind, wind, go away! I don't know if it is blowing hard everywhere, but here at our house it is very high today. Dawn...See MoreHere we go again! Historic winter storm for Mid Atlantic
Comments (66)Long day. Its finally stopped about 11PM. 12" here, and probably very close to that at National Airport. Still lots of wind and blowing and drifting, but the skies are now clear. Yesterday, up until about 4am it was a "warm storm" with temps around 32. Its been below 20F since about 8am here. The snow held and held and held on for longer than expected. This was definitely the storm of a lifetime, EVEN IF we had not had the 2 feet here last weekend, just the sheer conditions this storm produced, especially the whiteouts, and the near hurricane force winds along with 4-6 foot drifts, countless downed trees...etc. etc. etc. was a once in a lifetime event here in the Mid Atlantic. However, since we did have 2 feet on the ground already, it was just all the more historic. TZ7, Be safe! I hope you guys dont get it as bad as we did here, especially in terms of the winds. Many of our streets look like the photos you posted, and some were with downed traffic signals. Post more pics if you can! Suffice it to say, all of my palms, including the large trachy in the pot wrapped in plactic and xmas lights, are buried. The in ground palms were buried as of last saturday, and now they are under 3 feet. My smaller trachy unfortunately had spear pull, although that may be more attributed to the fact I left the xmas lights on it one day when we hit 49, and the palm cooked to well over 100F im sure. It somewhat dessicated after that, and has not looked good since. I think these storms just pushed it over the edge. Well see if I cant get it to come back. Ok Im going to bed. Ill post more photos tomorrow. Night all! Be safe....See More
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