The Awful Heat and the Bodacious Blooming Continues:
organic_kitten
4 years ago
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I have a gift plant that I kept and I am glad. It is called Grape is My Favorite Color: It has a purple, not a wine color to it which is not a color I get often enough in the steamy south:
I am going to try to add Purple Tarantula since the comment post speeded up about halfway through:
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What Roses of Yours Are Blooming in This Awful Heat?
Comments (36)I have a lot of things blooming. Mind you they don't last long and sometimes they look a little crispy. But they're blooming! Paradise, actually looks good Cherish, opens and drops Knockout, well that's kinda a given Angel Face, opens and wilts, lol Hot Cocoa, lasts pretty well but the edges crisp Iobelle, seems to like the heat as well as the cold Crimson Bouquet, a blooming machine Veterans' Honor, impervious to the heat Folklore, Gorgeous! Garden Party, lovely with a tad of the crisps Trump Card, Wow, looks great and hasn't crisped at all Home Run, eh, it's another kind of KO Zenaitta, polys seem to like the heat, covered in sprays Granada, opens and blows quick Golden Wings, tons of blooms but they wilt fast Dainty Bess, same as above Rose de Rescht, they're beautiful in the morning when she's in the shade, by afternoon they look literally melted Winter Sunset, another Buck like Iobelle that seems to laugh at the heat And two other Buck roses doing well in the heat are Rural Rhythm and Country Music. Funny that the roses supposedly bred for winter hardiness are all fairing so well in blistering heat and humidity. Golden Celebration, usually slow to open is just flying apart Julia Child is about to bloom so we'll see. The minis have more or less just shut down except for the micro, Cinderella! The other surprising thing is that even with the humidity so high I'm not having much problem with the roses balling. I don't have amy PM and very little black spot too! Although I did see some aphids this morning but since I was going to blast them all with some cold water to cool them off I figured that would take care of them....See MoreJune 2015 what looks good/bad/awful in your garden?
Comments (77)Here's a couple pics of two of my Mango trees that were planted in ground this early spring. They're both doing quite well despite the extreme temps and no extra shading. Usually new young tropical fruit trees need sun protection on their first few summers here to get acclimated but these ones don't seem like they need it. They're throwing out new growth all over the place with only minor sun burn on the older leaves. Mango 'Lemon Zest' Mango 'Coconut cream' I threw several good Manila mango seeds in pots and a few are starting to sprout now. I'm going to dig a few deep holes in the ground and transfer these in fall to get their taproots to start growing deep. They'll probably going to grow much better than the grafted ones without taproots. Elephant ear fig is doing very well too. No sign of sun burn on these big leaves. I'll plant out a few more of these in the front yard in the fall. My Longan tree is doing well too in the heat. Full sun all day and flushing new growth. My Shell Gingers are finally starting to take off. These guys really like the heat. I've had them in ground for more than 7 months now, started them from rhizomes. Very slow growing, I was expecting them to grow as fast as my Canna lilies. Afternoon shade is recommended for these guys. The one's I have in full sun all day aren't as good looking as these ones that get afternoon shade. Lots of water and rich organic soil is a must. I can't wait until they get to 7+ft tall and flowering. I can't wait for the monsoon rains to roll in! I'm tired of watering every day! LOL...See MoreJuly 2015 what looks good/bad/awful/wonderful in your garden?
Comments (21)OK, I have uploaded all my pictures and written most of my comments down twice now and had issues where safari reloaded and wiped out my post making me start over. Im going to do this in 3 or 4 seperate posts in case it happens again so I wont have to start over completely. My pineapples are doing great. I tried to force them to fruit about four weeks ago there is absolutely no sign of success. I have read that it can take up to six weeks to flower after doing the "apple technique" but I'm thinking it didnt work. The One in the middle was just planted a couple days ago and is already getting new leaves. I'm probably going to need to transplant the larger one to a bigger pot or into the ground soon. My wisteria is doing much better now that I put shade cloth on the west side of it. The people at Moonvalley nursery I still swear to me that it can be a good vine for my pergola and can take the sun as long as I establish a good deep root system but it just seems like the foliage might be too delicate for our sun. If anyone has seen these take full sun or live on top of the Pergola in our area Id love to know about it. I may need to just end up replacing it with Tangerine crossvine....See MoreYour experience with "continuous not-looking-horrible" plants?
Comments (73)greenhearted, thanks for the comment, it was very considerate. I felt so bad for her and couldn't come up with a single worthwhile suggestion or think of a way to solve it. The photos I posted of her yard were after the transformation & I thought it looked good too, so good in fact I started mass planting many of my plants like she'd done in my ugly problem areas, planting all one kind in groupings like she'd done. I think the problem along with her too rich soil is the amount of rain they've had this year, everything is hugely overgrown, too tall or flopping. Barron was saying the same thing about Arkansas, too much rain. Here in central OKlahoma between those two areas of Kansas and Arkansas where I am relatively close by we are in drought and had a terribly dry summer, mine looks colorless and fried, not overgrown by any stretch. Go figure that one out. Heck even Texas got a lot of rain this summer. The worst effect my sister is dealing with since going prairie and removing the lawn is chiggers. I'd have never even thought of that happening. She said they are grossly thick and she can't get in to work without getting bit (although spraying and wearing long sleeves and pants does help but thats miserable in hot humid weather) or having them fly in her eyes. It sounded like the stuff of nightmares. On top of all that just like NHBabs was telling us, she has duscovered she is very allergic to grasses and breaks out whenever she's around them. What do you say to all that?...See More
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