Does anyone have any experience with Fabric Plant Pots
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Nick (9b) Modesto Area
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Comments (51)I do not always have access to pumice so I mix it up with whatever grit I have hanging around. Expanded shale. , washed 1/4 Decomposed granite , course red lava sand, perlite. I am not anal retentive. I am more of the "what's in the frig" kind of gardener. I do not know if you are in Florida, California or Texas. The quantities will be important to your location and how humid you are. I know Floridians who grow in 100% grit, and inland Californians who use more humous in the mix. Its a mixed bag here in Texas as U sit under the remnant of Hurricane Harvey who might be leaving 20" on me. I have also gone all summer often without summer moisture. Not this year....See MoreFabric pots? Anyone have experience with 'em?
Comments (0)Due to my frantic busy-ness to finish my final work for my computer graphics course AND then my getting a horrible virus complete with a high fever and very sore throat, I was not able to water my garden as often as I wanted to for the past month. Heck, I barely SAW my garden most days, just coming home and running for the computer to get more work done. And I'm just beginning to recover from that nasty virus. With the high temps we had, the denizens of my coir-lined elevated Garden Kitten wire basket became crispy critters. Bye bye purple petunias and pink calibrachoas, you will be missed. Sunken into my garden is a pot left by the 99 cent store junkie Chinese neighbors (they moved out and a very nice Chinese couple moved in), planted with Ruby Mantle sedum and Angelina, both succulents and therefore drought-resistant. THEY are trying to sneak out of their pot and become ground cover, which I do not want. The elevated spot in the Garden Kitten basket would therefore be ideal. But their pot is too big for the wire basket. Therefore, I was thinking of trying one of those new fabric pots, some of which are in very pretty colors, because hopefully it would be flexible and could be snugged under the wire Kitten face. Does anyone have any experience with these fabric pots? Could I leave the succulents outside for the winter as I did in their ceramic pot? Thanks for any info!...See MoreDoes anyone have any experience with a 'Freeman Hybrid' magnolia?
Comments (30)Sorry, he could have been, but it was so long ago I did this research I can't remember now. The part about being a community college professor is all I remember. I did find my email from Andrew Bunting in 2010: The Sequoia sempervirens we have on campus which does sometimes parade under the name of "Swarthmore Hardy" is from a plant we got from the Coker Arboretum in 1994 (i.e., the North Carolina/Venable tree, also marketed by Camellia Forest as 'Chapel Hill'.). We don't having any other old plants on campus. We do have a plant of Sequoia sempervirens that is about 30' feet tall that we got from the Barnes Arboretum in 1980. So I guess he means the larger S.s. on the Swarthmore campus, is the North Carolina/Coker/Venable tree. I can't say for sure because in spite a couple visits to the campus, I never noticed either one! As I said though, having owned clones of both for a few years now, they sure do look identical, so it corroborates Bunting's account. Now would be the time for someone to propagate the Barnes/U Washington clone! Sadly it isn't always easy. In 2016 I sent Cam Forest S.s. cuttings I collected at some elevation in the coast ranges after driving around for a day looking for one I thought would be in a 'cold spot'. It was a frost hollow at 1400'. Alas, the attempt to root them failed....See MoreDoes anyone have any experience with Dianthus "Starburst"?
Comments (1)Starburst has performed well for me. It lived in a pot for the first year or two, and then it was transplanted to the ground about 3 years ago. It is supposed to be hardy down to -40 degrees Fahrenheit according to the tag. It gets a great flush of bloom in the spring but has never repeated very well aside from a scattering of flowers in the fall. However until this past fall it was in semi-shade from a tree which was removed in Oct., so I'm hoping for better repeat this year. As a ground cover, it makes a lovely small patch of bluish-green. I love the fragrance as well. Subtle and clove-like. Reminds me of Necco wafers. I don't have any good photos, but here is one during its spring flush....See MoreKris
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