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Golden Crane - average size 3-5 ft. tall and wide. How tall?? or????

3 years ago

last modified: 3 years ago

Plants grow as large as they grow! Some less and some more. My Golden Crane has a mind of its own and I love it! Don't cut it back and waiting to see how big it can grow. The scent is mild sweet and waifs up into the kitchen and bedrooms. It has been in bloom for almost two months and is more beautiful every day. The red tape on the rebar in some of the shots is 8 feet at the top. No fertilizer, no mulch - just near the heat exchanger and hose outlet. This one get sun all afternoon. Hydrangeas growing in the PNW are happy campers!

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NHBabs z4b-5a NH

3 years ago

Thanks for posting! I love seeing your plants, even though most can’t grow well here. That one is stunning.

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luis_pr
3 years ago
last modified: 3 years ago
Oh, wow. I am going to have to wait for the "Little Golden Crane" version. At that height, I would not be able to "see" the blooms up close from below. Hee, hee, hee! But.... at least I would be able to smell them and I like that it has been blooming for two months and the blooms loook "new". I could not see any blooms that might look like 'old blooms'... meaning blooms that may be changing colors like adding some greens for example. What is the next color change phase of the GC blooms going to be? Turn green, pink, etc? "Disintegrate" like some of my other lacecap blooms? Good plant location so you can smell it when going up and down the stairs.
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mzdee
3 years ago

Oh, that is magnificent!
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ken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
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At that height, I would not be able to "see" the blooms up close from below.

==>> thats why the siting is just perfect ... was it some evil plan on your part ... or just blind luck... like most of my brilliant decisions... lol ...

ken
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luis_pr
3 years ago
last modified: 3 years ago
She probably lives on the second floor and gets to see/enjoy the blooms all the time. Ha!
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ophoenix
Original Author
3 years ago
The porch is at the top of the stairs and we can also see it out of the window in the kitchen. We are up close as we walk down the stairs to the garden.

Ken,

Planned? HA! The plant was a tiny baby and got decapitated by the hose. Just a stub was left in the ground and I was so bummed that I left it to live or die as it wanted! lol It did grow from the little stub and as it grew, side branches, almost like waterspouts came bursting out from the lowest branches. They grew taller and taller and I thought that was pretty neat! lol So I left them to see just how tall they could get. Many of my garden buddies suggested cutting them, but obviously, I did not. LOL As the branches covered the ugly lattice I appreciated their lust for life! haha Luis, the flowers don't change much like most of the other hydrangeas and will eventually just fall off. I was at a meeting where Dan Hinkley was the speaker and I asked him if he would like to see how his introduction was doing. I sent pictures and he wrote back 'WOW!' Wait till I send him pics of one of his asperas mountain hydrangeas that is approaching 18 feet at least! And another aspera Plum Passion that is about to top off at 8 feet and 8 - 10 feet wide. I will get some pics when they are blooming.
Embothrium
3 years ago
last modified: 3 years ago
What they didn't tell you as that they set buckets of live fish in front of their 'Crane'.
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ophoenix
Original Author
3 years ago
Thanks babs, the garden is a labor of love. I am sure that can be said for you and many of the folks here. One of the saddest gardens I have ever visited was at my husband's cousin's very ritzy house full of beautiful plants. But when I commented on a huge patch of blue poppies and a beautiful hydrangea she just waved her hand in disinterest and said 'I don't know one from the other - the gardeners do all the buying and planting.' I came home and thanked the garden spirits for my precious trees, shrubs, plants and even the weeds.

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