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What are some of the most unusual bonsais you've grown
Comments (21)It's about 3-4 years old in the picture and had been chopped twice to induce the taper. Just about anything that's perennial and looks like it will make a trunk, I look at with the 'bonsai eye'. All my display containers with flowery stuff in them, as well as all the garden plantings .... even houseplants benefit immensely from the pinching/pruning techniques that thicken the plant or let air and light into the interior. The attention to form and the guidelines we use in building our trees readily apply to other plantings and make a big difference in their appearance. Most people realize even nonbonsai plantings are special in appearance because they don't appear to have the same growth habits that they are used to seeing in their own plants that have received little/no attention, and usually don't realize that there might have been a considerable amount of consideration given to improving the appearance. Sorry - I got off track. ;o) I was clearing out the containers ion the garden one year and there was a snap that had grown kind of thick and woody. Instead of the compost pile, it went in a pot & I nursed it through the winter & started to build on it in the second year. I give away a lot of plants like the one in the pic after figuring them out, but I've had that one for about 7 years or so. I should have repotted it last year, but I didn't, so it wend downhill over the winter. I repotted it a few weeks ago, and it's just warming up here - showing new growth. I had to prune it back quite a bit & I'll have to rebuild it, but I'll see how it responds to the repot. I can't imagine they would be all that long-lived. I've had several that were 5 years old when I gave them away, but this is the oldest I've had yet. It's just your every day snap that you get 6 to a cell pack at the greenhouse - nothing to stop you from building one. ;o) I have some volunteers in a permanent planter that has several volunteers in it, so I'll probably be digging one or two up in Aug. ..... keeps me off the streets and out of the bars. ;o) Al...See MoreWhat's the best green bean you've grown?
Comments (55)After reading the comments about brown bunch beans last year I decided to try them and ordered from midnight trader on ebay. After 40 years of gardening and trying a multitude of green bean varieties my quest is finally over these are the best tasting beans I have ever grown. These beans are also virtually stringless when picked young and tender and also can well but when eaten fresh are in a league of their own. From the seed I saved from last years crop I was able to plant a full crop this year and Brown Bunch Beans will be a staple in my garden for years to come. Thanks to all of you who commented on this site that put me on to these beans I would have never have tried if not for you....See More4 perennials you've never grown but would like to try
Comments (20)I would like to try Hollyhock, but it seems to have so many disease problems. I would love to try many plants but I just cannot tolerate floppiness. So I am hesitant to add Cosmos and Foxgloves to the garden as much as I love them. Cameron, here in Winston I am growing five Dahlias this year. I have a pink-orange daisy type that I bought at a nursery two years ago that overwintered in its pot the first year. It overwintered in the ground last year. I also have Ellen Houston which I bought at Lowe's last summer that overwintered in the ground; it was labeled as perennial. Interestingly, this year they were selling it as an annual, zone 9 I think! I added Ginger Willo, Crazy Legs, and Crossfield Ebony this year. I don't do anything too special to them (if they look really sad but don't need water I may mist the leaves) and they flower from June until frost. Well, I should say that I cover up the emerging spouts at night when they first pop out of the ground because slugs like them and I don't cut down the stocks after freezing to protect the tubers from water. I don't do any of the special preening and pruning because I am not trying to grow show flowers. You should give them a try!...See MoreLookin for heirloom Polish paste tomato
Comments (1)Baker Creek carries them. They are a good one. Well it's Polish Linguisa. I have grown that particular one before and it was very good and matches your description....See Moredeanna in ME Barely zone 6a, more like 5b
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