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Comments (132)@sultry_jasmine_nights (Florida-9a-ish) I've never seen any kind of disease on it. It's very healthy. I only can't comment on how good the repeat is because it's in a fair amount of shade beneath a black walnut tree. Spring flush is great though. @rosecanadian thank you so much! Glad you're feeling better....See MoreRED ROSES! Color Threads 2021
Comments (118)Sorry for going so OT: Thank you all for all the advice and encouragement. You are all my friends and I am very grateful for it. The baby boy is 5 weeks old now and his name is Michael Orlando. We have tried incline, gripe water, gas drops, tummy time, bicycle leg exercises, osteopathic manipulations every day for the past 2 weeks. We just discovered that a warm towel on his tummy helps the best. Diane I am lactose intolerant and definitely thought that could be it. We switched him to a lactose free formula for a few days and no improvement so we are back on breast milk. I have accepted we will just have to outgrow it hopefully soon. I’ll definitely take any advice from you all, having a new baby and hoping you are making all the right decisions for them is hard. I have found myself doing foolish things like texting the pediatrician to show her that his booty got a bit red despite my best efforts to change him every 2 hours and using preventive diaper rash cream at every change. I am hoping he will be a great garden helper in a few years. sorry I won’t get to do an individual post for everyone who so kindly posted but I can hear him crying...See MoreShow Us Your Landscape/Gardens - A Photo Thread - June 2021
Comments (83)Gregg that dahlia is gorgeous! PM2, I believe that is Gregg's coveted "walmart no-id variety" dahlia lol, that we've seen before. Is that right, Gregg? It's really beautiful. Gregg I always have an issue with my daisies but it's oriental beetles that get mine. To the point where I almost ripped them out. Every year, tattered, tired, eaten, and dirty-looking. This year for some reason the plant was doing extremely well; big and vigorous, and it started blooming about two days ago and so far only one beetle to be seen. Hoping it stays that way. They attack my daylilies too but the damage isn't as great since the blooms are only open for the day. Geez, my plants always look so much better in person than in photos lol. Kinda like myself..... We got some thunder and intense winds but no rain! Guess I'll be out there watering again later today. Brdl that blue is stunning. Sue, I love blue as well, but as much as shades like Brdl's hydrangea catch my eye, I guess my problem is incorporating that color blue in the garden (or in the vase!). For instance last week or so I had cut a bunch of blue nigella and purple larkspur and I ended up making two separate bouquets because I felt the two of them didn't go well together. Same in the garden. I find I end up putting these blue hydrangeas either by themselves or with lots of white-blooming plants! Although I don't have anything as beautiful as brdl's intense blue! (And then there's always that "gardeners-call-purple-blue" thing going on lol.....) :) Dee...See MoreFall Color Thread 2021
Comments (115)One last one from my garden. This is a 'tree tops' view taken from the highest point of my gently sloping property, looking down with a telephoto lens. In the foreground is my Cornus florida urbiana X C. florida hybrid I mentioned on another post. In some years, it will have an incredibly delayed fall color change. Unless we have snow, ice or a very heavy freeze, in will stay reddish for all of December. It's been to about 26F so far, but we eased into that kind of cold, it didn't come suddenly. If that happens, it seems to make it more likely to just suddenly drop the leaves after turning gray. This will be a good year: almost all Japanese maples have totally dropped, and this thing is just maybe 1/2 way there. It's still had good color around the New Years in some years. Then, it will always get cold enough to knock the leaves off. In the far distance is the top of my Metasequoia 'Ogon', over 40' now from a plant that was a 30" twig in 2010. It seems that, as the Ogon gets above the canopy of those maples and dying ashes (which are actually beyond it although there's an illusion one is ahead of it) it both stays more yellow in the summer, and has better fall color. The intermediate conifer is a Cryptomeria 'Sekkan', which is also getting a little more yellow as it gets above the 'shade line' in its area, but not to the degree of the 'Ogon' and IIRC I think Embo once mentioned there is a known issue with variegated conifers losing their yellowness as they mature, especially ones in the Cypress family. (of course the 'Ogon' is also in that family...but wasn't it produced by seed irradiation though, and not just a random mutation, or that story apocryphal? Super maybe it's 'super variegated' bwahaha) The funny thing is one of my Abies firmas is also in this picture, in sense, but it is perfectly hidden behind the Sugi tree. Sorry about the picture being slightly blurry, it was taken with a really old lens from the 80s that I put on my fuji mirrorless camera with an adapter....See MoreRelated Professionals
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