Alyssum - Sweet explosive growth Zone 9
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Comments (5)You might have been better off by incorporating your top dressings into the entire planting area months before planting. By just doing the top dressings, it could take some years for the soil to improve. Try hoeing some of your amendments into the upper soil, taking care to not disturb roots. The only way to accurately gauge watering is to probe a few inches into the soil to see how well it is taking up moisture. Blackberries don't care if they get their trunks wet; water the ground right up to the canes....See MoreHow big are these Austins in Zone 9 HOT?
Comments (8)I've only grown Charlotte and Tamora: Tamora was vigorous even tho it was an ownroot and generally I've found the Austins do better grafted than ownroot, at least in my micro-climate which is cooler than typical southern California conditions as I live on the easternmost edge of the coastal zone. Tamora rusted in my garden, just as it did in Jeri's. Charlotte grew tall and slender -- I've heard it's easily 6ft+ in southern California. I've had great success with Molineux which is 6-7ft in my yard, planted in a warm sunny sheltered position. Golden Celebration was easily 8 feet across here, but failed after I severely pruned it. Redoute (pink sport of Mary Rose) was 8-9ft+ here, extremely floriferous & very fragrant, but also hated severe pruning. My 25 yr old Leanders are enormous shrub-climbers: 8-13 ft. We prune them judiciously. Jude the Obscure was stunted the 5 years it languished here and only produced a few flowers every spring -- huge, exquiste, honey-scented blooms, which is why I held onto the rose 5 years --- it probably needs more heat and would do better inland. If an English rose likes your climate, expect it to be WAY BIGGER than it's claimed on the Austin website. I saw a mature Lord Oberon on the grounds of what had been the first nursery to sell English roses in Los Angeles, and it was 12-14 ft tall....See MoreSprouted in Zones 7-9?
Comments (26)I checked my sprouts this morning while counting my containers. I have 53 varieties that have sprouted - a lot of people contributed to these!! They are: Bupleurum Green Gold 5 varieties of Lupines Delphinium Cherry Blossom Lobelia Crystal Palace Lobelia Great Blue Queen Ann's Lace Marsh Mallow Blue Larkspur Larkspur 7 Dwarfs Pink Silene New England Aster Chives Angelica Giga Ice Plants Lavender Sancho Panza Bells of Ireland Variegated KMOTGG Lemon Mint Potentilla Melton Fire Shasta Daisy Becky Wild Daisy Excelsior Foxglove Alyssum Gold Dust Dame's Rocket Verbena Boanrensis on a stick Campanula Canterbury Bells Campanula Peach Leaved Painted Daisies Nepeta Nervosa Blue Moon Agastache Golden Jubilee Agastache Rupestris Agastache Korean Mint Agastache Pink Pop Maltese Cross Maltese Cross Dusty Salmon Gaillardia Oranges & Lemons Gaillardia Razzle Dazzle Gaillardia Tokajer Gaillardia Summer's Kiss Gaillardia Arizona Sun Gaillardia Red Plume Gaillardia Double Mixed Gaillardia Burgundy Yellow Ratibida Rudbeckia Rustic Dwarf Rudbeckia Cherokee Sunset Rudbeckia Green Wizard Rudbeckia Prairie Sun Rudbeckia Becky Mix Becky ramazz Newport News, VA...See MoreA question for you veteran citrus growers in zones 8 and 9.
Comments (13)Ditto, here. All my citrus are beginning to flush early as well. I agree with bamboo, since you're already seeing flush, and there is not way to "shock it back", with the exception of a freeze, I would go ahead and fertilize. If you know you're going to have a freeze, haul out the mini-Christmas tree lights and a freeze protection blanket to protect them, especially anything that is in blossom. That's about all you can do. We're all bemoaning this. Not just my citrus! My Desert Delight nectarine tree is in FULL blossom. It's one of my earliest of my peach/nectarine/plum trees, but this is really about a month early. And, everything is right on it's heels. I will not be getting in a 3rd dormant spray this year, no way. Patty S....See Moresocks
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