Anyone has Wild Blue Yonder?
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Comments (1)Hello Patrick, I also love 'Wild Blue Yonder'...she reminds me a violet zinnia...and I absolutely adore anything ruffled! Here's my experiences with my two WBYs: I live in fairly humid central Illinois, and I've found WBY must be sprayed in order to keep the BS to a minimum; otherwise it will defoliate. I use Bayer Advanced, so my spray program is every 2 weeks. My WBYs are own-root 2-year old plants. Since our winters are brutual, they start out every spring being pruned back to the ground, but regrow quickly to a rather tall, angular bush of about 3' x 2'...rather airy-looking. Rebloom has been OK but not spectacular...maybe it's because they are both young....but the blooms are well worth the wait in-between flushes. I feed RoseTone exclusively, and all my roses thrive on this organic mix. As far as vase life, I haven't cut any to bring inside...but they do last on the bush. So...yes, do definitely add this to your collection of purples and violets...she's a beauty. -terry...See MoreGrowing wild blue marsh Iris.
Comments (15)The funniest thing happened at the potting bench today. As I was doing things like getting these baby Oregon Irises into pots to grow on, I found a couple more starts..but not in the original pot I've been saving all this time. Apparently I either dropped a few of these seeds nearby, or maybe another years seeds ( normally saved in the same location ) got in the 'to be used soil' mix ( my soil mixes are in 33 gal garbage cans), or ? No idea what happened or what vintage the newly found starts are, but they are smaller and just germinated in the last day or so. The original ones I told you about are now spread out into little pots, and the interesting thing is how long the roots are. They were all about 6 inches long, with the shoots of the plants varying from maybe 1/2 " to 6 ". Bright white, strong, and looking like they want to be in a damp environment. Interesting since the mother plant is in well drained, moist but sometimes dry soil. And each and everyone of the new babies is holding on strongly to it's seed. Shoot, seed, root.. like they each are holding a little purse. :) The seeds never budged as I split the plants apart and fussed with things....See MoreHas Anyone Tried Poseidon?
Comments (53)I know this post was written years ago, but I just saw this and had to chime in. I am not an expert gardener and just started growing roses a few years ago. I live in zone 7a (on Long Island). Long Island is known for brutally cold winters with blizzard conditions and disgusting, hot, humid, and rainy summers. I love the color purple, especially lavender and 2 summers ago It seemed Poseidon was sold out everywhere. I went crazy looking for this rose. I finally found it being sold as a bare root online at he White Flower Farm online. I bought it and it was expensive, but I wasn't sorry! It is my most prolific grower and has now ballooned up to at least 7+ foot tall by about 5 1/2 feet across and handles my frigid cold winters like a champ. It blooms prolifically and there seems to never be a time when it is not in bloom. The only thing I hate about it is the blooms don't last long, when it gets really hot some of the blooms fry and if it rains a lot the blooms get a little yucky and ball up a little. However, it is constantly putting out more blooms so that makes up for it. The color is exquisite and I adore it!! It is the only rose bush in my garden that out of 25+ roses, likes my climate and keeps growing until the end of October....See MoreEbb Tide, Wild Blue Yonder, or Outta the Blue?
Comments (7)I also live in a hot dry climate. Ebb Tide was very beautiful in the spring but a disaster for the next six months with scant bloom and fried petals. I no longer have it. Wild Blue Yonder was in afternoon shade and the flowers were pretty but not very prolific in the heat and the bush turned out to be thick-caned, coarse-leaved and gangly. I also no longer have it. In its place I have the Austin, Sister Elizabeth, which is lovely, a lavender pink, but which I had to move from its full-sun site to this shadier one. I've heard that Outta the Blue is a better rose than Wild Blue Yonder but have no experience with it. Purple roses are notoriously difficult in the heat and sun. I had Burgundy Iceberg next to Julia Child and that was and is the best rose for me in the sun, and one that blooms very prolifically for me, all throughout the year. I say had because I gave away Julia Child, but only because it didn't really fit my color scheme. I'm mostly interested in old roses but Burgundy Iceberg is here to stay. Ingrid...See MoreMischievous Magpie (CO 5b)
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