Hardy mums for cold climates-
Marie Tulin
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Anyone in cold/wet climates growing Delosperma Hardy Ice Plant?
Comments (5)I use ordinary commercial potting soil, - peat/pearlite/this and that - and if ice plant gets started in my containers, it can turn into a weed, choking out what ever else I'm trying to grow. busy pulling it out by the handful these days after it overwintered in the greenhouse. pretty stuff, in other environments. Here is a link that might be useful: like to what I've got...See MoreGood reference on rose hardiness for cold climate growers
Comments (2)What is brilliant about both of these pubs is that they define hardiness with specifics. David has a number of other, scientific rose pubs for anyone interested in where rose science is today. The Rosa x hybrida paper in the google scholar search below is one of the finest review papers available at present. Here is a link that might be useful: Google: scholar: Zlesak and Roses...See More'Hardy' Mums
Comments (13)I am in zone6a and I have had good luck with Mums coming back. I haven't a lot..three altogether up until last year, but those three have been coming back for at least 7 years. One was up against the house facing west and I dug it out and potted it up in the spring and it is still in a pot. The other was in a part shade corner that seems partly exposed. I think the third is Sheffield Pink and it is in too much shade and entirely exposed to the windiest part of the yard and comes back every year, even a few years with cold temps and very little snow cover. Last year, I purchased two mums and two asters at a local nursery to use in my containers. I enjoyed them all last fall and just left them in their 20" containers all winter. I was very surprised to see both asters come back and one of the mums. I moved the asters to perennial beds in late spring I guess and they seem to have formed buds, so I am waiting to see how they do when they bloom. The mum that survived was in a window box on the ground and I left it there all summer. It hasn't grown any larger than it was last year but there are buds on it. I really should plant that one in the ground this fall. Soon actually. I also bought a 3 pack of mums from Bluestone in the spring and they are in the ground after hanging around too long. [g] They haven't grown much but at least they have been in the ground for awhile but I just realized they are in my windiest location. So now I am not sure whether to try moving them now or wait for spring. I might try to buy more in the spring from Bluestone. I don't usually buy three of the same kind either. They have combos but they haven't appealed to me. They do have a nice selection of mums that are different than what you usually see locally. Really, I do understand the point Donna was making about 'impulse buying', but really I prefer to wait until something is in bloom to choose it any way. I don't think of that as impulse buying though. I just don't think it works out well every time, to choose a plant from a photo in a catalog, or a book. The colors in photos are just not dependable. Therefore, I have purchased every mum, except this past order from Bluestone, in the fall. What is worse, I usually have used them in containers all fall and then either left them in containers all winter or planted them in the ground. So it is surprising that they have come back....See MoreHardy pure Japanese plums for cold climates
Comments (11)I pay extremely close attention to these trees. Enough to notice the difference between Japanese and hybrid plum buds leafs and fruit from its visual features and fruit texture The ptitsen bloomed at the exact same time as this plum did maybe a few days after but very similar bloom time hence the heavy loads of fruit the two produced as they are only 4ft away from each other. I assume it's a ptitsen 9 as it came from bylands and summer land budwood orchard near by sells ptitsen 9 I'm certain bylands buys bud wood from them i do agree with you Konrad they look very similar to the ptitsen 10....See MoreMarie Tulin
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