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Comments (10)Schoolhouse ~ Traditionally a cottage garden was one that surrounded a cottage. If we ever move from here, we still want a cottage style house. We live in a small 50's cottage and living in s.e. FL, I can't grow traditional cottage garden flowers, so I have natives, tropicals, herbs, roses, orchids, vines, an avocado tree. We did have a ruby red grapefruit, until the county went on a mad dash to take everyone's citrus trees when that citrus canker scare was on. Soon after they took ours, they stopped their mayhem. Now people can plant citrus again. Grrr. I hope you one day have your cottage dream come true. Until then, enjoy those lovely gardens you have created. Ianna ~ these days most people do not live in cottages. A cottage style garden can be grown anywhere. Lavender lass ~ *The informal style and happy mixture of flowers is cheerful and easy to adapt to almost any surrounding.* I agree. LuckyGal ~ We just found sections of picket fencing that I plan on using. :-) I could see where I might not want these if I had had to paint them as a kid. Do look for roses that will grow up there in your cold climate, I know there are some. I could never live with formal style gardens either, just not my personality. Below is a link for Canadian old heirloom roses. Happy Cottage Gardening ~ wherever you live. FlowerLady Here is a link that might be useful: Heirloom Roses for Canada...See MoreStarting to call it quits for the season
Comments (5)I'm a propagater/experimenter, too. In fact, I always check out the clearance rack this time of year with the intention of buying something just to take cuttings, or for their seed. Last year I bought a huge, over grown Alabama Sunset coleus for a $1.00 at Lowes. Actually it was more of a spindly, bush. I took over a dozen cuttings and rooted them over the winter. The following spring I planted 6 and gave the rest away. Right now, I'm checking out everything in my garden in terms of propagation. It's been a very hard summer around here, and its taken its toll, but I've got my rooting hormone, clippers, and a prepared bed awaiting some cuttings. Heather, the way I look at it is that you have nothing to lose, and everything to gain when you take cuttings to propagate. Plus, it's fun! :-) Good luck! Marilyn...See MoreA Black Thumb with Brown Spots on Zinnias
Comments (9)Excess moisture from any source promotes leaf diseases on zinnia and many other plants. Management is to keep leaves as dry as possible. eg: space plants to allow for good air circulation; water at ground level; if watering overhead, allow adequate time for leaves to dry before night fall. Might take a look at this from Penn State http://extension.psu.edu/pests/plant-diseases/all-fact-sheets/zinnia-diseases Here is a link that might be useful: zinnia diseases This post was edited by jean001a on Sat, May 31, 14 at 22:22...See MoreThe Beast from the East: what happened
Comments (6)Things look OK in my garden,too. The old leaves on some of the roses that never dropped previously were zapped, which isn't bad. Two small, not-very- healthy-to-start-with- looking ceanothus repens look pretty dead. Also, I had sowed dwarf clover,the seedlings had begun to come up, and I think I lost all of that. I've done some pruning, but am concerned that my health issues will get in the way of the early spring garden jobs, so instead of finishing that, I started fertilizing. Of course now today I see the weather sites are talking about the possibility of a return of intense cold around March 20th ...gosh, I sure hope not! but since I don't know what I'll be doing later this spring, I figure I'll just risk it. I may well not be able to do much for my plants later on in the year, so at least I'd like them to get some fertilizer now that regular rain is predicted.In any case the previous cold doesn't seem to have caused much damage to the roses,so hopefully, even if it does get cold again, it won't be as bad as this one we've just had......See More
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