Vermillionaire Plant
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Has anyone grown Vermillionaire in a container? I purchased one in a 4" pot today from the nursery and now that I've got it home, I'm wondering what size pot I should move it to. Should I plant it into a pot around the same size as the vermillion is at full growth? This plant will grow 12" wide and 28" tall and it is an annual. I also posted this in container gardening. No replies as yet. Thank you.
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Comments (24)Finally getting some mature flowers on David Verity (left) and am able to compare them to Vermillionaire (right). David is slightly longer but Vermillionaire is slightly fatter and its mouth is wider. Still these are just the start of David Verity so they might get fatter as well. I can say David is much more of a water hog than Vermillionaire but maybe after a year or two Vermillionaire will be a water hog and wilt without being constantly watered as well. :)...See MoreYour plant of the season
Comments (53)There are many of them this year but without a doubt my award goes to the beautiful autumn perennial and in my opinion one of the most spectacular and mysterious autumn plants - Aconitum carmichaelii Arendsii. It has been her third year in my garden and it only gets more stunning each year. It's almost 2 metres or well above 6 feet high. This year it's been flowering since the end of September and will continue to do so at least well into November as it has bunches of buds in every leaf axil all the way down. It flowers in succession so you sure have a nice display all autumn. And that is just one plant! Not only that it's elegant and trouble free all the other months out of flower with its deeply lobed dark green leaves and firmly upright and compact stem but it resists drought like nothing (never ever watered it, except when planting it) and is never bothered by any pests and diseases. The picture can't really capture the gracefulness and elegance this plant adds to the garden. You simply must experience it. I found the tag at the base of the plant and found out it had been really costly but looking back it's worth every single pound I gave for it....See MoreFavorite hummingbird plants part sun?
Comments (48)Hi Stephanie!! I have to thank you for always giving me such great advice here and on Instagram. It’s really helped me become comfortable in this new zone . Well , my pink abutilon still does very well and it never stops blooming so I never cut it back 🫣. The hummers live nearby and I feel like they love it so I won’t . I grow a lot of clematis here , and for me , when they are babies they do sometimes protest and die back . But the roots keep growing and they will return and show off eventually! I have a few that bloom amazingly in that sun position .. Margaret hunt , bonanza , and Emilia plater . My blush noisette rose is in just about all shade next to the house . It has grown and blooms for most of the summer , and very lush in my opinion given the shade . I bet she’d love more sun like you have ! I also have James Galway in that area but he’s 3 years old this year and was moved last year so I’m not sure yet how he will do . I don’t want to remove him tho ( mainly bc I have no place to put him and I’m not sure he’s easy to find so I want to keep him for safekeeping even if he’s not happy) Not in this exact bed but on the other side of the fence you see I had a potted mandevilla and it was just fine happily blooming in those conditions. Same with a blue plumbago .. it sure is a learning curve and so interesting to me that what does well for me may not for you and vice versa ! My mystic spires salvia ( can’t get enough of it ! ) takes shade well too ! How about that yesterday today and tomorrow plant ? Mine was fine until I really neglected the watering 😩.. well I’m probably not that much help but that’s what I have .. I had planted a lot of other plants in that area but our neighbors decided to set up a turtle breeding tank system and would absolutely flood our yard and that area when they cleaned their tanks . The area dosnt drain well enough for heavy water so a whole batch of Annie’s annuals order drowned . It’s too bad bc I had high hopes for them. About abutilon .. do you know if they heavy prune the ones at descano ? I wonder if I should anyway but I hate to rob the hummers ....See MoreAny way(s) to save an established Vermillionaire (Cuphea hybrid)?
Comments (3)I should think the cold cellar would work. I have two of these plants, both grown in containers. One is about 4 years old, the other close to 3. They remain outside year round. I am pretty sure I bought the second after the first winter with the first. I have year round hummingbirds and they made such a fuss about this plant and it was so dad-gummed colorful, I wanted its presence in my garden! I was afraid the first never made it through the winter - it was very late to come back to life. But it did!! So because I was impatient, I now have two :-) All of this is to say that Vermillionaire may be somewhat more cold tolerant than expected. Obviously, I am not in a zone 6 climate, but the plants easily survived winter temps down into the 30's and perhaps even a dip into the 20's for a short period of time. I bring nothing inside for the winter (other than my outdoor summering houseplants) because I have nowhere to store - no shed, no garage, no basement. I am continually surprised at what non-hardy plants (but not true annuals) manage to survive unattended outside all winter....and a great many in containers!...See MoreGarden Mist
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rouge21_gw (CDN Z5b/6a)
last yearlast modified: last yearBe aware that Cupheas are a preferred food of Japanese beetles.
@rusty_blackhaw is correct. Last season our Cuphea was ravaged by JB. I almost threw it out as it lost so much of the foliage. But Amazing it rebounded once the beetle season had passed and did superbly.
This year there have been less beetles although there still are some.
See it smack dab in the middle of the photo below? :(
Here is the same plant in a pot (as of today) (I purchased it in a 4" pot back in May).
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