July Flowers After Some Rain
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The flower colors are much improved after Thursday afternoon's rain. We got just over 1.5 inches of rainfall. There's a 50 percent chance for rain today and tomorrow. I hope some materializes!
Promises Kept is finally pink again. It had looked near white for weeks.
Breathing In Snowflakes
Browns Ferry Cream Supreme
Silver Sword
Irresistible You
Pretty Desirable
Linda Beck
Sun Temple Spirit
Sugar Magnolia
Seedling Integrated Logistics X Sugar Magnolia 2 - I like how tall this one is in its second bloom year - 34 inches. It has decent bud count considering the lack of rain (13-14 buds on 4 scapes). All four sibs in this cross are bitones.
The seedling above with Mystic Maize
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Lamb's Ear Flower's Flattened Out After Rain!!!
Comments (2)That is pretty typical of most Lamb's Ear. The one species I have not had problems with is 'Fuzzy Wuzzy'. I had to buy it just for the name's sake. My garden has seen some major downpours this Spring, none of which have caused the flowers to flop. At this point, go ahead and cut the flower stocks off. In the future you might consider staking them or you can forgo the flowers all together by planting 'Silver Carpet', a variety that does not flower. Heather...See Morerain in JULY keeps things blooming......... :)
Comments (8)Here's FWB in my garden yesterday: As you can see, I'm not getting the bold color either. I think the heat is to blame. Love your echinacea. I have grown white rain lilies for years here. The pinks have not done as well, but I'm hoping I might see some this year. And, I have candy lilies, too! I find they are short lived perennials (for me) but reseed quite well. I now find them quite a ways from where the originals were. I like them also. I once had a purple one that I bought on a trip, but alas, I haven't seen it in any of the offspring so far. We could use some of your rain to cool things off a bit here, lol. Enjoyed your pictures!...See Moresome thoughts after a recent rain storm
Comments (14)Whatever you do, don't waste time with coffee, weak or otherwise. If you wish to lower the pH of your water, add white vinegar until the pH of the water drops between 5.2 - 5.8 - then record how much vinegar was required, and simply add that volume to your gallon/s each time you water. Josh...See MoreJuly 2018 Week 5: Singin' in the Rain
Comments (39)farmgardener, Yay! Congrats on the okra. I am glad it is producing. Desperate times, like this year, sometimes all for desperate measures. It sure has been a weird year. Jacob, Your garden looks great as always and it is so good to hear everything has recovered so well from the hail. The drought news from your area is not good, but in the next seven days I expect you'll get some drought relief, and so will we. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for all of us. We're in Severe Drought here now with increasing fire activity that is keeping me away from home and away from my garden---poor, pitiful, heat-roasted and drought-dehydrated mess that it is. I'm just hoping rain falls soon before we can advance to Extreme Drought. At this point, though, in our area we only want rain if it is going to bring hard downpours of rain---those half-hearted thunderstorms we keep getting that are mostly dry storms with lots of lightning (which starts fires) and very little rain just make things worse at this point since the lightning striking in dry fields can start fires so easily. Here's the 7-day Qualitative Precipitation Forecast, offering us a glimmer of hope. Now, y'all, don't take this thing too seriously because it updates multiple times daily and can be all over the place with regards to amounts. Still, as we watch it evolve over the next few days, we should have some clue about how much rain to expect. 7-day QPF Larry, I loved Little Lucy and was so unhappy when the seed company that carried it dropped it from production. It was so pretty and so productive. Rebecca, Hmmm. Baby Bubba usually produces a lot. Know what I'd do? I'd hit that sucker with Bloom Booster type fertilizer to push it into flowering. I don't know why it is being lazy this year. It isn't like we are cool and cloudy, so it ought to be happy with the weather. I am so happy that Seeds of India worked out well for your co-worker. Please tell her how thrilled I am to hear that their garden is doing so well. I was only able to work in the garden yesterday for a little while. I deadheaded flowers, dodging all the bees who take it personally when I start snipping off blooms. I did a little weeding, but there's not many weeds at this point since I've worked so hard to mulch heavily and remove each weed when first noticed. I have one path that gets a bit weedy because I never have gotten it mulched. Mulching that path is on my To Do list but I never seem to get around to getting it done. I harvested okra. I talked to the tree frog who was sitting on top of my sun umbrella. I scared the deer to death by walking out of my garden while they were trying to sneak into the driveway to steal the doves' cracked corn. We had four fire calls yesterday. I didn't go on the first two as they were relatively small and minor, but the third was a big one and we were out there for 7 hours in horrific heat. The thermometer on our fire dept. vehicle showed 121 degrees at one point, and that was because we were being heated up by residual heat from the adjacent fire, which was just a 100' or so from us at that point (but not moving towards us). It was so hot out there, and so dry. When we finally made it home, we rushed off to town to grab a quick hamburger. Wqe'f fed the firefighters cold cut sandwiches and chips, but we still were starving when the fire was extinguished anyhow. On our way back from town, wolfing down our hamburgers as we traveled down the highway, I saw a familiar orange glow in the night sky and told Tim that our fire had rekindled. He didn't want to believe it and thought it was somebody else's fire---maybe across the river. (This is what I call magical thinking....wanting something to be true so you just believe it is......). We went to investigate and, of course, it was our fire. So, we sounded the alarm and then spent the next two hours back out there again. Having a wildfire rekindle is not unusual because when hundreds of acres burn, there's inevitably smoldering trees and logs and such that will flare back up----there's not enough water in this county to soak down hundreds of acres, so you just do the best you can with what you've got. Now, as I am typing this on Saturday morning, Tim is back there on a very small rekindle. It probably is going to be a rough day here again today since it started out with a fire call around 7 a.m. So, I guess we are having the August I expected and dreaded----a drought-decimated garden full of grasshoppers, and fires daily, and with the fires seeming to increase in number and severity daily. I'm hoping we'll start getting rain soon and that conditions will improve. Even in 2011 when it was hotter, drier and we were much deeper in drought than we are now, we got our first hint of drought relief on August 11th, so that gives me hope for this coming week---that maybe we'll be getting some real drought relief within the next 7 to 10 days. The forecast looks kinda good right now, but then you really cannot trust a forecast 7 days out, so we'll see. I hope you all have a good day today. Dawn...See More
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last yearMaryl - I have a red seedling that is sunfast up to 98 degrees, but Big 8 inch is not it. The sunfast one is this one, an evergreen late bloomer:
I haven't seen Holly Dancer this season. If I knew where it was, I would send it to you. I suspect the grubs ate its roots again. With the lack of rain I have dozens of daylilies that have not scaped this year, or that have scaped and dropped all buds in the heat. We've gotten a lot rain in the last five days, so maybe they will scape very late this year.
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