Rant: Where have all the flower seeds gone?
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Comments (3)They still grow along the Sunnhill Restoration levee. Granted, that's not a roadside, but it's still there. Mine.. or at least my Maypop (the native) got burned by that last bad frost a couple weeks ago and is just now coming back from root. So the ones in the wild might be similarly recouping....See MoreWhere Have All The Flowers Gone?
Comments (1)Its still there. about midway down the page, if I'm seeing the right one. With so many new unanswered threads started its pushing the active one to the bottom or to the second page. Part of the reason I'm responding to them all right now....See MoreWhere have all the (female) flowers gone?
Comments (11)Oh, I think they are very unhappy plants. I have 6 zucchini plants. 4 of them are living in a small kids pool of MG potting mix. Sadly the mix settled since I planted them, so I think they don't have as much soil as they would like. The other 2 are in a larger kiddie pool I bought for my son's pumpkins. I didn't think the pumpkins would live since I was transplanting them, so I filled the pool 1/3 full of dry leaves and the rest of the way with MG garden soil to avoid wasting $ on plants that wouldn't survive. I threw the 2 zucchini plants I had left to transplant into one side of the pool. After I read you guys say that garden soil isn't meant to be planted in without mixing with regular soil I threw some more soil from the yard into the pool and mixed it in the top few inches. The weird thing is that while I wound up with 6 large zucchini plants, the ones in the large pool (leaves and garden soil) are way healthier looking than the ones in the small pool. Apparently more crappy soil is better than less better soil. The cucumbers are actually very happy. I've got them growing in a city pickers box and they seem to be loving the constant supply of water. I originally had 6 cucumbers (3 of straight eight on one side, 3 pickle barrel hybrid on the other) planted in the box and asked you guys what to do about thinning. I built a little trellis in the box and cut out the weakest looking one, which seems to have been a mistake. The two on the side I cut are producing a TON of male and female flowers and the three plants on the other side are only producing male flowers. Oh, and I went an checked out the pumpkin flowers this morning. There were 6 flowers and they were all male....See MoreWhere Have All the Flowers Gone?
Comments (19)Maryl - Both Razor Sharp and All of My Love to You have watermarks and some teeth, but I don't think they look alike. Razor Sharp is a much larger sized flower. All of My Love to You is much darker in petal color. But here's a bonus for you. All of My Love to You will survive in a pot during hard winters. Razor Sharp will not. I've never noticed whether All of My Love to you fades much by evening. To tell the truth, it's not one I pay a lot of attention to (except using its pollen). Debra...See Morerosaprimula
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