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Galeux D'Eysines squash
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Early Crookneck squash
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Dahlias
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Beautiful dahlias and produce, @TrueNorthTreasures !
One snapdragon plant is still have in bloom. One little rose bush has an open mid-size rose. Another tiny rose bush has a rosebud. Leaves are mostly intact but I trimmed some canes just to reduce the plant's energy spent on supporting too many canes. Chrysanthemums are sure to open soon.
One dusty miller plant got big so I gave it a trim. Gave the rosemary plant a couple of cuts and have the stems in a glass of water now. Leaving the lavender plant to continue to grow a little more-I have high hopes of lots of buds next year in bloom.
Many floral annuals that Dad planted seem to still be in bloom. That's a surprise.
Thank you for the kind words, Ciel! I'll bet your roses are beautiful. I would love to have roses or peonies. :) Our rosemary is still doing okay outside, but soon I'll have to share it with someone or repot it to bring it inside for the winter. I didn't realize Chrysanthemums bloomed so late in the season!
Former RBG director is now with the Naples Botanical Garden in Florida. Something to read while we get through winter in Canada: https://www.guelphmercury.com/living...ce-of-silence/
sniff...sniff....:bawling:
In loving memory of my beautiful ( and very young ) potted tree sized Mandavilla plant. I was so excited to get you on sale for $11.00 at the end of the summer ( 2017 ) and you bloomed like no one was watching well into October when we brought both you and your relative red flower Mandavilla in for the winter.
A perfect spot in the corner on a large table under a florescent light where the cats could NOT reach you.
Your blooms were many and large and continued to open....... pink flowers ( even though the card attached to you claimed they would be white ), but then.......all at once we noticed you dropping leaves and looking unwell, and then something was all along your vines.
DH said it was aphids? Yuck, I immediately bought something to fight them off but you succumbed.
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Oh no walker! That's too bad, I know you loved that plant :( I hope you can find another one this summer.
I had a much smaller red one two summers ago. It made it most of the way through winter with all of his leaves in tact and then one day they just started dropping until he was as naked as the trees outside. I kept watering occasionally and put him outside once it warmed up. Nothing. I bought a new pink one from the garden center. Wouldn't you know the damn thing started bringing leaves again? His last bloom just dropped off this past week. I didn't have any creepy crawlies on mine though but I do have some good stuff if they attack. I don't have a problem with aphids - my problem is with scale. Gross. And they go after ANYTHING with leaves. They're so hard to get rid of but then I found a spray that does the trick very quickly.
Puddles
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@GoJays I never actually saw any bugs, but there was this ugly stuff all along the vines ( and I mean on all of the vines ) and I would take a kleenex and pull it along and the goo that came off was thick, sticky and orange-ish. I think DH said that it was the poop from the bugs? ( but don't quote me, it is all a blur for me now )
The spray I bought claimed it would get rid of aphids but it actually seemed to make the plant worse ( if that is possible )
I was so nervous the red plant would get infected that we just finally placed the sick one back outside.
On a much much happier note, I really scored this Christmas with THREE Amaryllis plants. They were marked down to $4.00 each and all 3 of them bloomed huge multi flowers on each stalk ( 4 flowers per stalk ) THEN....after they died off they all grew another shoot and that shoot had flowers!!
We were loving that. Everything looked so nice and colourful on that table for Christmas, including the Poinsettas.
I am going to search for another Mandavilla in the Spring. Thanks for your kind words. Seems so silly to get upset over a plant eh? oh well.......
Sometime after Thursday at 2:00 PM and between yesterday morning crocuses and hyacinths started showing their leaves in my garden.
Snowdrops are peeking through the little bits of snow we have left in our front yard!
A lone yellow crocus opened up today.
I saw four shoots (two were yellow and sideways under a pot!) a couple of days ago. I will check to see if crocuses are on the way. Or Siberian scilla.
Four yellow crocuses today.
On Saturday, I noticed most of the tulips have poked up and are growing! So are clumps of grass. :rolleyes:
Daffodils and tulips are on their way. Snowdrops are nearly done. I have to get out there and cut back the rose bush and the clematis before the new shoots pop out.
Lots of yellow and purple crocuses now. Daffodil and tulip shoots are showing now also.
3 flower heads from one Siberian scilla plant were bobbing this morning. All other plants are not showing.
Have 5 scilla plants open at this point and some little purple flowers ...never remember that inverted cone of flowers name...
The grass start to show.But 2 bigs trees where cut in the coop yard....so sad....I loved to see the leaves changing colors in fall from my Windows.
Noticed two white with purple bottom crocuses closed but soon to open--while sprinkling soil around different flowers and plants in the front yard! Thought I was going without any crocus joy in 2018.
Definitely need to buy some crocus bulbs to make 2019 stellar.
6 feet of snow in yard and garden and more expected tonight. So much for global warming. (Saskatchewan)
Some scilla are hanging on under the melting snow cover. Have not checked for other blooms yet. Hoping for a tulip show by month's end.
Could not help but notice how many area trees lost limbs or even parts of trunks due to the weekend's winds/snow/icestorm.
Scilla, hyacinth, tulips, daffodils and my forsythia tree.
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There's a small bromeliad that is up in the front yard and two open daffodils too. I've seen some tulip bulbs hiding amidst the leaves but not one has opened.
I saw a letter to the editor in the Hamilton Spectator that mentions that the Siberian squill is an invasive species that needs to be dug up by the roots. Oh, that would spoil early spring flower spotting.
hostas peeking out the ground, dwarf burning bush standard buds opening, tulip (leaves), crocus (leaves), dogwood buds opening
overwintered 2 varieties of sedum in the garage and they are poking up from the pot, all white like white asparagus
potted rhododendron overwintered poking up from the soil
Finally i see’s few 🌷 tulips coming up through ground ..nothing else so far ..to cold here
Properly maintained soil will result in healthy, flourishing, and long-lasting blooming plants.