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 Posted: Jun 06, 2009 1:48 pm Post subject: New plants I am trying this year |
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HuntingtonRay
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This year, I started from seed: Amaranthus, Snapdragon, Bunny tails grass, Nasturtium, Cleome for the first time. Let me know if you have any experience with these. |
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| Posted: Aug 05, 2009 6:42 am Post subject: |
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HuntingtonRay
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Location: Fifer Drive
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Report at mid season:
Amaranthus looks bad. Only about 2 of the dozen plants are doing well. None are as tall or full as they are supposed to be.
Cleome is a star. They started out painfully small and slow, but they are the stars of the front yard garden, and are featured on my garden blog.
Bunny Tails are now producing "tails". One plant is fine, the other not as good, but they are much much smaller than I thought they would be.
Snapdragons are flopping all over the place, but a beautiful bronze orange. I needed to support them. They are not as full as I thought - maybe in time they will fill in, but for now they produced one single stalk of flowers for each plant.
Nasturtiums are very nice - some of them did not do as well as others in the same bed. Go figure. The leaves tend to hide the blossoms. |
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| Posted: Mar 27, 2010 8:18 pm Post subject: Spring Review |
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HuntingtonRay
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Location: Fifer Drive
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Spring 2010
I also added some new plants in the back and side where the terraced platforms are. These plants I did not start from seed but bought. To date:
Last year I finally purchased some purple iris that I wanted - Clarence. These did absolutely nothing all through last summer and fall, but are springing to life now, looking like they may actually bloom this spring. Can't wait.
The sweet box (sarcococca) plants bought last spring did bloom and were heavenly, but I needed to go out to the backyard and kneel down to smell them. Maybe next year they will be more odorous.
There are signs of hostas beginning to pike up, but it's too early to see if the new ones are there.
The ostrich ferm and astilble are nowhere to be found. Let's hope they appear soon. |
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