Hmmm...wonder where that comes from...lol..can't relate it to any variation on the name.
It is very pretty and I'd kept thinking that I want the light pink Constance Elliot (sp?) and the double flowered white also and then remembered that after we move, I probably won't be growing any Rose of Sharon and I gave away last week the last one that I'd rooted to 'take with'. Now my buds are opening and they're so pretty that I'm kicking myself for giving it away...lol..maybe I'd better start another just in case. I've never found any volunteers, but several years ago I was at an arboretum that had the double flowered white and I noticed that there were lots of seedlings around the base. I was itching to have a trowel handy...and a bag...and nobody watching.
I could be wrong...
and.....
"maybe I should have kept my mouth shut....."
The Urge for Seeds is Strong in This One.....
Here's one of the plants I bought when Sue and I went on our nursery run about a week ago. It's Hydrangea 'Everlasting Amethyst' and it starts out in this wonderful combination of colors. The colors will change as time goes on, darn it, but look at those sweet button eyes.
Name: tarev San Joaquin County, CA (Zone 9b) Give PEACE a chance!
Rebutia muscula, continues on blooming. Caught it as it starts to open up again the buds with this early morning warmth:
Indoor orchids are still holding on to its blooms:
Noid phal with double spike:
Phal Baldan's Kaleidoscope onto its third month holding its blooms:
Dendrobium Roy Tokunaga 'Spots' this is holding onto its 5th month with its blooms..really impressive! A true keeper!
Maxillaria tenuifolia-the coconut orchid- is trying its best to push out the blooms..so sad the blooms are stuck..our erratic outdoor temps must be making it harder to do so, plus the extremely low humidity too:
Big Aeonium is still in bloom, though it is getting too top heavy and lanky now, last hurrah!
I thought that rhubarb would not grow successfully down there, but then I knew people who grew it in FB. It grows well here, but mine went into a container and I'm thinking that the crown should have been higher.......I've pretty much reached the age of acceptance...if something does not make it, well I'm sure I have something else to plant in that spot....
I could be wrong...
and.....
"maybe I should have kept my mouth shut....."
The Urge for Seeds is Strong in This One.....
That's what I thought and I was wrong. I was given a healthy chunk by acquaintances in FB, but left it there along with most everything else. I bought a gallon here at HD and potted it into a 5 gal and it died....only can assume the crown was set too low since a nursery friend said the crown should be set high...
The deer question here is variable on rhubarb.......
I could be wrong...
and.....
"maybe I should have kept my mouth shut....."
The Urge for Seeds is Strong in This One.....
Name: Carol Santa Ana, ca Sunset zone 22, USDA zone 10 A.
Maybe it's not toxic to deer, or they just don't like it, so only eat it when there's nothing else. Was the chunk you left in the ground, or container? Doesn't seem like it would do well in a container, to me.
By the way, the two Echium that I got started are now in large pots. One is growing like a weed, while the other just sits there. Don't know if it's the mix or the location, but I haven't killed them yet.
Oh, cool! I wondered how you were doing with those. I will have seeds of other echiums...
No, everything that I 'left' was in pots and given away. The new owner is not a gardener at all and between the water restrictions and her lack of care, I suspect everything there is dead.
I could be wrong...
and.....
"maybe I should have kept my mouth shut....."
The Urge for Seeds is Strong in This One.....
