Mieko2 said:Well to me they look marvelous! I am sure your are happy that they made it through the bad weather, El Pollo.
Which month are you applying the fertilizer? Is it dry or are you mixing up a water soluble solution? Is it organic?
I apply standard pelletized farm NPK fertilizer (the stuff you can buy in big 50lbs bags at Tractor Supply) when the ground starts thawing, which here means late February/early March. I do it at the same time when working the ground to eliminate weeds, then a couple of weeks later everything around the base of the plant gets mulched with straw. I will probably use Thomas's slags next year: I have been shifting to a liquid PK fertilizer with excellent result for other plants but I still have half a bag of it to finish.
We had very cold weather for April year, which resulted in what I can only call an extraordinarily long bloom time: the Renkaku is losing petals now, after over three weeks in bloom. The flip side is not a single Itoh or herbaceous has bloomed yet: Copper Kettle may open this week but it's really unseasonally cold now.
