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Post by datgirl on Sept 16, 2021 13:07:37 GMT -5
I need some Canna lessons. Found some on clearance marked down to 2.49 a pot, so I bought two pots. One is red, one is yellow. The red pot had 8 stalks and the yellow has 6. When I went thru checkout, they came up as @ $1.24. Sweet. Now what? Do I keep them in their pots over the winter? Do I plant them? If I don't plant them, where do I store them? Mumsey,help.
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Post by Mumsey on Sept 16, 2021 14:48:28 GMT -5
datgirl You can remove the tubers from the pot. Wash them and just put in a box single layer over winter. Cover with newspaper in a cool area. I bought some cheap in pots one year but they didn’t make it this way. So it may or may not work. The are tropicals so planting them won’t work. But strangely this year some I didn’t dig came back because the ground didn’t freeze! Maybe plant some close to foundation or south facing spot and winter some over indoors.
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Post by datgirl on Sept 16, 2021 16:12:56 GMT -5
Thanks Mumsey, If they don't survive I'm only out a couple of bucks.
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Post by gianna on Sept 18, 2021 12:06:09 GMT -5
This morning I picked a very pretty bouquet of zinnias, white feverfew, wispy Rudbeckia triloba, purple Mexican sage, with Lantana and a green bush (Myrsine) for filler. I've been trying to keep a fresh bouquet on the small computer table when possible and this one is nicer than most. So pleased I'm growing more flowers this year, and fewer veggies.
If there was more garden space, and water wasn't an issue, (and I was younger), I'd plant so many more...
Anything worth doing is worth over-doing. ~ Personal motto.
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Post by binnylou on Sept 18, 2021 23:20:02 GMT -5
Can’t be time to be thinking about planting spring flowering bulbs, but I do need to think about purchasing more daffodils. I still have some tulips here and there, but we get winds that really beat them to pieces. The daffodils tolerate the winds much better. And so far, the deer haven’t bothered the daffys, while the tulips get nibbled.
Do you divide your daffodils, or just let the clumps increase in size? Do you add any soil amendments when digging/dividing/replanting?
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Post by gardendmpls on Sept 18, 2021 23:38:10 GMT -5
Do you divide your daffodils, or just let the clumps increase in size? Just let them spread on their own.
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Post by desertwoman on Sept 18, 2021 23:47:24 GMT -5
I don't do anything with my daffs. They are on their own. No dividing, no soil amendments. I do deadhead the flowers when they start to fade so that they don't go to seed and I do not cut back leaves, after they bloom, until they turn brown. This feeds the bulbs. Mine have naturalized through the flowers beds. I buy new bulbs if I want to start daffs in a new area. binnylou ,
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Post by binnylou on Sept 19, 2021 0:02:15 GMT -5
Okay…I won’t bother them. I also deadhead and leave the greenery to turn brown and feed the bulbs. There’s a place in Pella where we have purchased trees. I’ve had the best luck with their daffodils. Plus, they are privately owned and I like to support them.
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Post by SpringRain🕊️ on Nov 2, 2021 11:51:56 GMT -5
binnylou, I thought of you when I saw this lovely collection of dahlias, sent with the VanBourgondien abundant e-mails to generate purchases. I like to look at the flowers, and sometimes the photos of contributor's gardens, but this collection prompted more than a few sighs, and being a dahlia lover, I knew I had to share it with you. It's a beautiful collection, one I think I'll consider for next year. www.dutchbulbs.com/product/cherry-cordial-dahlia-mixture
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Post by Mumsey on Nov 7, 2021 6:20:42 GMT -5
Got those Canna dug. I only dug from the largest clumps, and they were the ones that over wintered. Some huge ones. A 5 gallon bucket from those 2 clumps will be more than plenty for next year. The rest stay in the ground.
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Post by binnylou on Nov 7, 2021 15:31:22 GMT -5
I’ve previously posted that my planting of Lily of the Valley is failing to thrive. They grow beneath a Norway Spruce tree in our windbreak. They are in a mostly shaded situation…getting a mulch of dropped Spruce needles and yard leaves that get blown into the windbreak. I’m not sure what to do for them to help them thrive. Compost? Fertilizer?
Ideas?
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Post by Mumsey on Nov 8, 2021 6:10:18 GMT -5
binnylou, hmmm, they generally thrive under pine trees. Are they a new planting? Regular watering is required to get them going well.
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Post by claude on Nov 8, 2021 6:20:40 GMT -5
I’ve got a small jap maple that I planted some Lilly of the valley underneath. First year just greenery..the past couple years I notice spots popping up in the lawn and one spot where they were originally planted. I’ve yet to figure out what’s going on. 🧐. It’s battling grape vines and some poison ivy where it tries to grow.
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Post by binnylou on Nov 8, 2021 9:19:17 GMT -5
The Lily of the Valley plants have been there for years. Maybe 20 years. I borrowed them from an old gravesite. Told the old fellow I’d bring him some columbine next time I visited. Still gotta do that.
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Post by gardendmpls on Nov 8, 2021 11:09:44 GMT -5
Have some Lily of the Valley that keeps sneaking from the shady corner of the garage to the ajoining bed, trying to crowd out the peas or whatever else useful is there. Need to somehow dig it out or just add more flowers and plant veggies elsewhere.
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