Has your “Blue Fortune” emerged yet??
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Comments (25)I am a big fan of the three plants (at least...) in this hybrid rugosa x foeniculum group. I have all three growing in my garden in some numbers this year, and they are all worth having, long blooming, and all slightly different in the garden 'Blue Fortune' -- definitely a GRAYISH-blue lavendar, it reads as lavendar from a distance but is the lightest of these 3 plants in color saturation and much less bluish than the others. 'Black Adder' -- though somebody said this was lighter than Blue Fortune above, to me eyes this is a darker more saturated color. Seems to be a little taller and more open than Blue Fortune (though that could be the cultural conditions partly). Has been through 2 average z5 winters here so I would say that it is also z5 hardy 'Purple Haze' -- this outstanding plant so far is the best of the 3 for me and the one I would choose if I could only have one. It has a pinkish cast to the lavendar blue, the flowers are slightly smaller and the spikes look a little finer, but the old flowers self shed better so it keeps a tidier, less rangy appearance through the growing season. Fantastic new plant. Some sources say z6 hardy, some z5, has not been through a winter here yet so I don't know. But I think it is of similar breeding background. For me 'Purple Haze' is one of the best 2 or 3 new plants this year. I will try to take some pictures of each of these because they really all are a little different, all fantastic plants. David...See MoreAgastache 'Blue Fortune'
Comments (30)Oh my blue fortune did way better than that, Brenda. Maybe yours didn't get enough sun, water or fertilizer. Conditions can make a big difference, I think. I just got mine at the spring plant sale at Hatcher April 23, so they weren't planted until about the first of May (I'd bought some at last fall's sale, too, but it didn't make it through the winter in pots :( Anyway, here's a picture of mine in bloom in the raised bed I started this year, shot July 12, for comparison... Note that in addition to building this bed the "lasagna" way, with each third layer being the high-yield composted manure (.5-.5-.5), I fertilized it regularly with bloom-booster fertilizer AND gave it a dose of time-release "color-burst" 15-30-15 and watered it every time I thought it needed it (just put the soaker hose on it again today, as it's been VERY dry lately), so perhaps I just gave mine more "oomph." It's still blooming like this, by the way, too, and along with buddleia and some other flowering plants has just FILLED my back yard with more butterflies than I've ever seen in my life! :) (I saw four tiger swallowtails on just one buddleia at the same time this afternoon!) While this bed doesn't receive full sun all day, it does get at least a good 6 hours or more, too... I guess a lot depends on preferences, how you garden, and what your local conditions are. Hope everyone that gets one of yours in Raleigh (which I can't afford to drive to :( ) enjoys theirs as much as I have mine. One of mine was sort of leaning over this afternoon, like it was trying to fall out of the bed, and I leaned it back into the bed... just doing that, just brushing the leaves, set off the most DELICIOUS licorice smell (of course if you don't like the smell of licorice, that won't be a plus, either, lol). Happy Gardening! Jeff...See MoreTransplanting a hosta that has not emerged yet?
Comments (8)You can really do either....move the hostas and plant the peony, or pot the peony and move everything in the fall. First, I've never had any hosta skip a beat that we moved before it came up. I just take my time to find the root ball in the soil and carefully dig it out. They've always come up in their new home as if nothing happened to them...and for that reason, it's my favorite time to move them. You can usually spot them in the soil from either last year's foliage, and stems....or in the case that you cleaned up well, they will show little "hairy" brown plant matter at their centers from last year's eyes. Gingerly dig farther out than you think you need to, to discover how far out their roots are going before you put a big shovel in. Once you know how far out they go, you can circle around that line quite easily. Regarding peonies....they actually do not like to be moved in the spring. I always wait until fall to plant/transplant a peony....but mine are never bareroot and you must plant yours now either into the pot or in the ground, so you may as well put them in the ground where you want them. IF they were in a pot right now, I would advise waiting to plant the peony until the fall. However, the bareroot situation sort of forces you to go ahead and plant now. ( People do this all the time with great success...that's why peony are often sold bareroot, even in big box stores.) If for some reason you decide to pot them, it is no problem. I have grown peonies in pots and overwintered them in the backwoods...they do fine and have been 100% neglected in those backwoods. They are a very tough plant. I've even had them grow up from a tiny piece of root left somewhere in a near empty pot. I recommend that you go over to the peony forum and study how to plant them. If peonies are planted too deeply, they can take years to bloom. I've even had some that didn't flourish at all for years, because they were planted too deeply. Hopefully your vendor shared planting info with you, but if not, go by the standard peony planting instructions on the peony forum. Great opportunity to move your hostas! Let us know how it all goes....See MoreDutch Gardens: Agastache 'Blue Fortune'
Comments (8)Hi, I only have one small 15x15 bed that is in full sun. I have had a 'Blue Fortune' there for about 6 years and haven't had one seedling from it yet. As a matter of fact I wasn't aware that it was a reseeder. Not sure what the reason is. The plantings come up pretty thick there, but other plants have had no trouble reseeding, like cosmos and aslepias incarnata. The bed is bordered on all sides...the street, the driveway, a walkway, and lawn, so that keeps down seedlings traveling too far, but still..every year I have lots of cosmos and butterfly weed and lemon balm and bronze fennel seedlings coming up, but no blue fortune. I bought 'honey bee blue' this year as a plug and growing it on in a pot. It has branched out nicely and is blooming before the blue fortune. These are the only agastaches I am growing though I love many others that all you lucky people in CA can grow. I had Tuti Fruiti and a few others and they died over winter the first season. Adam...See Morelovemycorgi z5b SE michigan
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