Has your “Blue Fortune” emerged yet??
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Agastache Blue Fortune a REAL perennial in zone 5a?
Comments (8)I only grow Agastache foeniculum âÂÂGolden Jubileeâ but it's not only reliably hardy where I am, it generously self-seeds in my garden beds. The Missouri Botanical Garden lists 'Blue Fortune' as hardy to Z5 and I find the information at their website to be pretty accurate (see link). Agastache is in the mint family, as is Monarda/bee balm. Feel the stems--they're square. Mint is generally considered a pretty tough perennial. Here is a link that might be useful: Missouri Botanical Garden...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 Morerussian sage vs. agastache (blue fortune?)
Comments (18)PrairieMoon, In my opinion, raised beds are the best way to make the right habitat for plants that don't like our natural soil. I have a bunch of them, made from granite cobble blocks from Home Depot, as well as some that were made using rocks from my property (a bumper crop of rocks every time I stick a spade in the ground) against a wall. You excavate out a foot or more of clay soil and replace it with your special blend, which has to be refreshed once a year with new compost but otherwise is carefree. I use planters and containers for hardy plants (I only use plants that are hardy to at least one zone colder than the local climate). The lavender I have is a Goodwin Creek variety that is only zone 7 hardy, so is marginal in my 6b garden. I bought it last winter and kept it next to a sunny window, then put it outside this year and refreshed the soil. It will come back in before the frost. With the hardy L. angustifoliums that will overwinter outside in our climate, I've found it's not enough to add gravel to existing soil; you really do have to remove the soil and totally replace it with that "Mediterranean" soil. I've had luck with my alpines and other dry-loving plants using a soil made from 2 parts bagged topsoil, 1 part coarse/builder's sand, 1 part turkey grit or small gravel, and 1 part compost (veg or manure)....See MoreConeflowers Haven't Emerged Yet... Dead?
Comments (10)You do touch on quite an essential issue there, Nevermore - one which has resonance for strawberry growers or those of us who foolishly persist in growing meconopsis...and that is the lack of balance (and hormonal and metabolic activity) between root, leaf and bloom. It has always been my practice to sacrifice blooms for a year in order to build up enough root mass able to push enough foliage to feed.photosynthesise a plant to build up reserves over the winter and to maintain sufficient internal resources to carry a plant through the draining period of blooming...and I rather suspect that the hybrid echies are of that ilk. Campanula Kent Belle is another...which can, quite literally, bloom itself to death. Asters too.Not to say NO blooms at all - but for hybrid growers, it might be in order to leave just one bloom on each plant while disbudding any arising stems later in the season...with the promise of a payoff in later years. I used to do this with small own root roses too - the first season after being raised as a cutting, I would only allow one speculative bud to form and disbudd the rest. eta - not totally sure 'disbudd' is a word, especially with 2 ds....See Morelovemycorgi z5b SE michigan
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