The Lackadaisical Garden
Christopher CNC
2 years ago
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Comments (12)I am the stick them in some sterile medium and vermiculite in a 4 " pot under an oak tree type of rooter. NO PLASTIC! Some I dip in Hormone and some I don't. I like to wait for my salvias, tecreum, Mexican oregano, Flame acanthus to put on new growth in the spring, but before they bloom. I do not bother with cuttings in the heat of the summer. I did just have luck rooting some tecreums though. I do not mist, I water. Some salvias are harder to root than others. I find that salvia chiquita rots on me. I have great luck with the woody greggiis, salvia reglas Mexican salvias, S chionyphylla, S. officionales, S chamaedryoides. Chiquitas and reglas start from seed so easily. Hotlips like to root early in spring. Mexican salvias like to stay damp not we,.and not dry out. I think they do not like the hormone as much. They will root in clay based humous. In Austin , I used to just stick them in the ground and they would root.I think one can use too much hormone. One wants to dampen and dip just a dusting on the stems. Sometimes I just wet it with my mouth if ..Yuck. Too lazy sometimes to walk in and get a glass of water to dip them in. It is not rocket science. If it was I would not be rooting because I am a slap happy lackadaisical gardener at best. I have not rooted rosemary. I think rosemary has to be timed specifically. Have you googled rooting Rosemary?? Certain plants have a window in the time of year. some plants will root on semi hard, some on hard wood and some on soft wood. I usually take rosemary branches and scrape the underside and weight them down in the dirt till they develop roots....See MoreOn A Rainy Afternoon With Organized Chaos
Comments (5)You can look at it for hours because it is vibrating with life. Bugs and butterflies float overhead. The song birds love this kind of habitat. The hummingbirds come right to the front porch and I don't use a feeder. Come fall, flocks of goldfinches will dive bomb the seeds. Hawks and raven during the day. Owl at night. Along with all the other creatures of the night. I can stand out here and scream 'Get Off My Lawn' and nobody will hear me. The deer of course won't shoo with just a bellow. You have to chase them off....See MoreProblem with Cimicifuga blooming
Comments (13)I should probably explain :-) my gardens are overrun and very ratty looking because I have to cope with a lot of aches and creaks, pains, low energy and, global warming?, It has been so doggone unforgivingly hot and muggy, it rained For five week, then got 95 degrees and humid. I’m an ocean person stuck in muggy interior New England for a while longer. My gardens used to look nice but between some injuries and caring for aging parents, a lot of my plants, including a really pretty roses, took a deep dip. I had to move the C. r from an area that was getting very overgrown w. weeds. I put it into a half bushel pot and meant to get back to it. ;-/ I water it when I refill the birdbath and am surprised it’s continued to live. If I have any photo of it, it was probably taken back when it was in the ground. The pot that it’s in has only about half the soil it wants, but leave the collected over the stems and I guess that shades a bit so that it doesn’t dry out. The soil line is about 8 inches down into the pot :-) and the foliage sticks about 14 to 16 inches up. The tops of the bloom stocks get about 3 feet or so from the soil line. Perhaps more. The plant is living but it doesn’t look luscious. I should probably take better care of that someday when I get extra wind. I think it gets may be scattered sunlight, in total perhaps 5 to 6 hours. I’m in a woody area with a lot of trees and I’m also on a north-facing slope close to wetlands. If I recall correctly this plant culture is for parts sun, part shade and perhaps moist soil but not wet. I hope you can read my poor typing because I’m using part voice part hand. For some reason I have a really hard time typing into Houzz. Rouge’s photo is lovely. I’m going to guess the opening is to the south of the C.r Mine never got that tall where are used to be, and it doesn’t get that tall or lovely in the plastic part of course. Most of my plants struggle for good light. This year between all the rain and then be very hot weather, I didn’t get any tomatoes. A PG delphinium did well Yes, the pot stays out all year. we are on a wooded north facing slope and the southern exposure has tall maples and oaks that inhibit my sun-loving plants, but for a few openings that let a few hours of sunshine through....See MoreGardenHo_MI_Z5
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