Is this season a loss?
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Rose losses and pleasant surprises this season
Comments (33)Jeri, I'm surprised at how pink Monsieur Tillier is. I had thought it had more of an apricot coloring. At any rate, I'll be able to find out next month when I visit the cemetery, thanks to your description of its beauty. For what it's worth, I've never potted on a band and have not lost a single one by planting it straight into the ground, although there are one or two laggards (the prime example being the infamous Ley's Perpetual). I tend to think it depends on the soil and climate one is gardening in, and I consider myself fortunate that it seems to work for me. By the way, Jeri, thanks for enabling me into IHT. It's blooming for the second time after being in the ground for some months and I love the color. I couldn't have found a better plant for my purple garden area. I have been fertilizing bands that have put on new growth with alfalfa meal. Is this an okay thing to do? I haven't seen any adverse effects but would appreciate others' opinions. Regards, Ingrid...See MoreDid anyone else notice a lower bud count this year?
Comments (3)Hmmph, manure in the fall....I usually do compost in the spring....I never really feed the garden in the fall for fear of causing some growth that may get killed with the cold. I'll have to look into that...it make's sense to put it to bed with a full tummy : ) Actually my lilies look good, except the candidum...no buds on any of them this spring... : ( Maybe it was the cold spring...for the peonies for me...they are usually so reliable... I am not sure when they set buds..but this year they didn't do well for me..my neighbor has the same problem with hers too. I guess micro climates abound.. Thanks for sharing! JoAnn I may have to change my name......I lost my two Just Joey roses this year also. Ha ha ha........See More2014 Report on Losses
Comments (48)Bernd, I learned something about Fire and Ice...I'm on my second (in its third year) and it's looking positive. I actually think it does better in a pot than planted in the ground!!! At least here anyway. My first one came up the first spring as a "mini" and took forever to grow at all. I gave it to a relative, lol. ;-). I have never planted this one and last year it was especially superb...I posted pics whenever I got the chance! Even last September it looked fab. No melt-out, nada... just a very happy hosta, in an ugly black nursery pot, getting sun exposure until about 2:00 here in zone 5. Just wanted to share that with you, for what it's worth. Edited to add:. still in ugly pot, purple pips just starting to poke through... I forgot to bring it into the sunlight until just yesterday. It was over wintered on the northwest corner of the house. Think maybe I'll spiffy up the pot by placing it inside a nicer one! It deserves it. Newsflash...you'll never believe it! I just went to check on the number of pips on it and I'm ashamed to tell you that the potting media is the pits! There is gravel and dirt in that pot...no wonder I had to use both arms to lift it!!! Two winters ago when I was potting I ran out of mix and used dirt and some gravel. I lost a piece of my Frances Williams (rotted) but F&I was fine. I had better repot it before I lose it! Duh!...See MoreRecord late and early season freezes
Comments (10)Sorry to hear this, Whsaa. I don't have a fraction of the plants (or space or likely money to spend on plants LOL), but I do understand your frustrations about the weather. I usually keep my weather-related rantings to the Far North forum, but this seems appropriate. Last Oct we had a record-smashing cold of -13 bookended with a record-smashing week of cold in mid April including one day with a low of -11 with the high not reaching freezing for several days in a row. It's actually kind of annoying because I've always wondered what is more damaging, an early or late freeze and I can't even test my hypothesis because we had both! To top it off we just had 8" of the wettest, heaviest snow imaginable that seriously messed trees. The damage is unimaginable. Not a single deciduous tree is unscathed. Snow on June 8th. I lost my ohio buckeye to the snow. I was up all night shaking, but couldn't get the snow off the leaves and it's now in pieces on the ground. smh. Some of my losses from late and early freezes include bigtooth maple, species Austrian pine, prairie fire crab, numerous Canadian roses that I was told were unkillable, numerous other perennials, every raspberry cane from last year which I guess has never happened in my town, burning bush, a betula pendula. So stuff that should be hardy here. Some of my evergreens seem stunted. Little growth on one of my Oregon green austrian pine, one weeping Norway spruce and Tannenbaum mugo. There are dead and stunted trees everywhere. Mature and young alike were hammered. I would say 75% of green ash were killed outright. Thought it was impossible to kill those! Mature cottonwood are dead, too. I've never seen that before, either. Damage to box elders and fried junipers of all varieties. Lots of burn on pines and spruces. It's been an unbelievable year. Two tree species that came out completely unscathed that surprised me was honey locust and ohio buckeye. Not super surprising, but bur oak is pristine, what a beast of a tree. And my butternut seedlings came through unscathed. woop woop!...See Morediggerdee zone 6 CT
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