Fast-growing container plant to give shade to south-facing balcony
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Comments (10)Have an enjoyable safe trip. Here is one more idea that you could do that may increase the odds of keeping your new flowers alive under intense sun exposure - acclimate your newly purchased flowers for a week or two in the original nursery containers and at he same spot as the hanging planters under like growing conditions before repotting or transplanting them. Transplants (and seedlings) are vulnerable and very sensitive to external changes in light/wind/heat/water even just with a foot of difference in relocation and without direct sun exposure in my experience. When I start to see some wilting (due to more loss of moisture on top by the leaves than is taken in by the roots) in new transplants and always in shade first, I sometimes have to partially protect the top wilting portions of large newly transplanted plants in light-weight small clear plastic boxes or enclose smaller transplants entirely in glass jars in the new shady location for a week. Moving and gardening in steps help the flowers avoid and slow some transplant shock and moisture loss even when they do not have the scortching sunlight to contend with....See MoreFast growing shade tree reccomendation for eastern CT
Comments (27)Greetings, I am new here and don't know much about trees but what I can tell U is this. 1. I've done a lot of research on the October Glory and from what I've read, you really can't go wrong with that thing. Matter of fact, I just planted one in my front yard between my sidewalk and street. 2. I just moved into my home a couple of years ago and we have this really, really, cool tree in the back yard that I have never seen. After two years I've finally had enough interest to find out what it was. I've discovered that it is a thornless, seedless Honey Locust tree.. It's quite large, the bark is really cool looking, the tiny leaves are aswesome. and there is hardly no clean up in the fall. The leaves just seem to disappear. Yet it gives great shade and from what I have read it's growth rate is pretty high. I just love the way that thing looks in the back yard. We even bought one of those tree face kits and put it on there..Something like this http://www.yardlover.com/products.php?catID=1491 Only annoyances i have are that I do get a couple branches laying around after a strom and in the spring time I get little tiny seeds or flowers falling on my patio. I would recommend the Honey Locust - It has that look that you are in a tropical location... Good Luck...See MoreBamboo for container, shade, fast-growing
Comments (3)I would just bring the pot into your garage if you can, or your house. As the temperature gets colder, you may see the culms start to die, and becuase the plant is in a pot, the entire root system may suffer. Just watch the weather. If you think it is too cold, trim it down, and haul it inside....See MoreContainer rose for north-facing balcony?
Comments (11)Thank you for the tips. Stupidly, I hadn't considered that shade here would be different from shade in the UK, where I grew up hearing my mum complain endlessly about a north-facing strip in our garden where nothing would grow. So maybe I have more choice than I thought. Marlorena your roses are fabulous! I hadn't thought about Austins as we already have a few which seem very happy in containers on our sunny, south-facing terrace. I didn't know they would/could bloom so well in shade. What size are your pots? Comtesse thanks for the suggestions. I very much like Felicia which I believe is a hyrid musk, could this be trained as a climber? All measurements are estimates as it's raining, but I have 2 options (or perhaps 2 roses knowing how enabling gardenweb is!): a) a container in the centre of the balcony with a trellis 4-5ft wide to grow up until about 8ft where the windows finish - if the rose grew beyond this it could fan out or grow horizontally. The container would have to be pretty narrow (10-12inches) but I was hoping I could compensate with extra depth and length. I guess not too thorny in this position would be good. b) a wider container at the end (nobody needs to pass so could theoretically be pretty big here) with a narrow 3ft trellis. If the rose reached the top of the windows (8ft from the ground) it could be trained horizontally above the window....See MoreHU-477516992
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