Is it possible to ID a Hydrangea macrophylla given to me?
Sue Hughes Zone 6b in Pittsburgh
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Please help me ID these Hoyas given 2 me
Comments (7)There is a group of us gardenwebbers that get together a couple of times a year for a plant swap and Bar-B-Q. Some of us ladies get together thru out the year, visiting each others gardens and swapping plants and going to plant sales and nurseries together. It is one of these ladies who I visited with that I received these plants from. It is now her turn to visit with me and we hope to make a side trip to Gardino's nursery. Denise....there is a yellow heushkeliana and I think that is what I may have. It does have peduncles on it now and they sure do look like all the photo's I see. I just wish I could get a good picture to show ya'll. Would make me feel so much better if it was confirmed. You confirmed my thoughts pretty much on the others.#8 has to be some kind of a publicalyx, #5 has me baffled too. Several of these Hoya's have the huge leaves with stout vines. And I think I read somewhere that you are a big fan of the big leaf hoya's. pugluvr I feel very fortunate that I received these plants from this wonderful and generous lady. I hope I can return her gererousity 10 fold when she visits with me. Thanks again everyone for taking the time to look and ID for me. Regina...See MoreLate season pruning Hydrangea Macrophylla
Comments (1)Hay, I will have to apologize to my neighbor. She is from Buzzard's Bay, Mass and upon seeing my hydrangeas, was telling me how she used to cut her's back all the way to the ground each winter and they would come up and flower every year. This was maybe 15 years ago that she lived up there so I knew they probably weren't ES but more likely Nikkos. I must admit, I thought her story didn't add up. Surely she must have been mistaken. How could you get flowers when you cut off all of the buds? Well, this year I have had a profusion of blooms that came from buds on the crown of the plants. I had tons of buds on the crowns. I had also cut back (to the ground) some disfigured stems last year. Since this is supposed to stimulate new growth from the crown as I am sure you have heard, is it possible that by cutting back hard, you, I and my neighbor may have just stimulated tons of crown buds? If so, then we wouldn't have to worry about disquising them (or burying them) every winter. I noticed that I did not have the same profusion on the plants that were not cut back...hmmmm....Can't wait to see the results of your in ground experiment. Thanks again for yet another thought provoking thread!!...yg...See MoreHydrangea Macrophylla Endless Summer and Blushing Bride
Comments (2)Blushing bride was introduction of last year and looked quite nice in the nurseries. Prices were too steep for me so I will have to wait. Endless summer I had for couple of years and it has been relialbe performer for me. We shall see how they tolerate this winter when they almost went into full bud this unusually warm Jan....See MoreHydrangea macrophylla 'Pistachio' or what?
Comments (4)Pistachio is the trade name (name under which it is marketed) for the cultivar Hydrangea macrophylla 'Horwack'. Similarly, 'Schloss Wackerbarth' and Glam Rock seem to be the cultivar and trade names of a different H. macrophylla. Tony Advent (owner of Plant Delights Nursery) wrote this explanation, "The current improper use of trademarks in the horticultural industry had its origin more than a half century ago. The worst culprits, in the early years, were the rose and bedding plant industry. The rose industry seems to have been the first to use nonsensical, non-conforming names for plant cultivars, while the bedding plant industry completely thumbed its nose at the Code by not even bothering to come up with any cultivar names for most of their introductions. One of the most famous roses in horticulture is one that everyone knows as Peace. Surprisingly, there is no such plant as Rosa 'Peace'. The plant we grow under this name is actually Rosa 'Madame A. Meilland'. The trade name Peace was coined by Conard Pyle Nursery, and used to market Rosa 'Madame A. Meilland' after World War II to capitalize on the post-war sentiment. The plant became known in the public's mind as the Peace rose. Some of the larger nurseries soon realized that regardless of the cultivar name of the plant, they could come up with their own proprietary (trademarked) marketing name and use these names to promote plants which already had valid cultivar names. The idea was to convince the public that the company's marketing name was actually the name of the plant. The next step in the downward spiral was when nurserymen began intentionally giving their new plants stupid nonsensical cultivar names. Subsequent plant promotions would often only tout the marketing name, causing the consumer to often not realize the plant had a real cultivar name. The cultivar name, if included at all in ads and tags, would be printed in very small print in comparison to the "marketing name". The entire idea is for the company's marketing (trademark) name to become the generic name of the product in the consumer's mind. The practice of using nonsensical names violates the entire purpose for having an International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants while the use of trademarks as generic names violates the legal use of trademarks." You can read the rest of the article on the Plant Delights website. I don't know a lot about the rules for plant cultivar names, but this whole thing of having the cultivar name and a cutesy marketing name adds a great deal of confusion to the process of IDing plants. To be technically correct, one should put the cultivar name in single quotes and the trade name not....See MoreSue Hughes Zone 6b in Pittsburgh
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