Tell me about Pentas lanceolata (Egyptian Star Flower)
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Is Pentas lanceolata over rated in Zone 5?
Comments (17)Hi Maryann, To answer your question about my screen name, my wife and I are professional flower photographers and freelance garden writers. I aspire to be a gardener. Alas, even after 20 some years, I know next to nothing about gardening and less about butterflies. But I keep trying :-) Bronze Copper Butterfly I keep thinking that if I do something long enough, I'll eventually get good at it. I tell myself this everytime that I fail to keep another garden plant alive in my yard. I keep hoping that I'll do better next year. Hope springs eternal. Then, every once in a while when I'm in the garden, I'm in the right place, at the right time, and the light is perfect. A butterfly floats in and lands on a flower in front of me and I get a nice photograph. That's what I live for. Every year I strategically plan out my garden to give me some interesting photographic opportunities. But my best photographs always turn out to be about luck and about being there, being there in the garden. Maybe I'll never be a great gardener. Maybe I just do gardening because I enjoy being in the garden with the flowers, the butterflies, and the camera. Being there and waiting for luck to happen. Questionmark Butterfly Susan, I did see butterflies on my Nanho Blue. But I believe that finding the perfect location in your garden is more important then selecting the perfect cultivar. All of my Buddlejas cultivars attract some butterflies. My most productive plants are in spots of full sun (8 hours) and high heat (little nearby shade). When I grow these plants under less sun duration and/or near a shade tree, I attract many fewer butterflies. The shaded plants do bloom, but the blooms don't attract neary as many butterflies. My guess is that heat from a blazing sun it what causes the flowers to emit the proper fragrance. My best plants are also on south facing slopes. One is on the edge of a cement driveway (very hot in summer). Rain drains away and the soil heats up quickly. My poorest plants are those that are partly shaded (only 5 hours of sun). Originally, all of my Buddleja plants were in full sun, but the trees that I planted 20 years ago have grown a bit. Tom...See Morestar flower - penta
Comments (2)I grow penta, of all various colors... they are hardy, and the snails and slugs do not like them. I buy them at Wal-marts but now I have thousands of seeds popping up. I like the dark red the best. Penta have grown up to five feet, I keep them cut for a year around growth. Note that they like full sun to full shade, I have them growing wild under the house. In the shade they grow to about six inches. I live in the windward side of Oahu....See MoreI need help finding a red flowering plant for full sun
Comments (21)I have to say this and no one will believe me but I have red geraniums in pots on the west side of my house - no shade - and they make it through the summer, WITH blooms. I am going on two years now. By late summer my watering is probably every other day.........and some of them are even living in a big clay pot which dries out fast. Did I mention that they also make it through the winter in those same pots with no protection? In February, I pulled out a few of the plants and replaced with new ones but there are still "old" plants in the pots and they are all blooming together! Last Spring when I planted the geraniums, I thought they would be my "Spring bloomers" and that I would be replacing them in the summer but they never died or got distressed looking so I have kept them on. I was truly amazed! I guess my point is that geraniums must be hardier than we give them credit for. Or maybe they just like the front of my house! Maybe nonbryan can try some red geraniums in pots if he doesn't want to dig out clay :)...See MoreTell Us About Your Favorite Collection...
Comments (130)This is a great thread. We all love what we collect and isn't it wonderful that most of us collect something different? I collect blue and white Staffordshire Transferware from England, early to mid 1800's. I have over 100 Cup Plates, a little more or less than 4" diameter. They were used as a coaster with the handless cups with bowl shape saucer of 6" from the 1820-1850 period. Often confused with a child's plate from a toy tea set. I also have many patterns of dinner ware pieces of a specific potter E. & G Phillips, Longport England. American butter stamps, butter churns and English cream pots with dairy names stamped or transfered on the pot and numerous other things too many to list. I am just addicted to antiques and collectibles. I also clean and repair and resale and upgrade my English china. So my life is a constant buy, clean, repair, resale, collect more upgrade..etc. I tell my husband I am recycling and being green! I love,love, love what I do. I cannot imagine not ever being able to buy and also resale to share my knowlegde. I also have an extensive library of reference books and love researching everything....See Morerouge21_gw (CDN Z5b/6a)
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