What are those gorgeous acid green leaves
- Marge_Talt
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- LadyB
- CarolWallace
- Cottage_Garden
- Sonni
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- Marge_Talt
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» Marge_Talt - Well, Lady B, I have done a tad of deadheading on some of mine t
Well, Lady B, I have done a tad of deadheading on some of mine that are right next to our most used path....but not for all summer! Otherwise, if I tried it, that's all I'd end up doing in the garden. I've got columbines all over the place.I love Aquilegia canadensis and had a good stand of it for years until it morphed into a darker version of the mongrels I've got - too much hanky-panky amongst them while I wasn't looking. By the time I realized what was happening, it was too late. Got three new ones last year, so now I've got it back again - for a while - until they start playing around again.
Marge
Gardening in
Shade
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» Marge_Talt - When have you ever known a bunch of gardeners to stick to a give
When have you ever known a bunch of gardeners to stick to a given topic??? :-)I probably should move things to a new subject - but figure everyone would get lost. But, for the poor person just joining this thread, thinking it is actually about georgous acid green leaves......
Marge
Gardening in
Shade
-- posted by Marge_Talt
» LadyB - I saw a columbine with gorgeous acid green leaves once! Lady
I saw a columbine with gorgeous acid green leaves once!Lady B, Weeds and Wild Things Cold Spring, New York
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» CarolWallace - I think columbine leaves are gorgeous until they get the leaf mi
I think columbine leaves are gorgeous until they get the leaf miner - and for some reason mine didn't this year. Most of them remained in a nice mound all year.And yes - I think it's the Woodbine Columbine that has beautiful acid green leaves. <img src="http://www.suite101.com/userfiles/79/rhubarb.gif" alt="rheum" align=left>
Carol
virtually gardening
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» Cottage_Garden - Some hostas have a color like that, at least early in the season
Some hostas have a color like that, at least early in the season! Barbara MartinThe Cottage Garden Editor
-- posted by Cottage_Garden
» Sonni - More Ipomea container photos
Hi all. Sorry I've been gone so long. I missed thegreat conversation.
I had to laugh at myself. After running downtown
to photograph the pots of Ipomea Margarita and Blackie (see Sonni's photos in the discussion area) I discovered two weeks later that they are
growing on the next street near my office! A gourmet grocer added a wooden awning above his shop and has pots of Ipomea Margarita spilling out in all directions! I just hadn't looked UP for a while! And since you had all identified the plant for me, I have seen it in many other places. Funny!
Anyway, here is a web page for a Connecticut garden shop that has interesting combo's of those two (Margarita and Blackie) as well as other additions. Thought it would be a nice addition to this container discussion -- and I can't wait to try some come Spring (sigh)....
http://www.connmart.com/mcardle/containe...
Best regards, Sonni
-- posted by Sonni
» LadyB - hey, Sonni!
I was just thinkin' aboutcha! Was futzing and puttering in my greenhouse and thought to tell you how well my two 'margarita' and one 'blackie' cuttings are doing!I'm going for the drama next season. Blackie goes into the Moon Garden to set off all the white flowers and silver foliage.
I think I WILL use the two 'margarita's' in the containers on the Main House back patio. Thanks for the pics (especially with everything identified!) This past season three various sized pots on each corner of the patio were planted with great, white, floozy petunias, blue salvias, small yellow marigolds, blue lobelia, and silver helichrysum. It worked pretty well (considering the star of the patio is a tangerine/orange Madame Galen trumpet vine.....) But I may get some really juicy ideas from the photos and REALLY do something fun next season!
Many thanks!
-- posted by LadyB
» Sonni - :( my cuttings didn't make it
I'm so happy, Lady B, that your cuttings are growing. Sadly, my cuttings, which grew roots so quickly didn't seem to make it once planted. I'm not sure why - unless they are under the soil waiting to surprise me. All the other cuttings I took that day are doing well, though, including some other unknown ground cover type plants (another discussion, I'm sure....).Also glad you enjoyed those photos too. (I was pretty psyched when I found it and immediately wanted to share it here.)
Any suggestions of where I can order Ipomea's once the winter is over? Or do they need to be started from little potatoes, I wonder?! I am also now interested in the ipomea "pink frost" that is listed and shown on the web page from that Connecticut garden. Never saw one of those! Hopefully these will all be happy in bright shade.
I would love to have all three of them in a large pot. The way the Margarita's flow are so dreamlike to me....
Now I'm rushing over to read the discussion on wintering container plants to see how my preparations compare. Give your Ipomea's a "hug" from this New York City admirer.
-- posted by Sonni
» Marge_Talt - More container photos + my cuttingd didn't make it
Hey, Sonni, welcome back! I've missed you, too...was thinking of you just the other day while reading an article in the new NARGS quarterly by a guy who grows alpines on a balcony in NYC...all about wintering them over. If I can get my act together, I mean to copy it and snail mail it to you. (Know I still owe you email - amazing just how far behind I am in that dept.!)Well, I have looked at each and every one of those photographs and drooled.
Why, oh why don't my containers look anything like those? Huge sigh! They truly are an inspiration and I must have that Ipomea 'Pink Frost'! LUST! Thank you so much for posting that site. I sure hope they are still alive when it comes time to get annuals and think about putting some nifty containers together for next summer!
Re: Your cuttings. I don't know why they didn't make it, although I am finding that a few I stuck in a glass of water have made roots while the upper portion has rotted or withered away??? Most odd. I have yet to get around to potting them up; will report on whether they make it or not. I did bring in the one I had in a pot (although it got frosted) and I have one doing well that I dug out of the border - it had actually made a tuber.
I know that Logee's sells 'Blackie' and, I think also 'Margarita', tho' I don't have the catalog handy and they don't have them on their web site. But if you want to order a free catalog, you can online. They have a lot of non-hardy nifty plants. I know other nurseries also offer at least 'Blackie', too, but Logee's is where I got mine and came to mind first.
-- posted by Marge_Talt
» Marge_Talt - cuttings
Lady B, did you start your cuttings in water or a potting medium? Are they getting bottom heat? Any pointers for the rest of us on how to do them successfully???-- posted by Marge_Talt
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