Flowers 2020
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Omono
Hope you don't mind me asking a question here, didn't think it warrented a separate thread.
Got these two, fuchsia magellanica gracilis. Wanting to put them in my front garden. Would they be best in pots or in the ground? Front garden is currently just lawn but was thinking about pulling some up and turning into a flower bed
Unsure which would be best, as I know they don't like frost
Got these two, fuchsia magellanica gracilis. Wanting to put them in my front garden. Would they be best in pots or in the ground? Front garden is currently just lawn but was thinking about pulling some up and turning into a flower bed
Unsure which would be best, as I know they don't like frost
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If you want to develop the fuchsia for bonsai, then I would keep them in pots that you can move indoors on frost nights. Sometimes trunks survive freezing, often the trunks do not. They should be root hardy, and come back from the roots no problem.
I'd keep them in large pots, move them to avoid hard Frost's and freezes, as necessary, as it takes some time to develop the caliper, trunk diameter, needed for bonsai.
Below, a western North America Opuntia species. It's not O. humifusa, it's not the locally native Michigan species. I forget which species it actually is. Got it from a collector of hardy cacti. It is in a 10 gallon pot, filled with gravel, no soil. Has spent 4 winter's in that spot. Leaf pads lay flat for winter, then stand back up for summer. Kind of fun.
pweifan
Shohin
This is beautiful! What is it?
tainoson
Sapling
coltranem
Chumono
Another daylily...this one is typically a double but so far this is more like a single.
Zucchini anyone?
Zucchini anyone?
Forsoothe!
Imperial Masterpiece
Zuchini is an offense against nature. Real men eat squash that ripens in autumn and stores until March. I'm just sayin'...
coltranem
Chumono
@Forsoothe!
If you're are talk crap at least post a picture. You response would have been much better with a squash blossom.
Xia Xiang
Forsoothe!
Imperial Masterpiece
I don't raise squash, it takes up too much space and the farmers do a bang-up job providing as much as I can eat, so a photo of a squash flower would be something I can't provide. I can show you a picture a hot lady ready to mate every day. She beckons me from just outside my den window about 10 in the morning, and I provide the service she loves the most, a new suitor every day....
atlarsenal
Omono
Freckle-face lily
Forsoothe!
Imperial Masterpiece
A serious bank of Butterfly Weed...
pweifan
Shohin
What's this one, Carol? I'm not placing it. That's a beautiful little flower.
It's a Pink Fairy Serissa cutting. That it's blooming is some encouragement, I haven't had much luck with cuttings.
