Vine Perennial Seeds Can someone please help me? I have a few questions about Cathedral Bells (Cup-and-saucer vine)?
First of all, I live in zone 5, Ontario Canada. I would like to grow Catherdral Bells up a few trellis and fences, but I have a few questions:
1: Are they a popular plant?
2: Are they a perennial in my area?
3: How fast to they grow? As fast as morning glories?
4: When do I plant, what are some tips on it?
5: Do you buy it as seeds, or as roots?
5: Do most nurserys have this vine? I haven't even heard of it until today!
Thanks in advance!
Here are my answers to you... firstly, I am also in USDA hardiness zone 5. Thanks for the reference... it makes answers so much easier.
1. Not very popular. They are not a heavy bloomer in my experience.
2. Not a perennial in zone 5.
3. Slower than morning glory, but still pretty quick.
4. I'd start them from seed, because it's going to be difficult to find as a plant. Start them indoors 2-3 weeks earlier than last frost. They are slow to germinate and I had erratic germination.
5. As seed.
6. I grew it for a couple years at the retail nursery I worked for (in Brighton MI), that is the only place I was aware of it available as a plant. Try a local farm market.
Will the morning glory plant die this fall or come back only from seeds next year. I'm spraying roundup on the vine under my peach trees. Wonder if I'm wasting my time because the plant is about to go dormant or die. ?
It is good you are spraying it, However roundup is best effective when spraying when the plant is producing allot of new growth.ie late spring through mid summer, (but for that pesky weed, any time you can spray it) lol. you will find it to be a hearty plant ,requiring a couple of years of constant spraying, and a couple of times each season. Good luck. PS. if you pull it, the roots break off and it will propagateate from the pieces left behind also.
Summer Silver Carpet Summer wedding colors to coordinate with red chapel?
I am getting married in June in a beautiful, old-fashioned chapel with red carpeting and pews. The reception is outdoors behind a white mansion. I am trying to decide what colors would be best for the wedding. I do not want red bridesmaid dresses (I'll probably choose light blue). I either want to incorporate the red into my wedding colors or make sure the wedding colors do not clash with red. Here are my ideas:
1. Light blue and white (maybe silver or gold accents) -- bouquets would be monochromatic mixed blues
2. Light blue and deep red (bouquets would be red roses with white accent flowers and light blue ribbon)
3. English garden theme -- Light blue with wildflower bouquets (blue, purple, yellow, white, and pink)
What do you think of the above ideas? Or do you have any other beautiful suggestions? Thanks!
Please feel free to suggest other colors I have not yet considered.
Of the 3 you ideas you have chosen, I believe your 3rd idea is the best. With an English garden there are so many different color combinations available without having to worry about the right shade of this or that.
Quick note: my husband was looking over my shoulder, he even liked your 3rd choice. I knew he would since he's a country hillbilly at heart.
Whatever you and your finance decide on, that day will be yours, so make the best of it to your heart's desire.
Inside Look, Trans Am, Silver, 10th Anniversary, Daytona 500 Pace Car Special Edition
Christmas Tree Decorations?
So this summer i got my bedroom re-done. Green carpet, purple walls, green/purple/blue bed set. All green/purple/blue.
And, every year I have a christmas tree in my room. In Previous years it was just like, ugly and non-themed. This year I am doing it to match my bedroom.
I am getting a white tree, pre-lit, 4ft tree. Here are the decorations I have so far.
-6 silver disco-ball bulbs
-5 glittery teal/blue bulbs
- a mix a small silver/green/blue bulbs
-18 long, skinny green/purple ornaments
-3 glittery bulbs with rhinestones
-1 green glittery star thing
-ornaments,like words that say "peace" and ones that say "joy"
-4 blue diamond things
what else could I use? Any ideas for a tree skirt?
On a 4 foot tree that should pretty well cover it, maybe get some of the miniature lights if its a prelit fiber optics tree. As far as a tree skirt you can get decent looking ones at Wal-Mart for under $20.
Flower Garden Landscaping Plans Garden Beginner in Minnesota?
I'm planning to eventually plant a garden at my new home. The house is still in construction and I'm thinking I should at least start landscaping with trees right away in the spring so they can get a head start. I'm in northern Minnesota and hoping someone can give me suggestions for hardy types of trees or flowering trees to plant. Any ideas are welcome.
I'm in Zone 4a. I'm considering Nanking Cherry and hoping butterfly bushes will also thrive here.
I live in Minnesota, too, and I love planting trees. Depending on your locale in MN you are either in zone 4 or 4a, so if you look in gardening catalogs you can choose anything zone 4 or less (zone 3 is even colder, and so on). Haralson is a great tree for MN - an apple tree that is somewhat self-fruitful. Bali Cherry is also great, as is Nanking Cherry - both fruit trees, although Nanking Cherry is more shrubby. Mock orange has a lovely scent and does well in MN (a shrub). Decide how big you want your adult tree to be, since many varieties are available on dwarfing rootstock if the adult tree would be too much for your lot.
I love buying bare root trees from catalogs, since they are so inexpensive and I've never had one die on me. I've even abused one (left it unplanted, let it dry out) and it still did fine. (Don't repeat my experiment - decide your location for your tree, dig the hole and prepare the soil & compost you'll use to fill it before you bring the tree home/before it is delivered. That way you can take it right to the hole and plant it, giving it the best possible start.) Dogwoods and crabapples give nice displays of flowers in the spring, and are also well suited to our climate. Congratulations on having such a fun project ahead of you!
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Create your Own Landscape Design : Designing & Landscaping a Flower Bed Area
How To Plan And Layout A Flower Garden
A flower garden adds a great deal of variety and beauty to the landscape. Many people find that laying out flower gardens is a very rewarding task. And, while it is possible to create a very attractive flower garden without planning it out first, it is much more efficient, in the way of saving time and money, to make a plan for what you would like in your flower garden, and to have an idea of where you might like some of the different flowers.
Then when you are ready to lay the garden out, you have a pretty good idea of what to do, and you are not bothered with having to re-arrange things to account for something that you may not have realized before.
The first order of business to determine when planning out your flower garden is how many annuals and how many perennials you want. Annuals last only one growing season, and therefore have to be replanted each year. Perennials appear yearly on their own. If you have all annuals, you can change your garden layout as you wish every year, and with perennials you have the same layout (unless you wish to transplant all of your flowers).
However, it is possible to have a combination of the two, keeping the perennials where they are each year and varying the charm of the flower garden with a few different annuals in different placement.
Next, you should determine where you will likely place your flowers, taking into consideration the comparative heights of the plants, what time of the year they bloom, and what colors you will use. These things all contribute to an aesthetically pleasing look to your flower garden — one that implies order and beauty rather than looking ill-planned with some plants looking wildly out of place.
Also to take into consideration when planning your flower garden: climate and sun exposure. Make sure that all of the plant you choose for your garden will flourish in your region, and that your garden is placed in a location that will allow the flowers to receive a proper amount of light.
After you have determined what will go in your garden, it is time to prepare the flowerbed. You should mark of the dimensions of your proposed garden carefully. Using a garden hose to mark the boundaries is advisable, as it is heavy and will stay in place, but it also provides the flexibility needed to tweak the proposed shape of your garden.
After you have determined on your boundaries, you need to strip the enclosed area down to the topsoil. This can be done using a shovel for smaller gardens and a sod cutter for the larger sections.
After getting down to the topsoil, you should loosen the dirt by prying up a section with a shovel and then turning over the dirt. This loosens the soil and provides a good place for flower roots to establish themselves. You can make improvements to the soil but adding organic materials such as peat moss, mulch, compost, or manure.
You should probably also roto-till the area to better mix the soil amendments in with the original soil. Next, use a rake to smooth out the soil without packing it down. Create your border with plastic edging, concrete, stones, or by digging around the edges, angling the soil down and creating a gap between flower garden and lawn.
After you have prepared the bed for the garden, acquire the flowers you would like to use. Seeds are less expensive, but you will not be able to see the final result until they spring up. If you purchase flowers in containers, set the containers, with their plants, in the places in the garden that they will inhabit. Then you can get an idea of what the garden will look like.
If you need to move the flowers around for greater attractiveness, it is simply a matter of moving the pot around until the garden looks as you wish it to. After you have settled that everything is in place, begin removing the flowers from their containers and placing them in the ground, beginning from the back and working up toward the front.
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Here are the names of some bands and/or singers. You have to figure out who they are by the cryptic clues that are given. Some are easier than others. Just for fun!!
Shrubbery
Barricade of Perennials
Pasty Reptile
Winter Guard
Infant Babbling Mannequin
Not so Common Half Percentage
Condition of Harmony & Joy
Quick Seamstress
Transfer Below Timber
Have fun!
Bush
Wallflowers
Whitesnake
Snow Patrol
Goo goo dolls
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The Stitches(?)
Carrie (carry) Underwood
If bees use pollen, and it's geneticly modified to contain toxins, and the Chinese have a forest- is it safe
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0310/p14s02-sten.html?s=mesen)
"Scattered across at least seven provinces in China are more than 1 million common poplar trees with an uncommon bite. They can kill the insects that nibble their leaves. Their unusual defensive system is a genetically engineered bomb: Bacillus thuringiensis, or Bt,"
"A problem with pollen
But there's a big catch, experts warn. Trees are perennial plants that produce large quantities of pollen released far higher into the air than ordinary crops. "
Think of a snow storm full of poison how would you stay dry? That's what bees see.
well if food starts to dry up ,,you will see the unloading of many 100 rd m-16 clips into something!!!! bet on that!!!
