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Post by breeze on Apr 8, 2018 20:25:34 GMT
Casimira, you chose some beauties. I saw a gorgeous Buff Beauty a few years ago and took photos but I couldn't find them today to verify my memory. If I recall correctly, it was enormous, climbing high on a house front and spilling forward.
Once again we won't be home at planting time so probably no new roses for me this year. Last year the nearby nursery actually had one on my list, Sally Holmes, but they were all sickly looking leftovers from the previous year.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2018 15:46:20 GMT
Yes, Buff Beauty lives up to it's name. A client of mine had one and it performed beautifully.
That soft apricot color and the faint scent...
I don't plan on letting mine get too big yet as at some point soon (I hope...) we will be having extensive work done on the house and where I want to plant it would infere with the work to be done.
Pity you won't be around for planting season but, then again if it's because you're off to some fabulous destination than by all means. Please do keep us posted and don't be a stranger. We don't see enough of you. I always enjoy reading your posts and reports.
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Post by breeze on Apr 9, 2018 21:55:38 GMT
Casimira, that's very sweet of you to say. I get a lot of enjoyment from this site and check in daily even though I don't comment much.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 10, 2018 15:08:41 GMT
My mint grown from cuttings is still going strong after about three years. I am always amazed when it regenerates after winter.
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Post by mossie on Apr 11, 2018 8:01:14 GMT
Can't get rid of the stuff, it is a weed and spreads.
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 11, 2018 11:11:33 GMT
Just grow it in a pot not in the ground.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2018 14:53:06 GMT
The roots will take hold of the ground from the bottom unless you put something underneath the pot. Some bricks or a paver will do.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 11, 2018 15:04:16 GMT
Well, it's in a window box, so it can't go far. I wouldn't have any use for it if I didn't make Indochinese dishes regularly, as well as a few items from North Africa that also use it.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2018 15:29:23 GMT
Being a Southern boy there's always mint juleps K2.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 11, 2018 16:15:36 GMT
Never had one in my life.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 11, 2018 16:37:21 GMT
Yeah -- you should stick to mojitos. Better the devil you know.
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Post by casimira on Apr 29, 2020 14:08:23 GMT
Yesterday, while on a walk in the park I ran into a woman whom I haven't seen in a number of years. She has one of the most fabulous gardens around which includes a huge salvia collection.
She graciously offered me to come to her garden and take away whatever cuttings my heart desired.
While I have a fairly diverse collection myself she had many that I didn't have anymore (having lost them over the years for a variety of reasons).
I came away with 8 or 9 cuttings of some different species and cultivars. I also scored a couple of Frangipani which are ridiculously easy to root.
A happy camper I am !!!
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 29, 2020 14:39:50 GMT
Salvias are lovely. I have the blackcurrant and pineapple varieties. The latter flowers very late which is welcome.
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Post by casimira on Apr 29, 2020 14:47:28 GMT
Most of these are currently in bloom.
There are some I have seen in the Book of Salvias by Betsey Clebsh that I long for, won't thrive here as they require a drier more arid climate, much to my disappointment.
What is the "blackcurrant" one you referenced? I don't any by that name.
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 29, 2020 16:05:30 GMT
Most of these are currently in bloom. There are some I have seen in the Book of Salvias by Betsey Clebsh that I long for, won't thrive here as they require a drier more arid climate, much to my disappointment. What is the "blackcurrant" one you referenced? I don't any by that name. Salvia microphylla. Smells strongly of blackcurrant as you might imagine.
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Post by bjd on Apr 29, 2020 19:10:04 GMT
Those salvia microphylla grow like weeds here. I had some in my garden in Toulouse and they kept re-seeding. I put some other ones in the garden here and two "Hot Lips", near the house. They are already blooming even though I cut them right back last winter.
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Post by casimira on Apr 29, 2020 20:37:36 GMT
They don't get too invasive here although on second thought I do see ones in areas of the garden that the wind must have blown because they have sprouted pretty far away from the original plant.
I love "hot lips". That particular cultivar was bred by a gentleman I met many, many years ago. I met him at a symposium he did here back in the mid 1990's. Richard Dufresne. He lived in North Carolina and bred all kinds of really cool salvias and agastache. His nickname was "The Sultan of Salvias". Sadly he passed away in 2018.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 29, 2020 22:14:55 GMT
I am extremely happy for you on the salvia cuttings score. Bizarrely, considering that many of them are Mexican natives, the only one ever offered for sale around here is good old S. microphylla & even that is seldom seen any more. It's a folk remedy for ear problems and it's habit of growth here is weedy with not much of a flower show, plus it attracts stuff like flea beetles. Do you remember I went with you to that symposium. It was really heady stuff at the time, as the Salvias were just barely coming into their own in the US as worth perennials. Go to the first picture in reply #12 here and then skip to reply #14: anyportinastorm.proboards.com/thread/7787/royal-botanic-gardens-june-2016
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 30, 2020 7:09:34 GMT
Strange because it's a good floriferous plant for me. I do shape it each year though or it would get out of control.
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Post by casimira on Apr 30, 2020 12:32:40 GMT
Oh!!! That's right!! We did go to that symposium together. It was in Gulfport, MS and you had made the drive from Mandeville to meet me because T. and I were staying at that fabulous giant cabin in the woods owned by one of my clients. That was where I met Charlotte Seidenberg for the first time (she was one of my heroines for her classic book "The New Orleans Garden" and was responsible for my knowledge and awareness of the antiginon leptopus 'alba',aka white "Rose of Montana") that I was eventually able to acquire and still have. We remain friends to this day although, I haven't seen her in years as she moved to the Northshore. Back to the salvias...I went and looked at the posts you cited and realized that I had never seen that report because that was during our "summer from hell" when T. was ill and I had no computer at that time. Now, I have something to look forward to in going through all that fabulous report on Kew Gardens. Pity about the scarcity of salvias available there. Hopefully we can solve that problem when you come to the US in October as I will save you all the seeds I possibly can for you. Something to look forward to! Mick, I have to clip and shape most all of my salvias and they do require much "deadheading" to keep in check. I don't mind though because I love them so much. Agastache on the other hand do not perform well here at all much to my dismay. It's too humid for them. I have tried umpteen times to grow them with no success. One of the many plants that don't tolerate our humidity. Aloysia citrodora, lemon verbena being another one. I adore this herb but, "no go" here.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 17, 2021 22:09:34 GMT
I was thrilled to bits yesterday to see a plant I adore, a plant I grew to great effect along a wooden fence when I lived in Louisiana. In my 23 years in Oaxaca, yesterday was only the second sighting of it. In a fit of must-have-even-with-no-space-for-it, I snapped the darling treasure up. It's a Lady Banksia rose! * adore* The lady who sold it to me said it was made from a cutting from one she has which was planted by a grandparent. I said I knew it grew to at least 10 meters. She pointed to a nearby tree with a trunk of at least 5", probably more, & said that was how thick her Lady Banksia is. That makes it even more daunting considering my total lack of space, but I just had to have it. I repotted it today -- four rooted cuttings, one with flowers & one with a bud. Each got its own pot to live in while I ponder where the heck to put one of them. susanrushton.net/2019/05/17/yellow-lady-banks-rose-rosa-banksiae-lutea/
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 18, 2021 6:26:53 GMT
Does Mexico promote vegetal roofs? That could give you more growing space. Not for anything with deep roots of course.
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 18, 2021 8:04:36 GMT
I’m with you on that bixa. I saw that rose trained right along the front of a house in France. It was stunning.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Mar 18, 2021 8:06:03 GMT
I know that it's supposed to happen..but I was chuffed to bits that the ribes (flowering currant) twigs that I stuck in the soil have 'taken' one is flowering and the other is covered in buds. I looked at my forsythia last year and thought 'I wonder if it will grow from a cutting?' So when I was trimming it I shoved a twig in the ground and LO AND BEHOLD! It's only flowering! I love plants me...
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