Mr List Blog - 9th year 2018

[Mr List]

i like sikkimensis much more than basjoo atm so if it doesnt overwinter in the ground i would plant each year like bedding if i can get that much growth per year from nothing.

taking pups at the end of the year to pot up over winter for planting next year seems a ay to do this without needing to buy each year, though i wouldn't mind a go at getting a sikki with the red leaf streaks if things to go tots up.

what do you think had been the problem with them for you?
if they need better drainage than basjoo i might not have much luck either.

[Yorkshire Kris]

i like sikkimensis much more than basjoo atm so if it doesn't overwinter in the ground i would plant each year like bedding if i can get that much growth per year from nothing.

taking pups at the end of the year to pot up over winter for planting next year seems a ay to do this without needing to buy each year, though i wouldn't mind a go at getting a sikki with the red leaf streaks if things to go tots up.

what do you think had been the problem with them for you?
if they need better drainage than basjoo i might not have much luck either.

They are simply not as reliably hardy as basjoo. My best one grown from seed was fantastic last year with bright red markings. It was grown in a tub and put into the garage overwinter where there was no visible frost and lowest temp around -6. It didn't make it even though washies and gingers etc did no probs.

[Mr List]

being in a pot can be a big factor to survival.

i will just try them, nothing else to be done

[grub]

I always find Sikkis keep growing when the weather cools off whereas Basjoo almost stops but they're always cut to the ground in winter,slower to start than Basjoo the following year and never survive 2 winters as they don't make the same kind of growth the second year as the first:evil:. I tend to grow them to about 5' before planting out now and then they grow really well when let loose in the ground, I do prefer them as singles though and IMO Basjoo looks better as a mat .

[Mr List]

you don't wrap them though do you?

on cooltropicals they seem to be ok while wrapping but when he doesnt wrap them they die off.

[Mr List]

little update:

my plants from my crug order:

hydrangea aspera sub-species robusta
fuchsia paniculata
hosta big daddy


http://i1198.photobucket.com/albums/aa4 ... orama1.jpg

couple pics of garden:
i can't wait for this sikki leaf to open. i hope it gets the chance to do so naturally without the wind opening it prematurely.







http://i1198.photobucket.com/albums/aa4 ... mo1/z3.jpg
http://i1198.photobucket.com/albums/aa4 ... mo1/z2.jpg
http://i1198.photobucket.com/albums/aa4 ... mo1/z1.jpg

[grub]

you don't wrap them though do you?

on cooltropicals they seem to be ok while wrapping but when he doesnt wrap them they die off.

Sorry Ken I hadn't seen this until now; no, I don't protect anything; it lives or it dies, callous I know but life's too short with four kids, a wife, a mother and a mortgage to be poncing about in the garden . (and I'm a lazy bastard that can't be bothered to keep digging stuff up, but if it survives in the north facing mud puddle I've got here it'll almost survive anywhere )

[Mr List]

1 winter bedding


banana plants and trex








canna, nana and stuff














a confused armandii
these are supposed to flower in spring on old wood, this fellow felt two flowers on new wood in autumn was called for



bottom garden area








my brug has had three big snappages this year all on the same branch/side even though i have rotated it between breaks
. more or less all my new height this year had been snapped off.

[Adam D]

little update:

my plants from my crug order:

hydrangea aspera sub-species robusta
fuchsia paniculata
hosta big daddy


http://i1198.photobucket.com/albums/aa4 ... orama1.jpg

That Hydrangea looks good.

Are you pleased with it?

The leaves are quite different to my macrophylla.

[Yorkshire Kris]

Your garden has come on amazingly well this year Mr Ken List.
So much interest in all parts of the garden. The next stage is keeping it going next year with bigger overwintered plants and more summer bedding.

Great stuff! And at last you can see your images full size!

[Trudytropics]

Wow that's so much different to earlier pictures, looking good. On more than one occasion you have passed comment on others members TRex being 'Bonsai', I thought yeah right, bet his is not that big . Well I eat my words, thats a monster, some of those leaves are humongus, it must really like that spot, well done

[Mr List]

little update:

my plants from my crug order:

hydrangea aspera sub-species robusta
fuchsia paniculata
hosta big daddy


http://i1198.photobucket.com/albums/aa4 ... orama1.jpg

That Hydrangea looks good.

Are you pleased with it?

The leaves are quite different to my macrophylla.

i dunno so far. looks a bit weedy atm and your macrophylla looks very thick and lush.
i don't think the leaf shapes are as different as the crug site makes out.

it is nicknamed the himalayan tree hydrangea and if it grows like the name suggests then that is the effect i am looking for.

[Arlon Tishmarsh]

Certainly filled out nicely

brug caught my eye, looks the same as mine but yours much much bigger

[Adam D]

i dunno so far. looks a bit weedy atm and your macrophylla looks very thick and lush.
i don't think the leaf shapes are as different as the crug site makes out.

it is nicknamed the himalayan tree hydrangea and if it grows like the name suggests then that is the effect i am looking for.

It's early days for it though and mine was planted out in the ground in April and has been loving the wet summer we have had.

[Mr List]

people have been posting before and after pictures so i felt like doing it too

this one is about mid march 2011


this on is about late april early june 2011




this is today 19/09/11