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Re: Mr List garden BLOG - last vid tour - August 2011
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.
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.
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Re: Mr List garden BLOG - last vid tour - August 2011
Mr List wrote: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.
Re: Mr List garden BLOG - last vid tour - August 2011
being in a pot can be a big factor to survival.
i will just try them, nothing else to be done
i will just try them, nothing else to be done
Re: Mr List garden BLOG - last vid tour - August 2011
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 .
Re: Mr List garden BLOG - last vid tour - August 2011
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.
on cooltropicals they seem to be ok while wrapping but when he doesnt wrap them they die off.
Re: Mr List garden BLOG - last vid tour - August 2011
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
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
Re: Mr List garden BLOG - last vid tour - August 2011
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 wrote: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.
Re: Mr List garden BLOG - last vid tour - August 2011
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.
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.
Re: Mr List garden BLOG - last vid tour - August 2011
That Hydrangea looks good.Mr List wrote: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
Are you pleased with it?
The leaves are quite different to my macrophylla.
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Re: Mr List garden BLOG - last vid tour - August 2011
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!
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!
Re: Mr List garden BLOG - last vid tour - August 2011
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
Re: Mr List garden BLOG - last vid tour - August 2011
i dunno so far. looks a bit weedy atm and your macrophylla looks very thick and lush.Adam D wrote:That Hydrangea looks good.Mr List wrote: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
Are you pleased with it?
The leaves are quite different to my macrophylla.
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.
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Re: Mr List garden BLOG - last vid tour - August 2011
Certainly filled out nicely
brug caught my eye, looks the same as mine but yours much much bigger
brug caught my eye, looks the same as mine but yours much much bigger
Re: Mr List garden BLOG - last vid tour - August 2011
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 wrote: 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.
Re: Mr List garden BLOG - last vid tour - August 2011
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
this one is about mid march 2011
this on is about late april early june 2011
this is today 19/09/11