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19 Sep 2009Phlox Bright Eyes Blooming But Yet To Be Planted 1 1 Plantaholic's Place gardenCloudy 8°C / 46°F
The local nurseries are putting on sales trying to find new homes for the last of their stock – and this is one of the Hubby’s finds. He adores perennial phlox – and continues to bring home new ones assuming I can find a new spot for them. The gardens are getting pretty full &...
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19 Sep 2009Datura Discolor Flowering and Dying Front Yard garden and Datura Discolor BloomingCloudy 8°C / 46°F
This is my first year growing this variety of datura and it is the most sensitive to temperature I’ve ever grown. I’ve been able to see a few blooms from it, but then we had a few cold nights and it has completely drooped and won’t recover. I’m keeping it in the garden i...
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19 Sep 2009Datura Ballerina Yellow Flowering Datura Ballerina Yellow Blooming and Front Yard gardenCloudy 8°C / 46°F
It has been a much cooler than normal season for us here – and the daturas are really behind this year – especially the doubles. This pretty datura has just started to bloom for me this year – and I am worried I won’t get fresh seed from them before frost hits. Photos ar...
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19 Sep 2009Dahlia Color Spectacle Blooming (Finally!!) 1 Dahlia Cactus Color Spectacle Blooming and Bulb Starting gardenCloudy 8°C / 46°F
I had almost lost hope for this dahlia blooming this year – but finally it has decided to show it’s pretty face. They had this labelled as a “cactus” dahlia, but it is definately a dinnerplate.
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19 Sep 2009Agastache Heather Queen Blooming Agastache Heather Queen Blooming and Plantaholic's Place gardenCloudy 8°C / 46°F
This adorable agastache has finally started to bloom. Started from seed this year – winter sown, it is a great addition to the butterfly theme.
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19 Sep 2009Peruvian Daffodil Blooming 2 2 Peruvian Daffodil Blooming and Plantaholic's Place gardenCloudy 8°C / 46°F
Last year the Hubby found these bulbs at Home Depot – they bloomed beautifully and he adored them. When frost was expected, we dug them, dried them, but I forgot them in the greenhouse and they froze – rotting the bulbs. This year they were not available locally – so I was ple...
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02 Sep 2009I love Snails!! Snail Vine Blooming 1 4 Vigna Caracalla Blooming and Plantaholic's Place gardenSunny 11°C / 52°F
Now this is what I wait all season for. This snail vine was super hard to find seed for when I first discovered it in ‘06. All the online seed sources were sold out – and being in Canada, I couldn’t trade a cutting with anyone – and no one here had heard of such a thing....
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02 Sep 2009Got a Toothache? 1 Toothache Plant-Spilanthes oleracea Blooming and Plantaholic's Place gardenSunny 11°C / 52°F
The toothache plant is blooming and WOW – we found out how it got it’s nickname! We all plucked a bloom from the plant and chewed on it. It started off tasting like cucumber….quite pleasant…then suddenly your mouth starts to tingle. With in a minute, your entire mouth i...
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02 Sep 2009Sedum Autumn Joy Blushing 3 Daylily gardenSunny 11°C / 52°F
This will be the final year for this sedum unless I can sucessfully divide it. It is large and tall, falling over when we get heavy rains and doesn’t recover well resulting in a giant circle of sedum spanning 4 feet in the daylily garden. Just starting to blush, won’t be long before...
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02 Sep 2009Ornamental Pepper Black Pearl Fruiting 2 5 Ornamental Pepper Black Pearl Setting Fruit and Plantaholic's Place gardenSunny 11°C / 52°F
Well, a little disappointed with the size of this one – but I have to take the blame for it. Lack of fertilizing has resulted in small plants, but still eye catching in their container.
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