Hallson Gardens

It looks like mine in pots are running 2+ inches smaller, and using fish emulsion--what are you using? I have Olga's Golden Gate that show promise of developing a large leaf as it matures---mine i13". It's definitely gold, and is starting to corrugate nicely...... Being in pots I can have more of th...

Just want to see how my growth stacks up with more favorable locations. My hot dry summers of S. Oregon causes many of my flowering plants (roses) to go into a summer dormancy, and all energy seems to be reserved for just "stayin-alive".

Here are my largest ....

T REX 16"x12"

SUM & S 13 x 10-1/2

N. Falls 14 x 11

I have no idea....LOL...it wasn't on purpose! It just did its thing! I went out and looked and there was this HUGE pod on it (they're LOOOOONG). Then another...and another. They were all on the same plant. . I've never gotten a pod on Plantagnea (sp) but I was reading about the giant pod--like 100+...

baja220 wrote:Is this a earwig?? I found this in the soil in one of my hosta beds today.

Uh-huh.....it's two earwigs ...facing off head to head for a fight.

Not much for bee activity here, :???: seems like if I don't do it, it isn't getting done. But pods are showing up so my efforts are paying off. :D Do you know I've only seen one, maybe two bees so far? Only bumble bees, and not really many of those either. A lot of blossoms falling off, or I'm gett...

I'm going for the vasoline........one had 4 of them hidden on the scape.

No, they're going in as soon as there is the tiniest opening.

Diazanon will kill them, but they seem to be active at night.

Excuse if you've seen this post---I think it got et up. Last night at midnight, I checked the hostas I had brought into the kitchen, and found and offed eight (8) earwigs!---they had crawled up and each one had taken over their own blossom like their own hotel room that was due to open the next day....

I'd say that was perfection!

I used some frozen pollen from last year on my first seedling to bloom under lights, and it made a pod. I'm having a rough time getting pollen this year too, so I brought in my pollen parent in the kitchen, too. I think that it's earwigs that eat the pollen at night...... Does F2 mean 2nd generation...

I removed the potato part of an Iris that bloomed this season, and cut the potato part up in 4 pieces, then semi-planted the chunks somewhere else.

If those were really potato, I'd get new potatoes. Will those iris chunks sprout?

I've been doing it that way for a couple of years, and I have them fooled into thinking a cold front just passed thru, and they don't do anything. Having them at waist-level and not having to get up at O-Dark-Thirty to beat the bees is nice, and to say nothing of trying to put on a tag with a breeze...

Continuing with the "Hummer's Splash" ....this year it has rewarded me with 4 scapes, after none last year.

Here it is in the kitchen sink. Also, for the first time, it is showing signs of corregation on every leaf. It is the first time I've had a corregated streak and I'm delighted.

No, not a lot, but what I did have were hungry. This year I didn't kill them, but threw them. I am having almost no visits by honey bees, just bumbles. I had only one exquisite Monarch Butterfly come thru. I don't know what the cutworm graduate to, but until I do, I'll just toss them somewhere else....

I am waiting until blooming/pods are finished before doing any "surgery" on my breeders. But I don't know. We'll know next spring, won't we?

I want to know the name of the monster hosta at Danny's! Love those big ones.....and the lady on the bike, it looked like it was a metal sculpture. Great trip.

Thanks for all the pics and story. I know that is a lot of effort, but such a treat!!!

How many seasons should one expect before it goes stable?

thx

How long should one expect to have a hosta like Galaxy be unstable and able to give you streaked seedlings? This year I've had a couple of my streaked pod parents "find their edge". I was eyeing a $$$ Galaxy, and it looked good, but what if if next spring it decided to not streak anymore? Any experi...

I notice you're getting some nice wrinking going on there......