After a very chilly night, the sun is out and warming enough to do some transplanting. Except for the large pink supertunia, the others are more economical 8" pots that will be moved to larger containers.
Never had summer long success with calibrachoa, hoping that changes this year. The 3" pots of yellow were to be mixed with two pinks, and if I find them, will do so as a backup.
I don't remember if I showed the massive baskets in town last year, but I would love to know how they manage to keep the glorious condition of a dozen or more throughout the streets. This was from September!!
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The doctor was surprised that the lens had dissolved in a day, said the dryness must have been extreme for that to happen. Back in 3 months for evaluation.
Enjoy your day!
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GORGEOUS!!!
That hanging basket...in September...is incredible!
Marly, we have baskets that look like that in our downtown area. I would love to know their secret, too! I know the feeling of “”I should of bought that” all too well. But, am getting better in my old age and if I like it, I buy it!! I’m sorry the second eye procedure didn’t go so well. Enjoy your weekend! Cherie in WI
Our downtown is filled with baskets like that as well and I've watched them water them - they have a long wand they use with a truck with water. But, no deadheading, nothing and they are always amazing. I chalk it up to no wind. Here, that's a given so that's my excuse LOL. You found some beauties. ~Robin~
I wish I could find some 8" baskets. Everything around here is huge with a price tag to match. Very discouraging this year. Your plants are so pretty. I will try to start my plants next week as we will be away this weekend.
The most likely reasons for long-blooming potted flowers in general is regular consistant watering and fertilizing. If the town employees are going around with a tank-and-wand system, it's possible the water tank has been treated with bloom-boosting fertilizer. The flower garden at our town square is watered with a tank labelled "non-potable water", and when I asked about it one time, the public works employee said it was because it had been treated with fish emulsion.
Your flowers are beautiful!
Wishing mine are looking just as the one in town. In England we saw also baskets flowering beautiful and they told us,that watering everyday and fertilizing them every week will give you such explosion of flowers.
So sorry to hear that the second eye didn't go so well.
Take care,Truus from Holland
I wish I knew the secret to those baskets too. I suspect there's some serious fertilizing going on (in the water? time release?) besides the petunia variety. In towns around here, it's volunteers that take care of them, so they might be a bit more invested in taking care of them. The basket you got is very pretty, a nice change of pace from all pink.
I hope your right eye is feeling better after the lens thing dissolved like it did.
I should have said - the volunteers are more invested in caring for the flowers than the city employees would be.
My mother, the botanist, always said it is the consistency of watering and feeding that creates and maintains plants like these. Sadly, I do try but as expected, I am not the best for one reason or another. Last year we tried a new greenhouse and brought home a huge load of flowers and some vege plants. Absolutely every single plant within a week or two turned brown with little brown bugs that look like fleas but were not. Within a few weeks, everything died except for the charming little yellow snapdragons. These, interestingly, survived until a cold snap in January! I should have pulled them and taken them back but since 3 weeks had passed it was likely that they would not accept responsibility and I can't blame them I suppose.
Your petunias are always so beautiful, even the ones you bring back from the brink!
Of course, if something odd was to happen with that lens, it would happen to you!
Oh, those are amazing! Glad you got yourself some and I do hope the eyes are a bit less painful.
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