Garden journal: hippeastrum maintenance
May. 11th, 2013 12:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lblanchardYesterday and today have been days of hippeastrum maintenance. After a winter and early spring of low light, my species hippeastrum were flopping all over the place, their foliage lanky and weak. H. 'mandoni' has especially flopsy leaves -- a yard long and ribbon-like. My 'mandoni' were also purchased as juveniles and put into 16 oz solo cups, which they'd outgrown a few months ago. So -- a fine big new pot for both 'mandoni' and some serious staking. I also staked up the class of 2011 ('papilio' x emerald'). Downstairs, where the Class of 2011 is in repose by the living room window, I cut stakes but haven't made the cat's cradle of twine to hold them together. Later today. Today I also staked up my two 'papilio.'
All this is in preparation for moving everybody outdoors, probably next week.
The class of 2006 has short, stubby, sturdy foliage. It will eventually need staking but not yet. The class of 2009 has stakes in place but needs new twine.
Speaking of the class of 2009, here's the delightful out-of-season bloomer, snapped this morning:
Class of 2009, Hippeastrum 'supermarket' (Trader Joe x PathMark or
ProbablyFairyTale x ProbablyAppleBlossom, depending on how you'd like to think of them)
Today's weather is threatening, followed by rain, a good time to set out some transplants, so I set out several rooted coleus cuttings. I paused to admire my fat peony buds. I'm keeping my fingers crossed they don't rot from damp weather again this year, the way they did last year. That was very disappointing.
The wisteria seedling crumpled and turned pale brown yesterday. I threw it away. The Franklinia looks exactly as it has for three days.
All this is in preparation for moving everybody outdoors, probably next week.
The class of 2006 has short, stubby, sturdy foliage. It will eventually need staking but not yet. The class of 2009 has stakes in place but needs new twine.
Speaking of the class of 2009, here's the delightful out-of-season bloomer, snapped this morning:
Class of 2009, Hippeastrum 'supermarket' (Trader Joe x PathMark or
ProbablyFairyTale x ProbablyAppleBlossom, depending on how you'd like to think of them)
Today's weather is threatening, followed by rain, a good time to set out some transplants, so I set out several rooted coleus cuttings. I paused to admire my fat peony buds. I'm keeping my fingers crossed they don't rot from damp weather again this year, the way they did last year. That was very disappointing.
The wisteria seedling crumpled and turned pale brown yesterday. I threw it away. The Franklinia looks exactly as it has for three days.
