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Post by mickthecactus on Jan 19, 2007 16:35:03 GMT
Canarycreeper - how's yours going?
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Post by fozzie on Jan 21, 2007 19:29:13 GMT
Found mine its some 15 feet up an Oak tree in the adjacent field. Hope it can survive on aerial roots till I work out how to get the thing down!
Foz
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2007 17:04:37 GMT
It's still going strong, Mick. And this morning's garden inspection revealed any number of babies growing in the sand between patio stones, and between the patio and the brick edging. And loads in the gravel trench drain, but at least they're easy to pull out ... the ones between patio stones are a real pain because they seem to have long tap roots and when you try to pull them out they just break. Gggggrrrr. ... cheers ...
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Post by mickthecactus on Jan 25, 2007 17:24:43 GMT
Dutchy and Rosefriend - are you listening?
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Post by Rosefriend on Jan 26, 2007 13:35:26 GMT
Yes Mick I am - babies everywhere - I never ever get one.
However mine are still alive - I think - and are covered is a warming layer of snow at the moment.
RF
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Post by Dutchy on Jan 26, 2007 13:45:18 GMT
Baby buddleia, they grow in gardencenters don't they? ;D Never saw one flying, it must have been quite a sight. Is that why its flowers are slightly rocket shaped?  Anyhow mine in pot still has leaves but drooping. It seems to have survived the frost. Weard. No snow here, none what so ever. It has to deal with drizzle once more. |
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Post by Dutchy on Jan 30, 2007 19:35:16 GMT
Jan 30th. The buddleia still has its leaves on.
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Post by Rosefriend on Jan 30, 2007 19:37:53 GMT
Hi Dutchy
After the short frost and snow, and the fact that you looked at them, mine are still alive, although they look a little sad....
Rosefriend
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Post by Dutchy on Jan 30, 2007 19:46:12 GMT
Do you think my ...Look at... has reversed somehow?
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Post by Rosefriend on Jan 31, 2007 9:44:22 GMT
I don't know Dutchy, but something is obviously happening if yours and mine are still alive.
Mind you we're not out of the woods yet - we still have February to get through first.
Rosefriend
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Post by sweetleaf on Jan 31, 2007 9:58:19 GMT
New buds are breaking on mine, only a week or so after losing most of the leaves in the wind  |
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Post by Dutchy on Feb 1, 2007 18:35:16 GMT
OMG these plants get funnier by the day.
Is it in a sheltered warm space of the garden?
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Post by sweetleaf on Feb 1, 2007 18:48:52 GMT
No its out in the most exposed area, and we live on the side of a hill! Its invasive and I may have to dig some out ......  |
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Post by Rosefriend on Feb 1, 2007 18:51:00 GMT
Dig some out - did you hear that Dutchy. Ours are alive - just - and sweetleaf is throwing bits of her's away. Pity we don't live nearer each other - we could beg some of the bits she is binning.
RF
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Post by Dutchy on Feb 1, 2007 18:53:34 GMT
I am afraid it would die But you can try, I promise I won't look  |
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Post by sweetleaf on Feb 1, 2007 19:14:57 GMT
I could probably spare you some.....it wants to be a hedge.  Always covered in butterflies and bees though, when its flowering ;D. |
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Post by Dutchy on Feb 1, 2007 19:22:49 GMT
Ooh a buddleia with pretentions.
My butterflies make do with the Verbena Bonariensis that grows everywhere where I have gravel paths.
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Post by sweetleaf on Feb 1, 2007 19:27:48 GMT
Ive bought seeds for that this year, maybe things will be more even if it wont grow for me.  |
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Post by Dutchy on Feb 1, 2007 19:52:42 GMT
No I would not want you to miss out on the Verbena.
It is a lovely airy plant that gives such good hight and almost everlasting colour
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Post by sweetleaf on Feb 1, 2007 20:04:34 GMT
I am itching to start sowing, not long now.  |
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Post by Dutchy on Feb 7, 2007 8:25:34 GMT
Still over a month to go though Had a look at my buddleia again ( I know I should not .. ) It defenitely droops with the frost biting it. However the leaves are still on there. It looks quite pretty with the flowering bulb iris at its feet. Purple blue flowers with silver drooping leaves above. |
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Post by Rosefriend on Feb 7, 2007 9:52:05 GMT
I always assumed, and I do not know why, that Buddleia would be annoyed if I started planting something at their feet.
However perhaps it is an idea - as long as it isn't something that takes too much water. At least it would look better than it does now.
RF
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Post by Dutchy on Feb 7, 2007 17:42:12 GMT
Bulbs that do not grow too high are always an easy under planting. I see the bulbs as big stones ie better drainage and the flowers and leaves will be gone by the time the buddlea begins its show.
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Post by oldmoleskins on Feb 19, 2007 17:45:19 GMT
well, here's one I found today, while clearing the ivy from the top of a wall... from the ground it's just like an extension of the parent plant below and I hadn't given it a second look...  So, do I go for the Dutchy/Rosefriend 'look' to kill it or hot vinegar... OM. |
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Post by Rosefriend on Feb 19, 2007 17:58:36 GMT
Oh blimey - sprouts out of a wall and still looks better than mine.....
I don't think that the joint looks of Dutchy and myself will kill that. I would do hot vinegar and the meanest weedkiller that you can buy.
The one of the left though had some pretty marvellous blooms last year by the look of it, and I bet you didn't cut it back last Spring either did you OM?
Mmmmmmh I do get the feeling that Buddleia's don't like me......
RF
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Post by oldmoleskins on Feb 19, 2007 18:14:11 GMT
What I had in mind for a killer 'look' was: Sorry Rosefriend. Short of a miracle they appear doomed. I have looked at them and ( so have you) and then there is this bit about you living in an area with land climate. It is a one in a million chance... and no, the parent got no attention last Spring - it wasn't 'discovered' in time - but that area has been opened up a bit in the past year, and it'll be interesting to see whether it's worth keeping... I'll give it a bit of a prune soonish... if I remember... OM. |
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Post by roxann57 on Feb 19, 2007 20:50:45 GMT
I chopped the 2 I have back to approx waist level, there were lots of new shoots on all the branches. I'm going to use them for peas sticks (thanks 4P) and hope that they won't start sprouting on the lottie |
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Post by Chuckles on Feb 19, 2007 21:00:57 GMT
Poor RF and Dutchy If it's any concelation mine don't seed everywhere but the other day I did find a 3" youngster growing in one of the small pots that has young Primula plants in it I've seen them growing from guttering before ;D |
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Post by Spruance on Feb 19, 2007 22:31:50 GMT
I'm going to use them for peas sticks (thanks 4P) and hope that they won't start sprouting on the lottie I always save my Buddleia prunings to use around the garden Roxann. The best way I find to prevent them sprouting is to dry them out first in the shed or GH. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2007 15:21:09 GMT
Hi OM ... your monster is obviously a close relative of mine. Ggggrrr. The worst thing with the ones growing out of walls is that they scatter their seeds everywhere, and they thrive in the unlikeliest places (found some the other day under a climbing rose, right up against the base) .... they're out for world domination, like Triffids ... cheers ...
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