Summer Lilac
Summer Lilac
If anyone has a summer lilac (buddleia / butterfly bush), has it shown new growth yet? I think mine is dead.
0
- Killerbunny
- Poultry Guru - total zen level
- Posts: 7879
- Joined: Sat Dec 12, 2015 12:04 pm
- Location: Brockville
- x 10171
Re: Summer Lilac
I have never been able to keep one alive in this area for more than 3 years. Several of my plants including a rose, black Sambuca an a raspberry all came through the winter, started to bud and got hit by that late cold snap in April. They have not come back yet.
0
Beltsville Small White turkeys.
Mutt chickens for eggs
RIP Stephen the BSW Tom and my coffee companion.
RIP Lucky the Very Brave Splash Wyandotte rooster.
RIP little Muppet the rescue cat.
Re: Summer Lilac
This does not sound good. I have already lost a bleeding heart; good thing I bought two, but they weren't cheap.Killerbunny wrote: ↑Thu May 24, 2018 1:14 pmI have never been able to keep one alive in this area for more than 3 years. Several of my plants including a rose, black Sambuca an a raspberry all came through the winter, started to bud and got hit by that late cold snap in April. They have not come back yet.
0
- Ontario Chick
- Poultry Guru
- Posts: 5402
- Joined: Sat Dec 12, 2015 10:12 am
- Location: Carp - West Ottawa
- x 9630
Re: Summer Lilac
We seem to have had a killer winter, looks like I lost one of my Smoke trees, didn't think you could kill that and one cedar about 6 years old is yellow and crisp, didn't think there was anything unusual about this past winter, but definitely unusual number of shrubs in the neighborhood didn't make it.
1
Re: Summer Lilac
Mine is alive!!! I am delighted as I have had NO luck growing them here on two previous occasions, but I just cannot give up as I love them so much. It's so frustrating knowing that they grow like weeds in England, in cracks in the pavement and everywhere.
I also bought several orange milkweeds last year. It seems that only 2 out of 6 survived, and then there was the one in the front bed which I haven't been able to locate. That will teach me to buy things on sale at Cdn Tire! I saw a fabulous orange milkweed on a garden tour last summer, and asked the owner how he got his plant to look so bushy. He apparently chopped it down to force it to bush out :).
Linda
I also bought several orange milkweeds last year. It seems that only 2 out of 6 survived, and then there was the one in the front bed which I haven't been able to locate. That will teach me to buy things on sale at Cdn Tire! I saw a fabulous orange milkweed on a garden tour last summer, and asked the owner how he got his plant to look so bushy. He apparently chopped it down to force it to bush out :).
Linda
2
Re: Summer Lilac
I bought the orange milkweed for my mom , grows like a weed at her place. Won't grow for me.
0
Re: Summer Lilac
Both of my orange milkweeds are up - asclepias tuberosa - the perennial kind. They take their time in emerging, like hosta do. I never chop mine down. I have also started, from seed, asclepias curassavica which has red flowers and is known as Bloodflower. I got the seeds from Richter's.
1
Re: Summer Lilac
THERE IS LIFE!!!! Growing from the center of the plant. Now, if we can only have the perfect spring and summer....
1
- Killerbunny
- Poultry Guru - total zen level
- Posts: 7879
- Joined: Sat Dec 12, 2015 12:04 pm
- Location: Brockville
- x 10171
Re: Summer Lilac
Went and checked some of the ones I thought were gone and they are sprouting from the bottom, yay!
1
Beltsville Small White turkeys.
Mutt chickens for eggs
RIP Stephen the BSW Tom and my coffee companion.
RIP Lucky the Very Brave Splash Wyandotte rooster.
RIP little Muppet the rescue cat.
- Farrier1987
- Stringy Old Chicken
- Posts: 1537
- Joined: Fri Jan 15, 2016 5:46 pm
- Location: Chatham-Kent
- x 3533
Re: Summer Lilac
Summer lilac, and sumarnt.
2
Farrier1987. South of Chatham on Lake Erie. Chickens, goats, horse, garden, dog, cat. Worked all over the world. Know a little bit about a lot of things. No incubator, broody hens.