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FLOWERS FROM THE CONTAINER GARDEN

06 Tuesday Jun 2017

Posted by hbs1991 in ADOBE PHOTOSHOP AND LIGHTROOM, CLOSE UP FLOWER PHOTOGRAPHY, Container Gardening, Elkton VA,, EXPERIMENTING WITH TECHNIQUES, Extension Tubes, MACRO PHOTOGRAPHY,, Nature Observations, PHOTOGRAPHY, POST PROCESSING, Shooting in RAW, Spring/Summer

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CLOSE UP PHOTOGRAPHY, Flowers from the Container Garden, Gerbera Daisy, Heritage Basket Studio, Japanese Painted Fern, Lantana, Lobelia, Portulacca, Rex Begonia, Sweet Alysum, Wasp

Deck Flowers June 2017 (1 of 21)This year we have had so many cloudy and rainy days, some flowers like the geraniums, which should be ramping up into constant bloom, due to warmer night temperatures in the upper 60’s and 70’s are just sitting idle, once in a while putting out a single bloom here and there.  So many cloudy/rainy days, the plants themselves are doing fine, but very few blossoms.

Deck Flowers June 2017 (3 of 21)  Deck Flowers June 2017 (9 of 22)

Deck Flowers June 2017 (12 of 21)There are some which seem uneffected by the weather, the white sweet allysum, blue lobelia, gerbera daisies, and salvia gargantua. While portulacca loves sun and heat and only blooms on days which are very bright or sunny, seems to be doing fine. The Rex begonia and Japanese Painted fern, seems to revel in the cooler cloudy weather, though I do miss the masses of geranium blossoms.

Deck Flowers June 2017 (4 of 21)  Deck Flowers June 2017 (16 of 22)

Deck Flowers June 2017 (7 of 21)The three varieties of elephant ears and caladiums seem to like this weather as well. Sunday was just a leisurely day with the camera and tripod out, seeing what I could get from the flowers on the deck.

Deck Flowers June 2017 (19 of 22)At first I thought this little wasp, was being a huge annoyance, however it ended up trying to tell me that he wanted to be included in with the flower photography that day, as soon as I aimed the camera on the railling he landed and held really still for me to put on the extension tubes and lens and sat there very patiently and let me take its picture, then he flew away.

Below are yellow Gerbera Daisy & yellow Lantana

Deck Flowers June 2017 (14 of 21)  Deck Flowers June 2017 (10 of 21)

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CONTAINER GARDENING TRANSFORMATIONS

14 Sunday May 2017

Posted by hbs1991 in Container Gardening, Dripping Springs Ollas, Ollas Water Conservation System

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Balcony Gardens, Container Gardening Transformations, Crystal Palace Blue Lobelia, Geraniums, Greenhouse Soiless Mix, Heritage Basket Studio, Lantana, Miracle Gro Organic Choice potting soil, Organic Soil, Salvia Gargantua, Salvia Guarganitica, Sweet Alysum

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Container Gardening (9 of 11)Due to the recent rains, my transformation of the container garden, on my balcony is taking longer than I had wanted, however you cannot circumvent mother nature. I have been successful in changing out the old soil in 2/3rds of the containers. Now that nicer weather is here, I sould be able to get the rest done on Tuesday.

You could not ask for better weather to not stress out the plants, all of which look great.  The only one that does not will be the Gerbera Daisies. Which has a built in defense mechanism, which protects it from excessive moisture loss. If you have ever had these you will know despite how much water you give them (over watering can kill them). They will wilt in the sun, it looks like they are dying, they are NOT!, as soon as the sun moves away from them they will stand straight up.

Container Gardening (7 of 11)  Container Gardening (10 of 11)

There are 3 different Geraniums in each contain, along with Crystal Palace Blue Lobelia, and Carpet of Snow White Sweet Alysum. The corner containter, which as the terra cotta Olla in th center of it, has a bright Red/Orange and a bright yellow Gerbera Daisy in it, along with a pink Lantana, and Black and Blue Salvia Gargantua, in front is Sweet Alysum and Blue Lobelia.

The Olla I cannot say enough for over the past 4 years. It has been amazing in the container, all plants are kept well and steadly watered even thought the hottest weater. When I went to remove the soil around the Olla, The root system was a solid mass from the past 2 years of growth, I had to remove ALL the dirt and roots from the container to the bottom. One day I would love to try an Olla in the open ground of a garden.

You can read more about the Olla in this blog post from April 2015

THE AMAZING OLLA WATERING SYTSTEM!

Learn even more from the site:

Dripping Spring Ollas

Container Gardening (1 of 11)

Container Gardening (3 of 11)  Container Gardening (2 of 11)

Here is the soil & soiless mix I am using the containers this year. It looks like it will require a second bale of greenhouse mix. I mixed the soil mix.

2 parts greenhouse mix –to- 2 parts Miracle Gro & 1 part Organic Planting Soil, so far the plant seemed to love the mixture.

CONTAINER GARDENING 2016

16 Thursday Jun 2016

Posted by hbs1991 in container gardening, Gardening, PLANT, Water Conservation Methods

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Cardinal Flower Vines, CONTAINER GARDENING 2016, Dragon Wing Begoniass, Geraniums, Heritage Basket Studio, Lantana, Oila, Passion Flower Vine, Petunia's, Salvia Guarganitica, Supertunia's, Verbena, Watering

 

FLowers of the Balcony

Passion Flower 1  Passion Flower 2

Only in the past two years have I been able to grow the Passiflora “Passion Flower Vine” offered as containter grown plants at my favorite Mennonite Greenhouses, Evergrowing Greenhouses – Steve and Stella Showalter & Family

Over the past 21 years I have become somewhat proficient in container gardening, as I have lived in apartments that if i wanted beautiful gardens, the only way was in containers.

In Bridgewater I was able to have more containers, even though the apartments I lived in, both are south facing, in Bridgewater it was due south, without any obstructions, blocking the sunlight. In Elkton there are some trees and the orientation here is more southeast. There is just a bit of difference in the way the sun strikes the containers and the length of day for them. It is enough to say that they all get 6 hours or more of sun and that is considered full sun.

Below, is the new additon this year garden, it is Lantana, a very tough everblooming plant, the lantan are planted aternately with the Supertunia’s which should cascade through the balcony railings as well.

 

Below are the Supertunia’s that will cascade over the balcony railings

 

The key with container gardening that most people do not think about is they usually pick containers that are way too small for the quantities of plants they plant. The root systems of plants grow large and require more space to grow and sustain themeselves during the hottest months of the year, July and August.

Red Dragon Wing Begonia (1 of 1)  Bronze Begonia (1 of 1)

During the hottest months containers if they are too small, need to be watered sometimes twice a day, morning and evening. If the container is large, there is much more room for the root systems, as well as it takes much more to really dry out a container. I chose deep plastic totes, which I drilled holes in the bottom and used the lids as saucers under the totes. This helps so much in water retention, that your containers even during brutally hot days can go a day without water. Thorough watering is essential, I have witnessed people watering containers that I know the water penetrates a 1/2 to 2 inches, this only causes roots to grow near the surface and makes them even more suseptible to rapid dehydration. You will find thorough watering in larger containers requires much less watering than scant watering in shallow containers.

Oila Container (1 of 1)  Geraniums (1 of 1)

 

Every year I always plant geraniums as they are heat proof, drought tolerant (to a point) and reward you with constant blooms throughout the growing season til cutting frost. I always try to plant something new each year. as well. Just so that it does not become the same redundant thing every year.

Two years ago I wanted to try to have something cascading fromt the top railing, however as nice as these metal clamp on baskets tend to look, they are impracticle as they only are about 6 inches wide and as deep, with coco fiber lining which does not hold water as well as I would like, the newer ones actually come with a water retaining liner for the bottoms of the coco fiber liners. I had tried verbena last year (hence this years volunteers) they did resonably well, but they do require a bit of deadheading. This year I picked up a pack of six Portulacca plants and they seem to love their new environment!

Excuse the pictures of the Portulacca, they are not as nice as I would have liked, the pictures are more to show the container they are in than the flowers in this post.

Orange Portulacca 2 (1 of 1)  Portulacca in Wire Baskets (1 of 1)

I was rewarded this year with two deep hot pink Verbena that came from seed from last year, total volunteers, as well as a volunteer pale lavender petunia (apparently a gift from a visiting bird) I have 10 geraniums all different colors, as well as 3 Salvia Guaranitica “Black & Blue” Planted around the Oila where they will get a constant supply of water. (Hummingbirds Love Them)!

  

This year the new plantings are a Red Dragon Wing Begonia, Bronze Begonia, Lantana “Flame”, Supertunia “Red” & Supertunia “Limoncello”, Supertunias are billed to be an improve ment over “Wave” petunias, in that Waves tend to die out in the center until seasons end, and Supertunia are to stay growing in billowing mounds, hopefully this is the case as they are planted to billow out throught the deck railings and cascade over the edge!

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