tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450926564221225084.post7028267655687941732..comments2024-03-27T01:11:59.600-04:00Comments on Children of the Corm: A Charleston Garden Blog: Coneflowers In The HeatJesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01524574998937986323noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450926564221225084.post-61511995259085347322011-06-15T22:01:00.969-04:002011-06-15T22:01:00.969-04:00I miss the coneflowers. I had some years ago and t...I miss the coneflowers. I had some years ago and they finally died out.Phillip Oliverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01546160918395373740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450926564221225084.post-87420047052839274152011-06-06T23:25:31.324-04:002011-06-06T23:25:31.324-04:00Ugh...so sorry to hear about your miserable weathe...Ugh...so sorry to hear about your miserable weather. I used to live in Nebraska and our entire summer from Memorial Day until Labor Day was 98° and 95% humidity...pure torture. Your Echinacea look great, at least! I'll have to give Kim's Knee-High a try...I was afraid they'd be too short, but that sounds like a decent height...and I love the reflexed petals! I have Prairie Splendour and it's a beauty and so easy-going...haven't had it re-seed yet (unlike Magnus, which seeds everywhere...not that I'm complaining).scottweberpdxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08740930947767329183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450926564221225084.post-34176261172011197062011-06-05T08:16:30.178-04:002011-06-05T08:16:30.178-04:00My purple coneflowers are all over the place, I lo...My purple coneflowers are all over the place, I love them when they bloom. I read your post on my blog about going to your Adirondack cabin - I'm jealous! We camp there quite a bit in the State campgrounds.Bonniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12398703193664856227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450926564221225084.post-36542083970014783892011-06-04T00:11:57.773-04:002011-06-04T00:11:57.773-04:00Due to the wet ness of my garden I have a slug pro...Due to the wet ness of my garden I have a slug problem even in summer so I do get the same damage up N...Merlot is one of my favs as well...Donnahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13420133886162844400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450926564221225084.post-46901258442796881762011-06-03T18:06:50.018-04:002011-06-03T18:06:50.018-04:00Wonderful post. I certainly have my best luck with...Wonderful post. I certainly have my best luck with the species, but also have had great luck with Kim's Knee High. Your garden is looking great.compost in my shoehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06572258657523962702noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450926564221225084.post-43940064008975447682011-06-03T14:25:36.174-04:002011-06-03T14:25:36.174-04:00Echinaceas are one of my top three perennials that...Echinaceas are one of my top three perennials that I recommend to everyone. I have many different cultivars as well as the species, and they're all just amazing.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12107236871193698777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450926564221225084.post-42836260294481871902011-06-03T13:06:51.672-04:002011-06-03T13:06:51.672-04:00Jess -
I related to the "just hang on to li...Jess - <br /><br />I related to the "just hang on to life until September." So true!! I've wanted to try coneflowers. Do you start them from seed?Wicked Gardenerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01540250068640733537noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450926564221225084.post-42840260570296471142011-06-03T12:30:47.493-04:002011-06-03T12:30:47.493-04:00Coneflower are just beginning to bloom here in Sou...Coneflower are just beginning to bloom here in Southern Kansas. Have three varieties, Magnus, common pupurea, and white. Just planted Prairie Splendor and Pow Wow Berry (which looks like a standard purpurea right now). Always a perennial here.greggohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10490422976382424491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450926564221225084.post-16148608819326814032011-06-03T10:34:26.353-04:002011-06-03T10:34:26.353-04:00Summer is DEFINITELY here in the South. It's g...Summer is DEFINITELY here in the South. It's getting close to the point where I give up on weeding because it's just too damn hot. Oh well, at least my garden may fill in a little that way...:PKynahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13222304237028745181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450926564221225084.post-78673834747302678742011-06-03T09:19:05.763-04:002011-06-03T09:19:05.763-04:00Daricia and Catmint: I've tried the beer, with...Daricia and Catmint: I've tried the beer, with some success, but I still have a lot of snails. I think the snails don't care if it rains as long as its intensely humid out there (which it is 100% of the time), they do just fine. Plus when it doesn't rain I have to water my garden quite a bit because of the killer sun. <br /><br />I do find it fascinating how some easy as pie to grow flowers such as coneflower just won't grow some places. Judging by the fact that I've grown them in zone 6 and zone 9 (so its not temperature), I'm guessing its either the air humidity or soil that must do them in in some places. They do seem to thrive in humidity with well draining soil, which I've had at both sites.Jesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01524574998937986323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450926564221225084.post-82288920242858832702011-06-03T08:51:46.536-04:002011-06-03T08:51:46.536-04:00Hi Jess, congrat on acquiring a baby coneflower. L...Hi Jess, congrat on acquiring a baby coneflower. Lovely flowers, they won't grow for me, I've tried. I'm surprised you have so many snails given it's so hot and hasn't rained lately. Do you know about the beer solution to snails? Leave out a saucer of beer at night and in the morning it will be full of dead snails with smiles on their faces.Sue Catminthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14242341696447975933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450926564221225084.post-77377625987844599162011-06-02T15:14:10.639-04:002011-06-02T15:14:10.639-04:00it took me a while to warm up to coneflowers, but ...it took me a while to warm up to coneflowers, but now they are one of my favorites. i like that they take drought so well. my kim's knee high really is knee high, but it could be deer keeping it that way! they nibble all my coneflowers with regularity, but by midsummer they are big enough to bloom pretty well in spite of it. yours are beautiful.Dariciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03139602899939762309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450926564221225084.post-80004021194515680622011-06-02T13:22:37.779-04:002011-06-02T13:22:37.779-04:00GWGT: they are probably just really tiny right now...GWGT: they are probably just really tiny right now waiting to get you in a few weeks. I was up at my cabin (adirondacks) last week and it was definitely on the rainy every day side!<br /><br />NellJean: Oh I am so trying this! Thanks for the tip<br /><br />IG: I'm sure you could eat them, they just wouldn't taste good. My mom always plants some flowers among the veggies... just livens things up. <br /><br />Clare: The Merlots are my favorite too..its hard to see from this photo but the blossoms are very large... they do get tall though, mine are about 40 inches at the moment...<br /><br />Masha: I'm reading a book set in Montreal right now to try and cool myself down. Its literally a sauna outside. So miserable. Its amazing... how you can get too much of a good thing, pretty darn fast<br /><br />HollyGarden: I'm biased... I love the pink ones...though if I find a white swan this year in the nursery I'm going to buy it.<br /><br />Grace: This is called selective photography, the only kind of photography I'm a master at :) The other merlot plant is a special needs coneflower.Jesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01524574998937986323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450926564221225084.post-20204119793188364812011-06-01T22:33:17.478-04:002011-06-01T22:33:17.478-04:00Hi Jess, Thank you for finding me! I am slowly try...Hi Jess, Thank you for finding me! I am slowly trying to recover from my losses. I've got you back on my blog roll too, although I don't have it [the blog roll] posted on my blog yet. <br /><br />Love your Echinaceas. Sorry about the slugs. They really can wreak havoc, can't they? You'd never know it by looking at your photos, though. Just gorgeous!GRACE PETERSONhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04520343332670354262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450926564221225084.post-62834396997616096492011-06-01T19:16:15.162-04:002011-06-01T19:16:15.162-04:00I have yellow ones and white ones, but your pink o...I have yellow ones and white ones, but your pink ones are beautiful! You've just sold me on getting some pink ones! Except, like you, sometimes I weed the babies!HolleyGardenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14892421871044249940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450926564221225084.post-34187953722538588082011-06-01T16:34:49.592-04:002011-06-01T16:34:49.592-04:00The Merlots are sumptuous!
BertieThe Merlots are sumptuous!<br /><br />BertieBertie Bainbridgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13481499819811821263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450926564221225084.post-16095606372281337762011-06-01T15:35:52.860-04:002011-06-01T15:35:52.860-04:00These flowers are so charming, I am glad they do w...These flowers are so charming, I am glad they do well for you. Our weather is still cool and rainy - 60s if we are lucky.... :(Mashahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15996950576326655813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450926564221225084.post-55265074496103035062011-06-01T14:07:00.823-04:002011-06-01T14:07:00.823-04:00I really should try Echinacea again. They seemed ...I really should try Echinacea again. They seemed to resent the excessive heat in our previous garden, but I know they make good habitat plants, and I love the look of Merlot with its less reflexed petals. Not to mention, anything that blooms for that long during summer would be a definite boon here!Curbstone Valley Farmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06714297348566721344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450926564221225084.post-36511466846053869882011-06-01T13:17:28.268-04:002011-06-01T13:17:28.268-04:00I must say that as a flower-hater - okay, I don...I must say that as a flower-hater - okay, I don't really hate them, but you can't eat the buggers - coneflowers are the only ones I look at and think 'maybe'.The Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18345021580985320660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450926564221225084.post-63376347592588148782011-06-01T12:41:04.241-04:002011-06-01T12:41:04.241-04:00Put out grapefruit hulls with the cut side down. P...Put out grapefruit hulls with the cut side down. Pick up the next morning full of slugs, and destroy.<br /><br />Echinacea purpura is perennial in my hot, humid garden. Maybe they were talking about the hybrids which many people find difficult to keep over.Jean Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09000315400392984647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450926564221225084.post-76274690252450300772011-06-01T12:00:12.477-04:002011-06-01T12:00:12.477-04:00With all the rain we have been getting, I am surpr...With all the rain we have been getting, I am surprised there are not the numbers of slugs to match. When my coneflower blooms, it is always in the dead heat of the summer so slugs are absent. Yours look so much more refreshed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com