Pushing the limits of cold hardiness..

Well, the heatwave is here. 33C before humidity yesterday, around 36-38C when you factor in the humidity. Today is supposed to be the hottest day this year so far. The plants seem to love it, especialy the cyperus, musa and passiflora:D

Heres some updated pics... to many to caption..... just ask if you have any quetions:D

Everything has just gone nuts............... Weve had more lightning and more normal precipitation ( lightning puts nitrogen into the soil and the air, instant plant fert 😈 )

1 - Calla "Mango". The flowers, definetly arent mango, but, out of 2 bulbs, I have about 8 plants now.
2 - Canna "Tropicanna Black". Growing like a weed. This thing is sick, but is no worse for the wear.
3 - Assorted morning glory ( With Chocolate, heavenly blue, and double sunset serenade), These things are about 14 feet tall, starting to trail along the army net. The leaves are 2/3 the size of my hand, and they grow an inch a day.
4 - "Mammoth Dill" - This sucker is up to my eyebrows, so its jsut under 6 feet tall.
5 - Rose "The Hunter"
6 - Daylily "Crimson Pirate". Only one flower stalk this year, but next year im lookin for it to double
7 - Random millet or grass. Its all over my yard, and is actualy a great way to shade. The birds go nuts for it, so i left it all.
8 - Morning Glory ( Moonflower, Chocolate, D sunset serenade, and heavenly blue), Phyllostacys aureosulcata alata, the bottom lef, is only 2 cherry tomato plants, which have taken up almost 20 square feet of space. The bottom right are red peppers.
9 - Cyperus "King Tut", Passiflora, Nicotania, Musa Basjoo...... one side of the one bed
10 - Wegelia, and the other side of the bed
11 - Passiflora

12 - Morning glory, Yucca, and others int he other bed
13 - Canna, daylily, you can see a small datura in the bottom left, as well as Clematis Henryi in the back....

14 - Daylily, that have naturalized here....

Looking good!

You'll have way more cannas next year the tuber eyes grow so fast underground. In the picture with your banana what is the plant that looks like papyrus?
How hardy is it?

Nice job, pretty soon you can munch on tomatoes when you walk around out there.

Bill

if you mean this pic... http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=TscQW3i

Yes its Cyperus Papyrus "king tut". They were selling them at superstore fer 7 bucks, at 3 feet tall. I bought 3 of em LOL. There only hardy to zone 8 or 9. But they may grow back in zone 7, im not 100% sure. Its a super good grower, and its even seeded ( im not sure if their viable or not). Im gonna dig up half, and try to keep it like bulbs... iin the basement.... And im gonna keep one potted up as well.

The canna are diseased. The ones that are left are the ones that are growin despite. I applied a few dosages of 10 000: 1 dose of ACA. It seemed to help. All subsequent growth obbver the last few weeks has been stonger then last, and it even appeears to have less damage. So to stop the spread, i will no longer be doing a mass canna plating. They will be spread out induvidualy. Studies have show that most canna diseases werent spread more then a few yards away. Im glad ill have more bulbs....... the tropicanna black is growing like a weed. So is the roseman coles. The puperea is goring a it sloer, its at the back , and is shaded a bit by the morning glories. I would move it, but as you can see im running out of room.

My garden isnt as organised or "pretty" as most, but im trying to let nature do most of the work. So im letting soem "weeds" do their job to amend the soil, pull up nutrients, and attracting benificial species. Each pasing day, i have to do less and less work. No new weeds are poping up, becasue they cant, they are now outcompeted by the larger shrubs and perennials.

Thanks fer look"D

and.. i just planted my Pseudosasa Japonica, and i bought a rose of sharon.... muhahahah 😈

Im home sick this week, so... heres some more pics LOL. I used a meter stick so you can gauge the size a bit better....

1 - My rufa, in all its glory
2 - same
3 - My new rose of sharon.... "Luna red"
4 - Calla "mango", are growing faster every day
5 - Datura "double queen". Sprouted about a month ago........
6 - Tropicanna Black flowers
7 - Daylily, the name has escaped me. The whole thing was supposed to be that dark purple, with the yellow inside.... fail on the nurserys behalf...
8 - Morning Glory, you can just see the meter sick, the bottom right........ their pushing 15 feet, easy......
9 - A shot of the leaf... yes thats right 7x6 inch leaves :S I had no idea they got that big
10 - Either a musa velutina, or Musella Lasiocarpa.... i moved the pots around like an idiot...
11 - Now the white square pot is supposed to be colocasia.... i think not.... and the bottom pot is supposed to be Gloriosa lily ......
12 - Rose "the hunter"
11 - Phyllostachys Aureosulcata alata. Rebounded nice after how bad it looked........ Has 13 new culms, not quite as large as the ones on it. Im waiting fer next year 😈
12 - same thing.... close up
13 - same thing
14 - Ginger
15 - Potted palms and larger view
16 - The sheltered bed
17 - more potted plants...
18 - Fargesia Scabrida, still shooting......
19 - same thing........
20 - same thing
21 - 6 foot tall dill and others

22 - the rest of that bed
23 - 4 oclocks that self seeded here....... crazy basterds...
24 - Clematis Henryii...... all of my clematis are growing like weeds now.... just waitin fer thir late summer flowers 😈
25 - Rosemand Coles Canna, about to flower
26 - Crimson pirate daylily
27 - Dragon wing begonia
28 - The musa in the sheltered bed
29 - Musa in other bed.... it getrs a bit more shade then the other one
30 - The yard rom a back veiw... you can see how weird shaped it is.......

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand my pseudosasa japonica

Just a few pics.....

I got a hibiscus labeled as " rose of sharon". By doing some research, i found out its the swamp mallow. ITs native to southern ontario, and is appreanty naturilized around here. Blooming like mad.....

random hail storm, and 100km/h winds.......I wasnt home... nothing got it to bad, the canna, banana, and the Philo hav e some ripped leaves. Ripped down one Canna. Couldve been worse

My passiflora is abou to flower, same with 2/4 clematis. My rosemancole and richard wallace canna flowered

Nice cannas! They will flower for a while now. I have some yellow ones too, I should plant a few to see if they come back, I think they will.

Bill

Whith what you over winter.... you shouldnt have a problem lol.

I jsut got my palm seeds in the mail. Tracy Nanus, Dypsis lanceolata, dypsis arenarum, Dreceana Cambidia ( sp), Agave montana, And a ficus SP.

The dypsis lanceolata are all sprouted too!!!! Gonna have to pot em up. 😈

Good deal, you should try a fig tree.

Bill