Comments on: After the storm – a lespedeza http://blog.blithewold.org/perennials/after-the-storm-lespedeza/ a garden journal about public garden maintenance, seasonal tasks, garden events, stories about gardening, volunteers, flowers, bugs and wildlife Sun, 19 May 2013 12:25:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: blithewold.org » Blog Archive » An eye on Irene http://blog.blithewold.org/perennials/after-the-storm-lespedeza/comment-page-1/#comment-12533 blithewold.org » Blog Archive » An eye on Irene Fri, 26 Aug 2011 18:53:15 +0000 http://blog.blithewold.org/?p=4051#comment-12533 [...] me) can’t help but remember last year’s hurricane-that-wasn’t: Good old Earl passed us right by and it’s tempting to think that maybe forecasters are crying wolf again with this one. But [...] [...] me) can’t help but remember last year’s hurricane-that-wasn’t: Good old Earl passed us right by and it’s tempting to think that maybe forecasters are crying wolf again with this one. But [...]

]]> By: Jean http://blog.blithewold.org/perennials/after-the-storm-lespedeza/comment-page-1/#comment-8444 Jean Wed, 15 Sep 2010 12:17:00 +0000 http://blog.blithewold.org/?p=4051#comment-8444 I have one that a loving friend gave to me. I whacked it back to the ground in spring because we had our house painted and the workmen trampled it. I since learned that you do cut it way back in spring anyway!Well, this thing took off and put out long branches towering up over my head and puddling back down along the ground and into everybody else's space. I can hear the grumbling and complaining in the garden. It was looking like a dissapointment all round, because the flowers were few, and the whole thing seemed a big gangly,awkward mess... But,... just this week, there are a million purple flowers andI am thinking I should just move it to a place all its own or learn how to prune it to keep it in some control, but I'm not giving up on it because I love plants that flower in September. <em>Jean, I'm so glad to hear that it's really blooming now! After talking to you last week, I wondered why it wasn't... And they are notoriously difficult to move once established, so if you've got a good spot for it to go to, move it while you still can! Gail moved ours from the nursery bed last spring and remembers it being very tough to get out. -kris</em> I have one that a loving friend gave to me. I whacked it back to the ground in spring because we had our house painted and the workmen trampled it. I since learned that you do cut it way back in spring anyway!Well, this thing took off and put out long branches towering up over my head and puddling back down along the ground and into everybody else’s space. I can hear the grumbling and complaining in the garden. It was looking like a dissapointment all round, because the flowers were few, and the whole thing seemed a big gangly,awkward mess… But,… just this week, there are a million purple flowers andI am thinking I should just move it to a place all its own or learn how to prune it to keep it in some control, but I’m not giving up on it because I love plants that flower in September.

Jean, I’m so glad to hear that it’s really blooming now! After talking to you last week, I wondered why it wasn’t… And they are notoriously difficult to move once established, so if you’ve got a good spot for it to go to, move it while you still can! Gail moved ours from the nursery bed last spring and remembers it being very tough to get out. -kris

]]> By: Layanee http://blog.blithewold.org/perennials/after-the-storm-lespedeza/comment-page-1/#comment-8382 Layanee Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:13:26 +0000 http://blog.blithewold.org/?p=4051#comment-8382 I don't have one....yet. I am glad to hear you weathered the storm with little to show for it except much needed rain. The gardens were glorious just the day before the rain. My eyes hurt for all the color they absorbed. Blithewold is perfection. <em>Layanee, Thank you - such kind words! But I'm sorry if your visit was painful in any way! (I know what you mean though - I wear sunglasses most of the time here...) -kris</em> I don’t have one….yet. I am glad to hear you weathered the storm with little to show for it except much needed rain. The gardens were glorious just the day before the rain. My eyes hurt for all the color they absorbed. Blithewold is perfection.

Layanee, Thank you – such kind words! But I’m sorry if your visit was painful in any way! (I know what you mean though – I wear sunglasses most of the time here…) -kris

]]> By: Susan Sims http://blog.blithewold.org/perennials/after-the-storm-lespedeza/comment-page-1/#comment-8362 Susan Sims Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:57:31 +0000 http://blog.blithewold.org/?p=4051#comment-8362 It must be so great to be surrounded by plants to the extent that you can overlook them. It's a privilege I am entirely without in my small garden. <em>Susan, It's true that it's almost overwhelming here. - My little brain can only take in so much at once. But what fun it is to discover something new that's been here all along (or in the case of the lespedeza, for a year or so.) My own garden, like yours maybe, holds few surprises. It's too small to not scrutinize all the details (but that's a pleasure and a privilege too). -kris</em> It must be so great to be surrounded by plants to the extent that you can overlook them. It’s a privilege I am entirely without in my small garden.

Susan, It’s true that it’s almost overwhelming here. – My little brain can only take in so much at once. But what fun it is to discover something new that’s been here all along (or in the case of the lespedeza, for a year or so.) My own garden, like yours maybe, holds few surprises. It’s too small to not scrutinize all the details (but that’s a pleasure and a privilege too). -kris

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