Tangled Branches: Cultivated
happenings in and around my zone 6b gardens in northern Virginia and in central Virginia
Friday, December 18, 2009
Garden Bloggers' Bud Day
Taking advantage of the lull before the storm, I'm here to report that I had no flowers in bloom for Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day earlier this week.
But there are buds.
This is one of 3 such buds on a Camellia japonica, newly planted this spring. I cannot believe that I lost the label already. Its neighbors, with no buds, still have intact labels. Why?
I hope those buds survive to make flowers for a future GBBD, but today it sure feels like we're in for a long cold winter. I'm a novice camellia-grower, but I think the japonicas are less hardy than the sasanquas? But that one is still a very tiny plant, probably less than 12 inches tall, and if we get the foot of snow that's predicted it will be totally covered up and well-insulated. (I first typed insulted instead of insulated; hmmm.....)
4 Comments:
I have done the same thing, lost the tag to one of my new camellias. Yours looks pretty happy!
Randy: Isn't it amazing how those labels disappear? I've been blaming the squirrels for years.
That particular camellia is planted on the site of a former compost pile - it's about the happiest one of the lot.
I used to blame the squirrels but now suspect the bluejays of stealing tags, Entangled.
Hope your camellia does okay - the bloom time for my japonica seemed to change after it was in the ground for a few years, with the established plant buds still tight and looking okay. The new one came with buds already expanded so our freeze really zapped them.
Annie at the Transplantable Rose
Annie: Well, it couldn't possibly be my fault that the label is nowhere to be seen. ;-)
I was just out this morning doing a little light garden clean-up, and the C. japonica still has all 3 buds and they do appear larger than in the photo here. So....fingers crossed. I thought our winters might be just a bit too cold for them.
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