Patience sometimes required
I thought this dwarf crape myrtle would never bloom! It was planted three years ago and the foliage has been absolutely beautiful but nary a bloom in sight. A friend told me that I should talk to my plants. "You don't believe it but it works," he said. One day I was weeding around it and I happened to remember what he said so I whispered to it "If you don't bloom this year, you are outta here". Good heavens, it worked!
I took a full shot of it but my garden is so weedy that I'm embarrassed to show it. This is the first dwarf variety I've grown and I really like them (that is, now that it intends to bloom). It is only about 18 inches tall and about 24 inches wide. The variety is "Pocomoke".
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I've been waiting for more than 10 years for a climbing hydrangea to bloom. At this point it might as well be English ivy, and it will get the same fate in the next year or two if it doesn't produce some flowers.
I really like those dwarfs too, yours is really pretty. Unfortunately, our room is becoming very limited. So I don't know where we would put them. :-(--Randy
PS- Was it a Jamie that told you to talk to them? LOL
I'm imagining you out in the garden having long conversations with the blooming plants;)
Marnie
Les, I love that idea. That is very funny.
C.C., I have tried to grow cl. hydrangea at least three times and I've never had luck with it. It always dies on me.
Lisa, I should probably tell it thank you.
S.A., that is a good idea because you would have spots of color when the azaleas are not blooming.
Randy, it was indeed Jamie!
Marnie, trust me, I don't have long conversations with the plants.
Failing that you could write a stinking letter