Greenhouse: Time To Haul The Plants, 3 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
Butch---
I don't know what those things are on my white azaleas--but when I shake them--
what looks like white flies go flying all over. The Hibiscus sat just 4-5 feet away.
I bet they just hiked over...It was yellowing and losing leaves kike crazy!

I have also seen my Azaleas have what I would call "soft white scale'...
mostly all over the bare stems in the fall...when I shake them, some white stuff goes flying...
Perhaps the two are connected....somehow?

I never treat the Azaleas--they are old and large and bloom so wonderfully...
They are called something...."Lake"? .
Every 3 years, I cut it all back to the nubs and by spring it grows all over again
as if nothing happened.

I would have passed on the fancy-scmancy Hibiscus at Lowes as well.
There's just too much color going on.

I also have 3 hardy Hibiscus.

The Koper King--A Tall, red Perennial one--and a tall white "Luna" one.
Both the KK and the Luna have those dinner-plate sized blooms.
The red one is smaller and, sort of, clustered.

The KK one is So big--it has now colonized the small, round bed it has been in for years.
I know it must be a Hybrid--as it never sets any seeds....BUT--this past summer, it
actually made about 6 or 7 pods of seeds, which I collected. Not sure what they
would grow out to be..???? NOT another KK!--If it did, I would be ecstatic!!!
I have NEVER had any luck propagating the KK. Tried roots...cuttings...nothing!

Unfortunately--ALL the seeds from these Hibiscus have the weevils inside the seeds...
I hate it! So many seeds are worthless with those holes in the ends...I hate to share.


Tee--heee----Butch! I also have an Acalypha! A bunch of us in the MA tried to
nurse them through last winter after I got a whole tray-full at the nursery--FREE!
He was trying to get rid of stuff...only mine made it. I had it heavily mulched with leaves
inside a small, plastic fence around it. Will do the same this winter. The roots should
be even better than last year. It's in a small bed at the front of my house. Hets some AM sun.

Just now--before I sat down--I cut off the 3 tops of branches from the Acaalypha
and stuck them in a pot to see if they will root. Did not work last winter....Trying again.

Here's the Hibiscus---

1--Kopper King
2--The tall, red one
3--Takk, white Hib.--:Luna'.