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🌱Gardening & Botanical insights from Award-Winning Horticulturist, Hybridist, Author, Designer & Consultant Robert F. Gabella.
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🌱 You're very welcome. Wasn't sure I could find it again, but here's a study that mentions Zinnia [violacea] elegans & Cosmos bipinnatus among other allelopathic members of the Asteraceae.😎
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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🌱Very interesting. Like juglone an allelopath secreted from Juglans nigra (Black Walnut), may be compatible plant families or genera. Lots more info online. Helianthus relatives also proven to be allelopathic include Zinnia violacea (syn. Z. elegans) & Cosmos bipinnatus.
www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12...
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🌱Lovely! I have a few different cvs in that extra special and addictive sunrise-sunset color family.🌞 And yes, they're all bursting back into bud and bloom!😃 Chalk it up to like photoperiods & reponse triggers on either side of the Winter Solstice. #Science 😎
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🌱Though beloved, Helianthus annuus (Sunflowers) are strongly allelopathic, can even cause crop failures of certain plants (Tomatoes, etc.) followed in same space. Much research into potential of herbicidal components. First time I've heard reference to building soil nutrients - please tell us more!🌻
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🌱Same here - the young emerging shoots in Spring, before leaves fully expand. Though now many at least in Chicagoland are full of virus - PMV - not sure if any impact for eating or not.
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🌱 Nice - though not 100% certain, could be Phytolacca americana (Pokeweed/Poke/Polk). Not native to Puerto Rico but present & potentially invasive. Has also spread N & W from the S & E US nativity to N Illinois & beyond - where it can become a nuisance. Pic 3 infected w/Pokeweed Mosaic Virus (PMV).
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🌱 Very exciting - just started Onions the other day!
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💕🌱Beautiful - too bad there's no smell-o-vision. Rather than Ribes sanguineum (Flowering Currant), appears to be a healthy planting of Daphne odora 'Aureomarginata' (Variegated Fragrant Daphne). Wish we could grow it here in Chicagoland - won't survive our Winters.🥶
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🌱Yes, Plant Antifreeze Proteins ARE fascinating. Narcissus of southerly origin (N. bulbocodium, N. tazetta, etc.) that make foliage & flowers in Fall or Winter have less need. Can squeak through a mild snow-covered Chicagoland Winter, but if bitter & dry they're toast. Tazetta in pic Spring planted.
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🌱Hello All at #GardensHour. Winter not my favorite, but is a time to prepare. First the unglamorous - STICKY TRAPS EVERYWHERE!😅 Schlumbergera x buckleyi 'Ascot' says, "Did you have to catch me looking like this?"😄 Plus longer days = new growth, fresh herbs, & time for a seed inventory!🌱
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🌱Very exciting, Athena - the catalogs from Hudson are keepsakes, you will come back to them again and again.😎
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🙏🌱 Thanks kindly, and glad you're inspired by the photos! I've purchased from a few different online sources as well as retail. If you're in the US, try Whitton Greenhouses - a one-stop shop for all things Schlumbergera.😃
Whitton Greenhouses, Holiday Cactus search.app/LsSmgaWJnewL...
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🌱Interesting, and great question. For that very reason - the hundreds of available Schlumbergera cultivars all grow somewhat differently, and also have different sensitivities to growing conditions - I keep them separate. Lots of genetic variation at play after many decades of intensive breeding.
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💕🌱Beautiful as always, Phil! And Merry Christmas! 🎅 A few of mine have taken a hit from rot, of course, when they were at peak form.🙄 Most bounce back though a couple went to Heaven.👻 Yours is a classic and tough, a great heirloom & sweet remembrance of your grandmother!
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🌱Correction with apologies - Barnell L. Cobia passed away in 2003 rather than 2002 - a huge loss either way.
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🌱🙏 Thank you kindly, Helen. As a group, the fimbriated Schlumbergera cultivars are fun, even if more challenging to grow. Here's the original 'Aspen' (Barnell L. Cobia, 1999) playing nice in the sandbox with others 😃 including having an important chat with a non-fimbriated white.😎
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🌱☁️🌤 Indeed it may. For fun (if you have the room) can try a pot of same variety in 4 exposures. I've noticed here "firing order" more or less W, S, E, N, can vary w/tree coverage/pruning, adjacent structures, etc. Sunnier pic of Schlumbergera x buckleyi 'Red Aspen' showing S. russelliana influence.😎
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🌱Your gorgeous specimen 💕 is also Schlumbergera russelliana - the true species form of Christmas Cactus. Bloom time varies by latitude & photoperiod, & a cloudy late Summer/early Fall can induce an earlier launch.😎