I am joining the SOS crowd again today, reflecting on discoveries in my garden this week. Above is a Graptosedum succulent, gifted to me by a friend. I did not realize they flowered – but there it is.
One of my favorite discoveries, Mystic Blue Salvia. This one was planted March 2021 and has been flowwering ever since.
My first Dahlia sprout. I planted Labyrinth tubers about 10 days ago, did not read the directions about not watering them..then stopped. I figured I had rotted the tubers, but no! Hoping for some cut flowers, these are planted in grow bags.
Sugar Baby watermelon that faked me out. I have these in grow bags and put an old teak ottoman next to the bag to grow the melons off the ground. Not realizing they would go through the slats. Now I have to figure a way to support the fruit as it ripens. Thinking a mesh sling might do the trick.
New crop of radishes almost ready to eat.
New flush of flowers on the Mexican Honeysuckle (Justicia spicigera)
My spring wonders for this week. To see more wonders, visit http://www.thepropagatorblog.wordpress.com
Happy Gardening!!
The Shrub Queen 
That melon is cute with a mind of its own. A full year’s bloom from that salvia–very nice.
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Those watermelons!!
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I love the Spring radishes! You’ve reminded me to get some seeds in our plot!
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Thanks, Jayne..plant some radishes! they are so much better than the storebought..
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The escaping melon made me smile. I didn’t know you weren’t supposed to water the Dahlia tubers either. Some of mine are coming up, others aren’t, oh well we live and learn.
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I kept wondering what happened to the melon…oh, well on the Dahlias, I had been watering them twice a day! Kind of a weird thing..don’t water at first and then a lot.
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Place one or more bricks to support the baby watermelon while it grows. It will soon touch the ground. Mine was 25cm in diameter when mature.
However, there won’t be much sun down there….
I saw some Justicia in Portugal and I wanted to take a cutting back but I had nothing to keep it… Never mind ! Will try from seeds later.
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That is a good idea, thanks, Fred. The melon is about a third that size now and growing fast. Justicia is easy to root from cuttings not sure about seed.
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I know… that’s why I wanted a cutting 😔
Keep us posted on the watermelon!
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I have to find some bricks.
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Your watermelon made me chuckle. Are your Dahlias planted in the ground and will they come up every year?
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Me, too. The Dahlias are in bags, the sand won’t hold enough water to sustain them in the garden, though they are perennial here. Another experiment, I have never seen any int the ground here – a very few in containers.
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OK, I think here they just rot. I used to buy a lot of different plants in my early gardening days, but now I only buy tough perennials that can take our weather, bugs, fungus…
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Oddly, for Florida I am not sure anything has rotted in my garden! I bought the cheapest Dahlias possible. I had this idea all the native plant material would do well, which is sadly not true. I need to go look for the Penstemon – I have a feeling I should have started it in pots..
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My penstemon are coming up and are about the size of my palm. We are finally warming up and will have rain for two days, so everything should be growing well.
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Hmm, it just started raining a bit here and things are coming up, will keep an eye out.
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The watermelon and radishes look quite promising. I have never seen the Mexican honeysuckle before – lovely.
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thanks, I am hoping to eat the watermelon. The M honeysuckle is a relative of shrimp plants. I have some other shrimp plants in the garden.
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Everything is looking so promising! And what a nice friend to gift you the Graptosedum – did it come in that pot?
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Thanks, the Graptosedum came as a cutting several years ago, I have many of them now, some in the ground.
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Love the melon! Perhaps a bit of pea netting strung from the wood underneath it? So nice to see the radishes as well – my Salvia (we had it as ‘Mystic Spires’) are huddled in pots in the greenhouse at the moment – just shooting new growth. I do love them – if we had your temperatures it would be great to see them flowering continuously!
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I was thinking about netting, too..there is some around here..somewhere.
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Oh – yes, those useful things one stashes!!!
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Found it! watermelon is propped up now…
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It is nice to see your salvia flowering so nicely… mine are only just starting to send up new shoots. Doesn’t the melon need sunshine to ripen? I have never grown melons and just assumed they are like squash. Your radishes look good. I shall start sowing mine soon. 😃
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Does ‘Sugar Baby’ watermelon get too heavy for the vine to support? The slats seem to be close enough to each other that the vine should not be pulled down and through.
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I think so. supposedly they can be trained up a structure and the fruit needs support.
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The fruit needs support so that it does not pull the vines down, but may not need support if the vine can not be pulled through that narrow slot. In such a situation, support would be needed if the weight of the fruit might pull it off of the stem.
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The vine and fruit pulled through; it has a mesh supporter.
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