How are everyone’s plants doing

Ah that’s great I bought some already grown swamp milkweeds from a local university’s garden sale as all the common milkweeds I planted from seed died. But that’s an awesome tip!
 
It's my first season growing carnis outdoor and I'd say not good. They're just starting to grow, I shouldn't have thrown it outside without acclimation... all the existing leaves burnt hard. Same deal for my tea roses/hibiscus that I brought indoors over the winter. My roses were just sticks the past 2 months. The only things doing well are the seeds I started outdoors.
 
Lloyd Gordon said:
Swamp milkweed is a great plant. The plant is attractive. The flowers smell nice and the pollinators love them. You might be better off without the standard syriaca milkweed: it spreads like crazy. The swamp milkweed very slowly clumps and is well behaved.
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Yeah I don’t want anything to aggressive as it is in my mother’s garden so a nice little clump will be nice. I also planted some spotted Joe Pye weed and that is happy so hopefully it gets big
 
Lloyd Gordon said:
Swamp milkweed is a great plant. The plant is attractive. The flowers smell nice and the pollinators love them. You might be better off without the standard syriaca milkweed: it spreads like crazy. The swamp milkweed very slowly clumps and is well behaved.
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This year I got my first flowers from Asclepias rubra that I grew from ICPS seed exchange seed. Great plant!
 
Asclepias rubra looks nice, probably not hardy here. My Syriaca is almost as tall as I am, tons of fragrant flowers. I'm constantly digging up offshoots to keep it contained.
 
My little VFT is doing well outside. I've had to weigh getting it enough sunlight with preventing it from being cooked in the recent heat.

Got my random mix of seeds from HungryFlyTraps on Etsy on Friday, so prepped them and put them in the fridge yesterday.
And then the seeds from @stevebradford came today, so I just set them up in the fridge too :)

Going to be a long six weeks, and then however many weeks after that until they sprout :)
 
VFT seeds don't need stratification. Also VFT's are ok with heat as long as the medium is wet.
 
Oh neat, I thought all the temperate carnivorous plants needed it like dormancy. Good to know!
I'll probably skip dormancy this winter to get a bit of a growth boost as well.
 
Toodles said:
I haven’t posted here in a while so I want to ask how everyone’s plants are doing?
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Some plants are definitely doing better than others. My VFTs are in rough shape since I can't ever seem to do right by them over the winter. I expect they'll probably be good as new again around late autumn. None of my seeds are growing; I must have let them dry out at some point. On the other hand, my pings are happier than they've ever been before! I also keep getting new nepenthes. I should probably stop doing that, or at least get rid of some somehow.

So, you know, it's a mixed bag.
 
One lonely flava left (pitchered here almost 20 years ago) but it has multiplied since then and still going strong. Problem is, with neglect, the shoreline shrubs overwhelmed my mini bog with shade. Even the purp vanished in darkness. I think the flava is the "Survivor" of this long term experiment only by virtue of its height grabbing a little sun.
I cleared out what shrubs I could and ordered some purp seeds to try out again. Also some VFT seeds to experiment with since they used to self seed here. They will be shipped "as soon as the postal strike ends". Then I will try again!
 
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