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GordonC said:
That is what you want the butterfly bush to do.
It will die in 3-4 years if you let new growth form on the old wood.
Cut dat sumbeech to the ground if you can. hahahahaha
Also with that new growth, cut about a four inch stem below a leaf node and trim off all but the top leaves. Put it in the best potting soil you have but don't let the leaves get wet. Let it get dappled light and no more than 2-3 hours of direct sun a day. Keep the soil moist and don't let it dry out.
We had them in containers everywhere last year.
Edit: hydrangeas (require a dark plastic sack on top of them), butterfly bush, and geraniums are the easiest things for me to propagate from cuttings.
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I bought 2 dwarf butterfly "Pugster" blue a few weeks ago. I broke off a couple of stems while transplanting from pot to ground. removed most of the lower leaves and stuck in the ground. Surviving.
 
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Go aeiou said:
I bought 2 dwarf butterfly "Pugster" blue a few weeks ago. I broke off a couple of stems while transplanting from pot to ground. removed most of the lower leaves and stuck in the ground. Surviving.
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I had a butterfly bush in the warm N GA climate at our old house. In the corner of the bed by the porch. Couldn't keep up with it. It got massive, even though it was hacked back annually. Finally just dug it out.
 
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GVF said:
I had a butterfly bush in the warm N GA climate at our old house. In the corner of the bed by the porch. Couldn't keep up with it. It got massive, even though it was hacked back annually. Finally just dug it out.
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I cut ours back severely every year, and it still grows to about 6 feet tall.
 
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I lost both butterfly bushes and the Lady Banks rose, again from that Christmas weather (I believe.) It was really warm right beforehand and everything broke dormancy and started growing again, and then blammo.
 
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GordonC said:
Our "tree rose" looks dead, but little chutes have popped up everywhere around it, but they don't look like tree roses. I'm just lettin em grow to see what happens.
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Sounds like the scion stock made it, and the graft scion didn’t.

edit - I always get that backwards
 
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GordonC said:
Our "tree rose" looks dead, but little chutes have popped up everywhere around it, but they don't look like tree roses. I'm just lettin em grow to see what happens.
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THose growths will be stem roses coming up from the grafting roots. I had a show stopper tree rose back home. Let it get a good ball on top. It was self-supportive too. Neighbor friends dug it up and took it home when we moved. Wish I had brought it. Mine were always Knockouts grafted onto the base. I prefer Knockouts for rose bushes. Less maintenance. mom enjoyed rose gardening and always had a good rose bed. They would go down to Thomasville, GA and buy from the sources. If your a rose growing addict and ever in the area Thomasville is a treat. The Rose Capital. All you have to do with knockouts is a little hedge type pruning after each bloom and they just keep going. Pretty resilient to most everything.
 
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GVF said:
I had a butterfly bush in the warm N GA climate at our old house. In the corner of the bed by the porch. Couldn't keep up with it. It got massive, even though it was hacked back annually. Finally just dug it out.
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GordonC said:
I cut ours back severely every year, and it still grows to about 6 feet tall.
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You might research "pugster" dwarf butterfly bush. They come in several colors. I like the blue. I first saw it at a house in the neighborhood. They are mature(4 years?) and about 3-3.5'wide and 2-2.5' tall. A "Proven Winners" plant so shouldn't be too hard to find.

I'd guess others have come up with a similar dwarf Butterfly Bush.

If you are looking for "blue" look at Chaste tree(shrub). It's beautiful, but probably not for a small yard.
 
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Go aeiou said:
You might research "pugster" dwarf butterfly bush. They come in several colors. I like the blue. I first saw it at a house in the neighborhood. They are mature(4 years?) and about 3-3.5'wide and 2-2.5' tall. A "Proven Winners" plant so shouldn't be too hard to find.

I'd guess others have come up with a similar dwarf Butterfly Bush.

If you are looking for "blue" look at Chaste tree(shrub). It's beautiful, but probably not for a small yard.
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I also have mums planted as perennials now. They go nuts and show out. Had to dig a few out, but left some. THey just can't handle their own size and weight in my beds. THey just lay open at some point.
 
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This morning I noticed a couple of volunteer tomatoes (always a welcome sight) in my side raised bed where all the dill and cilantro is coming back. It looks like a couple of cornflowers and some four-o-clocks as well. I left the cornflowers alone, but I tried to transplant some of the dill into a large container (as well as a few of the four-o-clocks). I'd rather have a couple extra tomatoes than those hahaha. Last year back there I had a husky cherry red and some of the better boy bush tomatoes growing in containers. These that are emerging are pretty full looking for their size. I'm hoping they're better boy bush.
 
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GordonC said:
This morning I noticed a couple of volunteer tomatoes (always a welcome sight) in my side raised bed where all the dill and cilantro is coming back. It looks like a couple of cornflowers and some four-o-clocks as well. I left the cornflowers alone, but I tried to transplant some of the dill into a large container (as well as a few of the four-o-clocks). I'd rather have a couple extra tomatoes than those hahaha. Last year back there I had a husky cherry red and some of the better boy bush tomatoes growing in containers. These that are emerging are pretty full looking for their size. I'm hoping they're better boy bush.
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You'll have to keep us posted on the rogue tomatoes and how they taste. Typically if a hybrid re-seeds itself it will revert to one of hte parent genes. No teling what you'll acctually get.
 
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Still a little behind but making some progress. Everything will just be a little late this year.
That 15-minute hail storm last night beat a lot of those plants pretty badly.
I have some pics from my phone, and they're .jpg. I do not have the energy or patience tonight to try to resize the pics.
 
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just did snips and decided to skip the resize business

Carport out back. Plastic wrap and rubber bands (hillbilly green house) for the Italian oregano, Greek oregano, and portulaca seeds. Thai basil in front are a little scrawny still

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Also carport. Moved the lemon thyme out into the sun. Some small squash coming, 2 zucchini on left. Basil and sage seeds in most of the planters.
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Behind the garage. Daffodils of course are done. Got it cleared out except for lychnis and pink primrose. The lychnis even reseeded in the yard. Two pepper plants back there now, probably more later. Alternated in the cinder block holes between old timey touch-me-not seeds and nasturtium seeds. I have some space to add things here.
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Far side of the garage looking up toward the road. The slope can make container gardening a challenge. A few zucchini coming, some yellow leaves already. Roma determinate and Better Boy Bush determinate in the green pots. Need to add cages.

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Two of the tomatoes that "volunteered" in the raised bed (3 total). The dill is from last year's flowers and has already been cut twice this year.
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The other tomato that volunteered, and this cilantro everywhere. And more dill.
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Sage in the barrel planter, nasturtiums in the holes of the block.
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First nasturtium that flowered was the right color hahaha. Yellow straightneck squash, more cilantro, and cornflowers coming up behind the squash.
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Far side of the garage looking down the hill. Cucumbers in front. Tomatoes in the white buckets. Other planters TBD right now.
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Lettuce ready to cut again, and more coming.

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side of garage near house. Peppers in the back, put some chives in the big grow bag with two peppers. Oregano and sage in the front.
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The geraniums and dianthus took a beating from that hail last night. Rosemary in the back right.
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I planted the geraniums, and these must have been the pots the portulacas were in last year. They reseeded everywhere and are now coming up. HAHAHA
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GordonC said:
Far side of the garage looking down the hill. Cucumbers in front. Tomatoes in the white buckets. Other planters TBD right now…
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I can’t remember - have you grown indeterminates in containers? If so, how did you trellis them or otherwise keep them under control? Or just let them sprawl?

- I saw that you do have some determinates going with tomato cages.
 
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VolNExile said:
I can’t remember - have you grown indeterminates in containers? If so, how did you trellis them or otherwise keep them under control? Or just let them sprawl?

- I saw that you do have some determinates going with tomato cages.
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Yes to the indeterminates in buckets. I leave a few suckers on there and top them above the highest fruit cluster when the fruit cluster reaches the top of the cage.
 
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Lulz, everything looks good I just commented on the dill because I have a hard time growing it here.
 
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