Intense Storm Knocked Down My Plants
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- Ironweed plants down!! I will figure out what to do. Last year, I think I did the chelsea chop on these. Looks like I should have done that this year, too, but I did not. I like seeing how tall they can get. I also should have planted them in a slightly different spot years ago when I added them to the garden or put tall things around it to help it stay up. I was so worried I was going to lose some trees, but looks like the trees are fine. Thankfully, this is all the damage I have found so far. What storm damage have you had in your garden, if any, over the years?
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So glad you kept safe!!! I know those sudden and strong storms can be so scary. We had a "micro burst" here once. It lasted only a very short time but when it was done it looked like a war zone on my street. Downed trees, almost leafless trees, and even dead birds every where. Probably lots of dead pollinators too, Your garden held up pretty good and I'm thankful. I am gardening vicariously through yours.
OH MY!! That sounds terrifying and awful!!! This was no where near that level. I was just afraid I had missed a tornado warning or something, because I usually follow the weather pretty closely, but that day I hadn't. And I saw the wind and was very nervous about it. It can get pretty windy here on this hill, but it looked bad. I'm so glad you survived those bursts of storms. That's no joke. Thanks for watching and for commenting. :)
Scary! Glad everything worked out and even the plants themselves weren’t a loss. Just not looking their best.
Me, too! I was ready to hunker down!! LOL Thanks for watching and commenting. :)
Unfortunately my wife lost her sunflowers to a similar storm that passed through Eastern NC.. We had some really tall 9ft+ ones at the bottom of the driveway that the bumbles and finches loved.. Blew them right over and almost out of the ground. 😢
So so sorry to hear that! :( It's sad to see plants go...especially when we just saw wildlife using them! But we keep on planting! Gotta keep on going and try to replace what we lose, when we can.
That was a rough one, wasn't it? Surprisingly, my singular Ironweed was the one thing that held fast through that patch of storms. I think it might've had something to do with my soil being absolute junk in combination with the garden being young; poor plants didn't have much time to grip into the soil that I was left with. My biggest casualty was an eight-foot-tall mystery Sunflower (supposed to be False Sunflower - not my first surprise from NPRS 😅) that got whipped so hard back and forth over those days I'm surprised it didn't just pop out of the ground. I staked up so many plants in the hopes that they'll have time to recover before winter - fingers crossed we don't get more storms like that!
Right?!! It was wild. That wind was so strong!! I'm glad your ironweed held fast. So sorry about your false sunflower. :( Yeah, hopefully we won't have that strong of wind for a while....In the meantime, I'm trying to decide how to prevent the ironweed falling in the future. The area is on a slope, and it fell down the slope, so I'm thinking of adding trellises or a native shrub on that right side of the ironweed patch to help them stay up next year or maybe years after that, depending on how long it takes the shrub to grow...maybe a patch of lattice trellising would be more reliable... :)
@@awildapproach Hmm, you might be right about a structure being the approach - maybe you can even go about it as an extension of your arbor? Assuming we're talking about the first spot by the walkway, that is. Alternatively, maybe Clethra alnifolia would work in that spot if it's not dry (another assumption, since the Ironweed is there). It's pretty columnar for a shrub and I think the flowers smell great and would make sense being next to a walkway.
@@embrustzwei OooOoooh! Thank you for that suggestion! I will look into that. Yeah, this spot is a little more moist than a lot of my other garden areas. I think it's because it's just a few feet from the gutter and downhill from the east end of the garden, too. :) Yeah, I actually meant to extend the arbor by a bit when I built it, but didn't get the chance before everything grew in. I'm going to look at that shrub, as it sounds like a great possibility.
Shoot! It's a wonderful plant, but in my area it needs a shady spot. This spot next to the ironweed is intense full full sun. I'd say 8 hours of sun maybe...at least 6.
@@awildapproach If the spot's as moist as you say due to roof runoff, it'd probably be fine - Clethra alnifolia is adaptable to full sun, it just does lives its best life with some shade. Mergoat (don't know if you're familiar with them) actually sited it for me when they designed my landscape in a spot that gets absolutely cooked all day and was really surprised - in the end I opted for a Viburnum, but I trust their judgment. Additionally, if you get young plants, they'll most likely be shaded and will work themselves up to all that sun over time. Might be worth an experiment! I'm not familiar with many other shrubs that naturally don't get very wide.