Hanging Basket Petunias

Planting inpatients @redstar? I don’t think we’ve tried that here, might help with the NHS waiting lists

 

They are good in a more shaded area, not dark shade. One year I planted totally white ones and in the evening the moonlight made them glow. so pretty. Here is my mailbox pot of them. That pot takes 28 , then they just grow out.

 

I truly don't do Petunias often. they have their moments.

BTW, that mailbox by the road is 80 paces from my front door. and my back door is 100 paces to the gazebo. we sit on 3 acres.

 

I'm addicted to "Gold Rush" on the Discovery channel so yeah, to me Yukon means gold, plus equipment constantly breaking down and people running waving their arms yelling "Shut 'er down!".

 

One year when I traveled to California, was so expecting a lush color of flowers everywhere, got so disappointed. There were places that had inpatients planted in their beds, SMH. I was expecting bird of paradise etc.[/QUOTE]

Greetings Pete - I felt I had to respond to this. Our daughter lives in Mill Valley, California so we’ve had many occasions to visit. Perhaps it’s because we come from a sub arctic town in Canada, but we have found summers in that part of California, an explosion of gorgeous flowers. In the adjacent town of Corte Madera, they have hanging baskets on the lamp posts like I’ve never seen anywhere else. The red flowers here (I don’t even know if you can call them flowers) are seen on the streets in Mill Valley as are Bird of Paradise and Foxgloves. Also, under the gigantic redwoods, which completely blot out any sun, grow the most beautiful impatiens.

It’s an incredible climate which allows for a seemingly infinite variety of flowers to thrive.

Perhaps your disappointment is linked to the season you visited? Because the winters (I use that term loosely as they don’t have any snow, just a lot of rain) are quite the contrast to the summers. You can still see flowers but nothing like the variety and colors of the summer.

As for me here in the Yukon, we’re having a pretty decent summer which means that the closest we have come to frost is 4C so the flowers are doing well. After August 15 though, all bets are off and the frost can come anytime but so far, so good.

 

Ha ha! The possibility of digging up a gold nugget in your backyard is real in Dawson City, Yukon - the site of the famous Gold Rush of 1898. Here in Whitehorse, it's copper ore that I might come across. In fact, they're drilling within city limits hoping to find enough of the stuff to start a new copper mine!

 

@John Stern , the unknown red flower is bottle brush, (Callistemon) although they may have changed the name already.