A Gardeners Forum Forums General Discussion The Plants and Flowers Forum MY PINK FOUNTAIN ...GAURA .........TODAY.

Is anyone else in to the Gaura flower?
I bought mine for $3.00 about a month ago.
I think it is cute.......

Tell me of yours..It is supposed to be a Perennial..

Very pretty, Barb. I don't have any yet. But plan on getting a couple. They are supposed to be perennial from zone 6-9 but are reported as living over in much colder places. So I hope yours do for you too.

Thanks Jonii

i am zone 5 but they say mulch it......If I do not forget.

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I used to have a few guara plants dodge. I had two pink and 1 white. Over the years they have died but they sure were pretty while they were alive. They are perennial but I think they're life span is only 3 or 4 years. They can take the heat and the dry and if you have a bird bath look pretty planted encircling it. When in full bloom it looks like tiny moths swaying back and forth on the thin stalks.

Sheri

Didnt you take a photo of them?

First time here for me.. I hope they live over winter, I did get one for sis an her daughter .........

I think the blight is killin my orchids.

Pretty Dodge!

I tried to grow them when they were first selling them around here a few years ago - they got very long and leggy and fell over no matter what I tried, and none of them came back over winter.

I hope you have much better luck with them!

pnp

Thats funny......Mine are compact so far.

Maybe stake them?????

b

I didn't have to stake mine. They were very thin and fine and wispy. The flowers are so tiny they didn't pull mine over. They would sway in the breeze but it was beautiful when the flowers were blooming. They died at different times. May have been because of the drought because I didn't water them.

What kind of blight is on your orchids?

All I can see is black dots on the leaves. The leaves are real soft an wrinkled.

One weeny one looks ok.......

Algave has white stuff all over it ......My squash outside does too.
Gerber daisy....got at lowes on sale was coated with white.. Same as tomato blight I think.. They turn black??



Makes one sad..

I found my pictures of the guara

Very pretty and healthy looking, too, Sheri.

Wow

Sheri those are great looking.. Hope mine survive the winter..

b

I pegged mine down after they bloomed and put compost over them and they doubled in size.Mine get shaded too much so get leggy,but do hold up to the heat well.

Gorgous sheri..
Gorgous

have you winterized yours dodge?

Naw not the outside one .

Inside one yes..
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IF I remember it Barb, I am going to plant one next year---it is stunning

Frogger you got 2 months till next year..LOL
goffer.

I stand corrected. I will plant one next "spring" if I remember----

Put it on your calendar ......2010.........I have one already.
I use them for memos ......They I loose the,

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