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Gardening

Baltimike

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5. Gardenias come to my garden to die...but hydrangeas, peonies

Reply to The Velveteen Ocelot (Reply #4)

Thu Apr 18, 2019, 04:22 PM

Apr 2019

and clematis grow reasonably well. Now I already had this clematis for a number of years, but never really got blooms...the most *ever* was five with a 6th coming along...but not there yet.

This year, I fertilized as usual lightly dressed with my fave organic compost and added banana peel cut up, and I can count 13 buds that are getting ready to bloom.

They are about 4 years old

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So I added some banana peel to my clematis growing up the mailbox [View all] Baltimike Apr 2019 OP

Wow. Ohiogal Apr 2019 #1

Yep...I absolutely planted them in the ground with compost Baltimike Jun 2019 #6

Interesting. Made me look it up and I never knew Clematis was so hungry! . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Apr 2019 #2

YESS!!! My great grandmother used to say that they are "HUNGRIES" all the time Baltimike Apr 2019 #3

Maybe I've had such bad luck with clematis because I didn't give them banana peels to eat. The Velveteen Ocelot Apr 2019 #4

Gardenias come to my garden to die...but hydrangeas, peonies Baltimike Apr 2019 #5