This breaks my heart, Arlyn.

Very disappointing!

Grrrrr...such a sad year.

Grand Teton



Tabasco

Tabasco was probably affected by "rot treatment", and not the round up......but there are about a dozen, or so, that have bloomed (or tried to !) that are "chemical related injuries". I had hoped that only the "first bloom" would be affected, but I guess it's more a 'every bloom on that stalk" kind of thing . And since almost all of them were 'new"plants....there is only one stalk . I'm happy that only one plant actually died from it (or, at least that's what I'm blaming the "demise" on !) .
One that I REALLY wanted to see bloom was "Chimera". (Zurbrigg '61)........but what I got was "ZIP" !!

Funny how we got every chimera except the REAL one. 'Next year' seems to be the mantra right now.

Arlyn were any of them re-bloomers? Maybe you will get a second chance in the fall. I hope.

Well, The REAL Chimera is an Re....so maybe :
this as all chemical damage:

Wow...that IS bad.

Wow, Arlyn, that is horrible....on top of everything else this year.

How's this for weird?
It's Kiss of Kisses

I wonder, Tom, if the bud got damaged "mechanically ".......insect "bite", or something like that ?

I've had an abnormally high rate of these this year. And I can't bring myself
to believe the weather is responsible for them all. There is so much herbicide
being spread during April & May that I am sure it gets carried by the wind
for miles. And being in a rural area we are surrounded by miles and miles of
fields. I've seen tankers out spraying with winds as high as 20-25 mph. If we
watch the dust clouds they drift for miles. Just my thoughts, but I've not seen
them this bad in past years.

Leon, I'm in agreement. Too many people use pesticides and herbicides when removing manually will work just as well and not hurt anyone or plants or animals. I've seen my own family get out the Raid or and herbicide for one critter or weed. Makes no sense to me to poison when it isn't necessary.

All I can say is if that is a Kiss of Kisses then whoever hybridized it surely has never been properly kissed! (at least not this year)

Today's crop:



Miss California



Volunteer Fireman......this was probably "climate" related

Well, that first one's just not right. I like the extras.

Volunteer Fireman sure is a pretty color.

Arlyn your Fireman looks good with 4.