For a week or so I have been noticing some strange things about many of the blooms in my garden, and the problem seems to be growing.
I am becoming concerned about it and was wanting to ask if anyone has had or is having this happen in their garden this year.
I took pictures this morning to illustrate the problem, a picture is worth a thousand words they say. I will still add a few words also. I took these photos just before and just after 10:00 am this morning. So the blooms would normally be open on most of my plants by that time. However many blooms, not just the few in the photos just are only opening part way, they are very pale and washed out, they are weak and in many cases totally unrecognizable to me without just knowing the location or seeing the name plate.
So here are the photos:
'Infield Fly Rule':
'Night Wings':
'Sue Rothbauer':
'Spiny Sea Urchin:
'Panic In Detroit':
'Bragging Rights':
'Colossus':
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'Crazy Ivan':
'Wyatt Earp':
'Wish Fulfillment':
'Feliz Navidad':
'Filled With Joy':
'South Sea Enchantment':
'Super Purple':
We have had about three weeks of drought, but these plants in the photos I think are everyone in the bog, and it has not been dry there. Other beds that have been dryer are showing the same symptoms.
Yes we did have some extreme cold for us, and some late freezes. However I think all the plants in these photos actually put out beautiful blooms before the past two weeks. Red Velvet Elvis put out it's best bloom ever just a few days ago and now I don't even recognize it.
So the only other thing I can think of that may be the culprit is my spraying, but as far as I know I have not changed anything. Still, I do need to double check and make sure nothing is different because I did actually swap out some bottles with some easier to hold bottles with snap top lids recently (actually only one the others were changed much earlier). So the only thing that could have been mixed up would be my spreader sticker for my Abamectin, they do look just alike and that was one of the bottles I swapped out. I will double check that. If the new bottle is slicky and sticky then it is my surfactant, and that is what it should be.
