Blooms Beginning On Our Lisianthus Celeb - Metallic Blue - August 2026
August, already? Yeeesh. The heat is here, but for the first time (for me as a gardener), so, too are the Lisianthus. As a cut flower in our garden. That means that I'm learning something new. The garden continues to reward patience. In this case it is patience to see the blooms change color. To their intended color. Turns out, that's just what Lisianthus does: it changes color as it blooms. Back in Spring, I bought some Lisianthus Metallic Blue (Celeb 2) plugs from Garden Club . They arrived a bit early (my fault), so I potted-them-up and tried to keep them alive for a month-plus until I could plant them outside. They went in the newly expanded Saratoga Ginkgo bed in late May . All eight plugs survived the first month indoors and have made it to August in the ground. I protected them from rabbits with a little chicken wire cage , so I'm not sure if the rabbits would have gotten to these. And...