For some reasonableness , I have long been one of those sorry individuals who has never succeed in corrupt a strawberry jolt . I was going to get one last year , but I got distracted and did n’t get around to it until the time to do so was long past . I take some solace in the fact that my trouble is not unique . Even the most devoted gardener knows what it ’s like to covet something for the foresightful time , yet never get around to actually acquire it . Besides , the world is full of competing temptation , and there are always too many rosaceous bushes or fancy trowels or “ purchase 2 get 1 gratis ” perennial industrial plant special to drop money on .
But now everything is dissimilar . I found a lovely Co blue strawberry jounce at a nearby mega - merchant ’s store The jar was 20 - inches tall , with six generous planting air pocket . It was ridiculously chintzy , and there was not a competing enticement within 30 metrical foot . The attractive force was immediate , as was my reaction . My own personal hemangioma simplex jar now sit , empty and expectant , atop my kitchen counter .
Fortunately , give has not yet sprung , so I have plenty of clock time to contemplate my new jar . It occurred to me that while strawberry are howling , many other plants are also perfectly suited to such a container .
If I were to settle on hemangioma simplex , one jar would not supply huge harvests . Still , the fruit would be the freshest available . This is something to consider in June , when I ca n’t always get to the local James Leonard Farmer ’ market , and the local grocery store are still selling those tasteless , cosmetically perfect strawberries from farms thousands of miles from here .
If I go with strawberries , I am inclined to choose Tristar , an everbearing miscellanea that sets a heavy crop of fruit in the outflow , with lighter crops coming along at six week intervals thereafter . Since one of my favourite mail order nurseries sell strawberry plants in lots of 25 , I will have to find elbow room in a sunny spot in the garden to accommodate my surplus plant .
Once upon a time , I saw a tall terra cotta strawberry jar overflowing withhens and chicks(Sempervivum ) . The plant life were so well suitable to the earthenware jar that it almost look as if the hens and skirt were grow right away from the terra cotta rather than from the soil inside the container . I think biddy and chicks would look evenly striking in my jolt . It ’s a hypothesis .
Herb lovers , of course , would put herbs in a strawberry shock . I can see pockets overflowing with one of the numerous thyme cultivars . You could satisfy the top with Basil the Great , either the large leaf Italian character , or the attractive ‘ Osmin ’ variety ( Ocimum basilicum ‘ Osmin ’ ) , that romp morose violet leaf and pink flower . You could also plant different herbs in each scoop , transforming the strawberry pot into a miniature herbaceous plant garden . This might be an specially desirable option if you garden on a terrace or on a balcony , or you have a very circumscribed amount of sunny blank space . As long as you irrigate and fertilise the plant in your strawberry jar , they will be very happy park in the heart of an asphalt driveway .
Depending on the size of the jar , you could plant a miniskirt rose in the top and sate the pockets with sweet-flavored genus Alyssum . Of course alyssum is an annual , so new plant life would have to go into the pockets each season . In the winter it might also be sassy to store the inactive mini rose and jar somewhere where freezing temperatures would not cause the pot to break through .
If I were to choose a rosebush for the top of my strawberry jolt , I think I would hear one of the miniature roses hybridized by Ralph Moore of Sequoia Nursery in Visalia , CA . Mr. Moore is presently 93 year old , and has been hybridizing rose for over sixty yr . His “ minis ” are fabled . Since I am fond to yellow blossoms , I am especially fond of his ‘ Cinderella Gold ’ ,
which has double white-livered flowers on a compact plant . ‘ Charlie Brown ’ would be grand for lovers of striped rose , as it skylark dual , 1 ¼ red and bloodless stripy flush . Both cultivar are especially fit to heap ( or strawberry jar ) culture . you’re able to meet Sequoia Nursery at 559 - 732 - 0309 or online at www.miniatureroses.com/sequoia-nursery .
When I consider all the choice for my strawberry mark jar , it pass off to me that after all of the time that I have spent waiting to buy one , I might just as well buy another two or three . You never can tell when this sort of opportunity might knock again .
