Re: sales/xeriscape

Heucheras croak here.  But our heat season is longer and apparently they don't like clay soil.
sigh...

thank all the gods for lavender, rosemary, artemisias, salvias and
thyme. Mix that clay half and half w/ lava sand and I can grow xeriscape
stuff. It's the only bed I don't have to water.

No wonder it's grown to nearly 12' in diameter.

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "fm4re" <fm4re@swbell.net>
Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date:  Sun, 3 Aug 2003 14:33:19 -0500

>I guess that I'm lucky that my local Home Depot is pretty good about their
>garden section.  This year, they had quarts of perennials for 1.59 and I
>went nuts!  Also allowed me to experiment with some penstemmon and veronica.
>Was able to stock up on hens and chicks for the strip along my entry
>sidewalk.  BUT my heucheras are doing beautifully!  Finally a plant for
>those partially shaded areas that seems to make it in this heat.
>
>Fran, OKC
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Donna " <justme@prairieinet.net>
>To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
>Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2003 10:37 PM
>Subject: RE: [CHAT] sales
>
>
>I don't even bother to look anymore....
>
>Donna
>
>>
>> Our HD is the same. Makes you want to cry. Too bad there is not a
>> Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Plants!
>> Cathy
>
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Pam Evans
Kemp TX/zone 8A



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