Thanks, Chris, for the handsome photograph.

 

Your Joe-Pye is even grander than mine, but they are both handsome plants.

 

Many of my favorite plants are so-called weeds.  I always have some milkweed

at the back of the bed - it is a handsome plant and smells so lovely when it's in

bloom - to say nothing of the Monarchs.

 

Another favorite is Perilla frutescens - the deep purple one.  It makes handsome

masses in difficult spots, and the deer don't touch it. 

 

Still another is the perennial yellow foxglove = Digitalis ambigua.- handsome and

deer-proof, but my neighbors call it a weed.  Oh well, their loss.

 

Auralie

 

 

 

In a message dated 8/8/2014 1:05:04 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, 1*@rewrite.hort.net writes:

Hi Auralie!

I'm with you on that.  I'm attaching a photo of my overgrown Joe-pye
weed clump on the corner of the house.  You can't beat a statement like
this in the garden this time of year! 

Apologies for the poor photo quality.  I didn't shoot it with a potato --
it was cloudy and grey.  :)  The clump is about 8' high.  There's an
open space behind it where a balsam fir fell two years ago, so a
Clethra barbinervis is going there this fall.

Chris