RE: millet

I'm going to start some myself this weekend. Even got some for Jesse for
her birthday too. Cannot wait to see this plant this summer!!


Pam

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Kitty Morrissy" <kmrsy@earthlink.net>
Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date:  Fri, 31 Jan 2003 18:03:57 -0500

>Kathy,
>Ah! a green-er-purple topic!I'm planning on starting some of the AAS
>winner, too.  I hadn't thought about containers. I thought something like
>that would have big or extensive roots, even for an annual. But it sounds
>like a great idea.  I believe it needs full sun.
>
>I was thinking about including it in a bed with several Purple Fountain
>Grass and all filled in with coleus Alabama Sunset.  Kind of my own little
>volcano bed of red/purple erupting out of a mass of chartreuse and
>red/purple.
>
>I don't do a lot of flower arranging, so I couldn't answer to that.  No
>experience with okra unless you count the gumbo disaster I made years ago.
>
>Kitty
>
>
>
>> [Original Message]
>> From: <Cornergar@aol.com>
>> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
>> Date: 1/31/2003 11:50:17 AM
>> Subject: [CHAT] millet
>>
>> Snowing heavily today so I need to think GREEN. I am considering starting 
>> ornamental millet pennisetum glaucum 'Purple Majesty' to use as a
>centerpiece 
>> for large container plantings. Anyone have any experience with this 
>> plant?..and how about as a cut flower? Will it tolerate light shade?
>Another 
>> possibility is ornamental okra. Will the pod work as a cut stem or will
>it 
>> need to be dried and mounted on wire to be used in an arrangement?
>thanks. 
>> Kathyz5b
>>
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Pam Evans
Kemp TX/zone 8A


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