Re: Buddleia ( was Russian sage - invasive?)

Not so sure!  There is a huge Buddleia at the Boyce Thompson Arboretum near
Superior AZ outside Phoenix --
--Barb, Grass Valley CA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "james singer" <islandjim1@verizon.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 3:59 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Buddleia ( was Russian sage - invasive?)


> Buddleia do well here. So it must be dry heat rather than humid heat
> that they don't like.
>
> On Jun 1, 2005, at 6:39 PM, Johnson Cyndi D Civ AFFTC/ITSR wrote:
>
> > I have a couple buddleia but they don't seem to like me that much. I
> > always
> > figured it was too hot and dry in the summer. They grow, and bloom,
> > but you
> > would not call them lush. The blooms are maybe half as big as I've
> > seen in
> > northern California where the summers aren't so hot.
> >
> > Cyndi
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
> > Behalf
> > Of A A HODGES
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 2:55 PM
> > To: gardenchat@hort.net
> > Subject: Re: [CHAT] Russian sage - invasive?
> >
> >
> > I don't think so Kitty. I have a friend that grew one, of course I
> > can't
> > recall the cultivar now. It was a silvery/lavender color. She grew it
> > against the hottest, driest part of the house, never watered it, and
> > it was
> > probably 8 feet tall when she moved. Bloomed constantly. She's trying
> > some
> > at her new place which has the same type of dry sandy soil as her old
> > place
> > so we'll see how it goes.
> > A
> >
> > Andrea H
> > Beaufort, SC
> >
> >
> >> [Original Message]
> >> From: Chapel Ridge Wal Mart National Hearing Center
> > <4042N15@nationalhearing.com>
> >> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> >> Date: 6/1/2005 10:32:59 AM
> >> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Russian sage - invasive?
> >>
> >> Andrea, I wonder if your Buddleia problems have to do with heat zones?
> >>
> >> Kitty
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "A A HODGES" <hodgesaa@earthlink.net>
> >> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> >> Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 10:33 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Russian sage - invasive?
> >>
> >>
> >>> I gave up on it. My soil is too wet I guess. Mine never did much of
> >>> anything and then pooped out a couple of years ago. Didn't feel like
> >>> messing with it again. Same with Buddleia. I don't know HOW people
> >>> get those things to do well. Not one single plant that I've ever
> >>> gotten, and there have been quite a few, have made it through an
> >>> entire season. I've tried them in different types of soils, no
> >>> water, lots of water, some water, no luck. And at different houses,
> >>> so I know it's not just this
> >> yard.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Andrea H
> >>> Beaufort, SC
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> [Original Message]
> >>>> From: Theresa <tchessie@comcast.net>
> >>>> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> >>>> Date: 5/31/2005 9:03:39 PM
> >>>> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Russian sage - invasive?
> >>>>
> >>>> I've had one since last summer, but it has grown poorly (why I
> >>>> have no
> >>>> idea) and so no suckers or seedlings here.  I will keep an eye on it
> >>>> though, given your experience.
> >>>>
> >>>> Theresa
> >>>>
> >>>> Johnson Cyndi D Civ AFFTC/ITSR wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Anyone growing Russian sage (perovskia atriplicifolia)?  I
> >>>>> planted
> > some
> >>> last
> >>>>> year in my dry garden and it did really well. I noticed this year
> > that
> >>> there
> >>>>> are suckers around the base of all 3 I planted, and small
> >>>>> seedlings
> >>> about 3
> >>>>> to 4 feet away from one of them. It's supposed to spread to about
> >>>>> 3'
> >>> wide,
> >>>>> but they are almost that big already and I didn't see anything
> >>>>> that indicates it is a pest. Now I'm wondering what I've gotten
> >>>>> into. Has
> >>> anyone
> >>>>> else had experience with it?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Cyndi
> >>>>>
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> Island Jim
> Southwest Florida
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> Hardiness Zone 10
> Heat Zone 10
> Minimum 30 F [-1 C]
> Maximum 100 F [38 C]
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