Re: Buddleia ( was Russian sage - invasive?)

Growing well & reseeding in rich black loam with lots of water, good
drainage, full sun or high shade and dry heat & mostly mild winters here. z
6 Idaho
----- Original Message -----
From: "Barbara Tandy" <sundrops@earthlink.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 11:05 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] 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
> > 27.0 N, 82.4 W
> > Hardiness Zone 10
> > Heat Zone 10
> > Minimum 30 F [-1 C]
> > Maximum 100 F [38 C]
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