• Subject: Re: Stokesia question
• From: A*@aol.com
• Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 17:14:16 EDT

I think I've found it.  It seems to be a cultivar called 'Mary Gregory.'
_http://www.mobot.org/GARDENINGHELP/PLANTFINDER/Plant.asp?code=W580_ 
(http://www.mobot.org/GARDENINGHELP/PLANTFINDER/Plant.asp?code=W580) 
It's really attractive, and not at all like the ordinary Stokesias I have.
 
I have a sentimental attachment to the old blue ones.  The first 
flower show I can remember - back in the 1930s - my grandmother
won a blue ribbon for her Stokesia.  It was then that I fell in love with
flower shows, and I've never gotten over it. Of course, my grandmother
was no gardener - she had someone else do all that for her - but she
did like to have the "latest" of anything, and the woman who did all
her gardening and other heavy work often brought her things from 
other gardens.  Nancy (the gardener) often said "if the baby (that was
me) plants it, it's sure to grow."
Auralie
 
 
 
In a message dated 6/27/2010 5:05:39 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
kmrsy@comcast.net writes:

Oh wow, I just saw this plant last weekend.  A friend of mine is opening a 
nursery near a small town not far from here.  I went to see the site and 
also ended up touring her home garden that's in the small town.  She 
pointed 
out a stokesia that is identical to your description.  She mentioned that 
it 
hadn't sold well for her but that she was quite enamoured of it herself.

I don't know her cell ph number; we've always connected via email.  If I 
can 
reach her, I'll try to get the name, though she's not much on keeping track 
of cultivar names.

Meanwhile, perhaps you could email Lois at Bluestone.  She always seems to 
answer pretty quickly.  Or call them first thing in the morning.

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