Re: Redbud - Echium - can't win em all

Your place looks great Kitty - love the babies too.  I love VA bluebells but
they croak from the heat here, so I settle for Blue Daze.  My redbud is 11
years old now and has survived this 2 year + drought.  Could they suffer
from too much water I'm wondering?   Can't think of what might have happened
to it otherwise.

On 5/5/07, Kitty <kmrsy@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Frankly Ceres, I don't know much - or I know too much - about this
> plant.  I
> was on one of Chris's other Lists for a while - Mediterranean plants - and
> people kept talking about them so I looked them up and thought they were
> wonderful. Then I saw an Echium listed hardy to Zone 5 in the Seneca Hill
> catalogue and ordered it for one of our Display Gardens, but I don't know
> how it fared.  Then I saw this one offered by Green Mtn Transplants in
> Maine. One said E russicum, the other, E rubrum, but I've since figured
> out
> they are the same plant.  GMT and Seneca both said it was a perennial.
> Other sources say biennial.  As in my message to Jim, the zone listings
> are
> all over the place.  But after digging it up to overwinter in a pot twice,
> even though advice says it resents transplanting, then leaving it in the
> ground this past, harsh winter and openly exposed to a horrible April,
> this
> Echium is thriving.  I will post another picture when it blooms.  And I
> think I'll order more from GMT.
>
> The 10 yr old redbud though is a goner.  Hard to understand.
>
> Kitty
> neIN, Zone 5
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> Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2007 9:39 AM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Redbud - Echium - can't win em all
>
>
> > Kitty, how hardy is this plant.   They are lovely in bloom.   I saw big
> > blue
> > ones at either Chicago Botanical or Mortons Arboretum.
> >     Ceres
> >
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Pam Evans
Kemp TX
zone 8A

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