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

Don't think it is water. This Redbud is slightly raised, has good drainage, and we've had other years with much more water than this. This redbud is very exposed to sun and wind rather than living as an understory tree as it was meant to be. My other, more-protected redbuds are leafing out now having given only a faint spring showing of buds since, I would guess, most were damaged by the horrible April weather. My dogwoods are in bloom now, but enjoy a more protected site. I'll wait awhile to see if any new leaves appear, but I doubt it - it is naked. This was the strongest of 3 redbuds I had planted on the south side of my house. The back one went within a year - voles or something kept eating its roots. The front one succumbed at about year 5 after being hit by lightning - as near as I could guess for a reason. That left this middle one that had always been so healthy. But if it is kaput, it's not such a bad thing. I could use the sun space again. 

Kitty
neIN, Zone 5
----- Original Message ----- From: "Pam Evans" <gardenqueen@gmail.com> 
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2007 12:02 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] 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
----- Original Message -----
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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.
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