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

Do you want another redbud?  I always have plenty of seedlings and will pot
up one to send to you this fall if you want.

Bonnie Zone 7/7 ETN
Remember:  The River Raisin, The Alamo, The Maine, Pearl Harbor, 9/11


> [Original Message]
> From: Kitty <kmrsy@comcast.net>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Date: 5/5/2007 11:12:45 AM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Redbud - Echium - can't win em all
>
> 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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> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> 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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