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

Thanks for the offer Bonnie, but I still have another Redbud in the back yard. I think I will actually be happy to have sun on the south side again. It was just sad to see it die like that. 
Kitty
neIN, Zone 5
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bonnie Holmes" <holmesbm@usit.net> 
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2007 4:25 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] 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



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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
----- Original Message ----- From: <Cersgarden@aol.com> 
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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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