Re: Serendipity
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  • Subject: Re: Serendipity
  • From: P* E* <g*@gmail.com>
  • Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 20:03:22 -0500
agreed.

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 5:53 PM, BONNIE_HOLMES <bonnie_holmes@comcast.net>wrote:

> What ever it is, you must save the seeds. You may have a new variety.
> I've never see white Joe Pye. I also have it growing in my gardens and
> love it.
>
>
> B
> ETN Zone 7
> Remember the River Raisin, the Alamo, the Maine, Pearl Harbor, 911.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Aplfgcnys@aol.com
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 6:46:31 PM
> Subject: [CHAT] Serendipity
>
> As you all know, I'm not a very neat gardener. I let things grow
> where they want to, if I don't need the space for something else.
> Especially wild flowers that some people call weeds, like my
> beloved milkweeds. Another favorite that I let place itself is
> Joe Pye weed, and I have had a handsome one in the front bed
> this season. Well, I thought I had another coming along in a
> crack in the front steps. Usually I have Columbine there in the
> spring, and I thought I would let this grow until it got too big.
> As the season advanced it didn't get as big as Joe Pye usually
> does, but I thought it was probably because of the limited space
> it was growing in - really just a crack. Also, it didn't bloom as
> soon as the Joe Pye in the bed, but I told myself that it was
> because it was in more shade. Well, it has finally bloomed,
> very heavily, and it is white! What do I have? and where did it
> come from? I have looked in the wildflower books, and online,
> but nothing matches. It definitely is not Boneset, which is a
> white flower in the same family. It's foliage and growth habit
> is much like the blue Eupatorium coelestinum (some people
> call it perennial Ageratum, which it it not) that I have a nice
> bed of. The bloom is much the same, too, but it is bright
> white. Any ideas?
> Auralie
>
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Pam Evans
Kemp TX
zone 8A

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