Re: echinacea

**S* W* <g*@gmail.com>**

For my garden I buy only small pots and plants as it is too hard to dig down
among the rocks and debris left by the former owner, a curmudgeon who never
threw anything away and never picked up anything. Car doors, grease spots,
old plastic bread bags, you name it. Small plants are the survivors in my
garden.

Sally

On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 3:34 PM, Lorraine Ballato <ladygardener@msn.com>wrote:

> My understanding from this discussion is it's not the age of the plant in
> the container but what happens to it once it gets into the consumer's
> garden, regardless of pot age.  If I understand what's been relayed from
> Mssrs. Heims and Avent, the first year this plant is in the ground is when
> it needs to be disbudded and essentially treated as a foliage (snore!!)
> plant. Did I get this right?
>
> Frankly, it sounds to me like these new echinaceas should just be
> sold/treated as annuals since 99.9% of nursery shoppers only want to buy
> plants that are in bloom or are about to bloom themselves silly.
>
> BTW, I just spend about $100 on some of these new echinaceas 'cause I
> thought my beds/borders badly needed some mid-season punch. Let's hope I
> live long enough to see some color now that I'm committed (or maybe I should
> be!). Wish we'd had this discussion about a week ago...
>
>
> Lorraine
>
> Lorraine Ballato
> Grow the best plants you can by converting your containers to self-waterers
> easily and cheaply.  Go to
> http://www.successfulselfwateringcontainers.com/<
> http://www.successfulselfwateringcontainers.com/> to get the full story.
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