Re: Hosta Flowers-------The Horse Is Not Quite Dead
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- Subject: Re: Hosta Flowers-------The Horse Is Not Quite Dead
- From: "* E* T* <t*@mail.atl.bellsouth.net>
- Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 16:40:26 -0500
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This might be the first time I've ever contributed to this list but Plantiginea is
the first to come up in the Spring down south, and always gets burned from the
cold and/or heat. The flowers are worth the trouble even if the plants look kinda
bad at times. One of mine had flowers almost the size of Easter Lilies this year.
Just wanted to share my opinion.
Tom
> In a message dated 10/17/1998 1:12:51 PM Central Daylight Time,
> rbcamp@neptune.on.ca writes:
>
> << As for me, I will be scouring our local plant sales this spring looking for
> more $2 divisions of plantiginea since I have nothing, including the plants
> you suggested, that flowers so spectacularly in partial shade. >>
> ******************************************************************************
> Bob,
> You might also try H. 'Piedmont Gold' . The orthodoxy was that PG HAD to be
> grown in shade; however, it does better in "partial sun." AND, I have seen it
> in bloom with flowers that are 5" in diameter, in situations where it received
> a lot of sun.
>
> Clyde Crockett z5
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