Re: CULT: Preemergent
In a message dated 7/15/2006 6:55:33 PM Eastern Standard Time,
jgcrump@cox.net writes:
I have used Preen for 32 years.
I did not realize the stuff had been around that long, Griff. I don't think
I'd ever noticed it in the local trade until the 1990s. Perhaps the company
did a media blitz or repackaged or something.
Some of these useful products are surprizingly longtoothed. I've got
magazines from the 930s with Wilt-pruf ads in them.
The heat is headed for Richmond and I expect you will see it, too. They say
we will have a week of temperatures hovering at 100. Water and the fungi go
wild; don't water and the garden fries. Nothing is happy except my Canna
'Panache,' which lives in a big pot sitting in a basin of water
anyway.Tabboulleh-eating weather, in other words.
Since this sort of extreme moist heat is just everso fabulous for gardening,
I rescued a hydrangea yesterday when I went to the nursery to get a bag of
vermiculite in which to stick a few cuttings. The cultivar is H. paniculata
'The Swan" and it combines the worst plant habits imaginable-- it is both lax
and brittle--with the most heartbreakingly elegant flowers one has ever seen.
Showstopper. Every bit as lovely as 'Panache'. This is my second one.
Cordially,
Anner Whitehead
Richmond VA USA USDA Zone 7--Urban
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