Re: Re: [OT] Perennials that fit in and play nice?
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- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] Re: [OT] Perennials that fit in and play nice?
- From: d*@dynamicro.on.ca
- Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 06:24:31 -0400 (EDT)
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On Tue, 19 Sep 2000 Rascalbob13@cs.com wrote:
> I would like to suggest that you try a perrennial called Mirabilis (I
> probably don't have that spelled right). They are a perrennial that doesn't
> start to come up until late April or early May. They start blooming sometime
> in late June and stay until after several heavy frosts in the fall. They are
> interesting in that they open from "dusk to dawn" and close up during the
> daylight. I'd put a few tiny rhizomes in my mainly bulb bed until they were
> big enough to move (still haven't done that) and they've coexisted nicely for
> a couple of years. I'd originally bought the Mirabilis to fill in the box
> and hide the dying, reabsorbing bulb plant matter until the glads came up.
> They do the job very nicely and do seem to gather a great deal of comment
> because of the opposite to normal opening time for the flowers, but the plant
> foliage is okay by itself, too. Donna zone 7 NJ
Donna, what species of iris is this MIRABILIS? Any idea if it is hardy
in zone 5? I assume it is an iris. TIA
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Diana Louis <dlouis@dynamicro.on.ca>
Zone 4/5 Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
AIS, CIS, SIGNA, Iris-talk, Canadian Wildflower Soc.
