Late Summer Flowers
- To: Mediterranean plant list <medit-plants@ucdavis.edu>
- Subject: Late Summer Flowers
- From: J* S*
- Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 17:35:48 -0700
Hi Nan!
May I second Tim's suggestion regarding asters. My Asters frikartii
'Monch' are glorious, but an odd little aster, A. laevis has been
especially good and doesn't need as much irrigation.
It has slightly smaller yellow-centered flowers on 3 ft. trusses with at
least 100 blooms on each truss.
But the blue glory of the garden now is Salvia guaranitica (the straight
species, not one of the named selections) Vivid electric blue blooms all
through the horrible heat; it never gives up!
Plant grows to about 3 ft. & is 2 ft. wide with upright growth. I bought
it because Betsy Clebsh recommended it and I've never been sorry.
The tall upright Rudbeckia 'Herbstonne' is a buttery yellow, rising 6
ft. out of a sea of salvia.
These deep blue salvia from Judy's Perennials, she calls only Salvia
species. Richard Dufresne kindly sorted it out for me on a previous
post. So now I'm fairly sure it is Salvia scordifolia.
Our mutual friend, Phygelius aequalis 'Yellow Trumpet' is still
contributing and hasn't started ramping about yet. I like it so much, I
planted P. a. 'Devil's Tears', a great reddish apricot colored bloom.
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Jan Smithen, gardening teacher
California Arboretum Foundation
jansmithen@earthlink.net
Sunset zone : 19
USDA zone : 10
Visit the California Arboretum homepage at :
http://www.arboretum.org/
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