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Re: Phlomis continued

Ellen,
Someone has promised to send me a plant of Phlomis armeniaca, but I had not
realised that Phlomis angustissima was in cultivation. My quess would be that
both would survive -10 degrees C, providing you look after them during their
first winter outside. I would make a little wigwam of something like leyandii
cuttings round them and then leave them unprotected their second winter and
thereafter. I have another rather similar, but smaller one also from Turkey
called Phlomis linearis. The flower spikes of P. armeniaca and P.
angustissima can reach 60cm. Leaf colour can be grey as well as yellowish.
All three are closely related.
Can you let me have the address of Euroseeds please? 
Jim Mann Taylor
United Kingdom
e-mail: Phlomis@aol.com


<< Jim Mann Taylor (aka Phlomis@aol.com): can you tell us anything about
 Phlomis armeniaca and Phlomis angustissima?  I ordered both of these
 from Euroseeds this year; the first is collected at 1900m on Oyuklu Dag
 in Turkey, and is described as a "very decorative perennial 20-35 cm tall",
 with "clumps of yellow strongly woolly leaves 5-10 cm long, 3-7 of dark
 yellow flowers in dense verticils 2-4 cm long"; the second as similar
 to the first, but with smaller and narrower leaves (collected at 1400m,
 Lake Salda, Turkey).  Do you have any thoughts on the hardiness or
 aesthetics of either of these?
 
 Ellen Hornig >>
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