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Re: Phlomis

Randy,
Your e-mail to Jane describes several of the pink/purple ones (many of which
like most plants are also found as white). You mention P. alpina which I have
tried from many botanic gardens, but it always turns out to have large tubers
(like P. tuberosa) not string like roots as it should have. Does anyone
believe they have the true P. alpina? I would love it for the collection.
Other purplish ones I would recommend are P. bovei ssp. maroccana and P.
taurica. The first with large showy flowers is relatively easily obtainable
in the UK. Hopefully I can make P. taurica available in a year or two. It
forms a mound of purple flowers about 2 ft. in diameter. When it dies, it
dries up and severs at the base to be blown off complete (like in the old
Westerns, but Soviet style I suppose).
Jim Mann Taylor
United Kingdom
e-mail: Phlomis@aol.com
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