Re: Red flower recommendation?

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• To: M*@ucdavis.edu
• Subject: Re: Red flower recommendation?
• From: R* D* <s*@nr.infi.net>
• Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 14:16:41 -0500 (EST)

At 09:26 PM 1/25/98 -0700, you wrote:
>Can you all recommend a red-flowering perennial, low water but not
>necessarily drought tolerant, will grow in USDA zone 10b, 11 (sunset zone
>24), upright, from 12 inches to 2 or 3 feet tall?
>
>Nan
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Nan:

Some other long-blooming red perennials would include some of the SW US and
NW Mexican Agastaches and their hybrids:

A. barberi (A. pallida ssp. pallida)            rose          to 2.5 feet
A. rupestris                                         brick red       to 2
feet   
A. mexicana                                             rose           to 4 feet
A. `Firebird'                                         orange-red     to 2.5 feet
A. `Pink Lemonade'                                  rose           to 4 feet
A. `Tutti-Frutti'                                        rose           to 4
feet

The amount of bloom increases as the season progresses.  The materials I
sent Betsy Clebsch about 10 years age were allowed to run rampant around her
garden near her house, and had crossed to give fantastic bushes in all
colors from golden yellow-orange through fuchsia.  Some were big enough to
hide a pro football lineman.  Almost all were a solid mass of 1 to 1.5 inch
flowers when I visited her the last time.  Ginny Hunt got much of her
material from this garden.

Rich Dufresne

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