Re: Help to ID "September" flower
- To: MeditPlants
- Subject: Re: Help to ID "September" flower
- From: J* S*
- Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 14:33:16 -0700
- References: <397BC4C2.F1697EAD@pacbell.net>
Wendy Bradley wrote:
> Fellow Medits--I stopped by a "bucket" seller of cut flowers the other
> day and bought a bouquet of something she called "September" flower. It
> has about 3-ft stems with lots of narrow, smooth, pointed little leaves,
> lots of short little branches about 1-3 in long, and lots of little pale
> pinky-lavender, daisy-like flowers, 2 layers of petals around a yellow
> center, about 3/4-1 in across. It looks like Michaelmas daisies only it
> doesn't have threadlike petals or rays, more like marguerite type
> flowers, a bit like a Boltonia decurrens...you get the idea? Anybody
> know what it is? TIA. Wendy
>
> PS--Trevor Nottle and William Grant, I enjoyed reading your book reviews
> in my latest issue of Pacific Horticulture! Another reminder of how
> privileged I feel as a fledgling gardener to listen in on this group
> with such learned, expert contributors!
Hi Wendy,
Your little "September weed" sounds like Aster ericoides as that is the
small flowered aster with pinky-lavender flowers. What is called "September
weed" by Southern Calif. cut flower growers is usually the white flowered
Aster pringlei 'Monte Casino'.
Both are easy to grow in your own garden. Available from several mail order
nurseries. One of my favorites:
Canyon Creek Nursery
3527 Dry Creek Road
Oroville, CA 95965 916-533-2166
Jan
PS I agree wholeheartedly with you about Trevor Nottle, Bill Grant. They
are really good to read.
Watch for another couple of our expert Medit Plant List members: Nick
Turland and Alessandra Vinciguerra. They will be speaking at the upcoming
seminar(s) Gardening Under Mediterranean Skies at the Strybing Arboretum
and Los Angeles County Arboretum this fall.
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Jan Smithen,
Upland, California
jansmithen@earthlink.net
Sunset zone : 19
USDA zone : 10
http://home.earthlink.net/~jansmithen/
Visit the Los Angeles County Arboretum
Victorian Rose Garden website at:
http://victorian-rose.org/
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