Re: Re Cerinthe retorta
- To: t*@eddy.u-net.com, m*@ucdavis.edu
- Subject: Re: Re Cerinthe retorta
- From: "* B* <s*@hotmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 16:09:32 PDT
Interesting - this makes me wonder if it is indeed C. retorta that you have;
as in my garden the two plants are quite different and people who see C.
retorta for the first time usually ask about it. (C. major purpurascens
became the big hot shot plant around here about 5 years ago.) I grow both
plants in the same conditions and they have quite different habits.
The difference in "going down" times probably has to do with the fact that
Seattle summers are quite dry (contrary to the typical image of wet drippy
weather), while the U.K. gets summer rain and moisture.
My C. retorta and C. major both self-sow but if we get a hard freeze, C.
retorta is much more likely to survive. If it overwinters, it starts
blooming in late March.
Bob
>From: tim@eddy.u-net.com (Tim Longville)
>Reply-To: tim@eddy.u-net.com
>To: medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
>Subject: Re Cerinthe retorta
>Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 16:11:40 GMT
>
>Thanks for info. both from here and from over there! Well, if there's
>a difference, darned if I can, in practice, spot it - and I'm sure it
>means litte if anything in a garden context. Incidentally, re
>flowering times, in this cool moist (northern UK) climate, both C.
>retorta and C. major go on flowering virtually until the autumn (end
>of August to mid Sept, at least). Certainly in Yorkshire 10 days ago
>both species were only just coming into flower - and were at almost
>exactly the same stage of development.
>Tim Longville
>
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