Re: salvia indigo spires
- To: Susan George
- Subject: Re: salvia indigo spires
- From: r*
- Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 08:52:36 -0700 (PDT)
Susan, Sounds like you've described tomato hoops. Here Inexpensive, long
lasting and quite versatile. I use them for staking everything from
snapdragons and sweetpeas to morning glories, etc. Anything, in fact,
that grows floppy. Come to think of it, however, I guess they would not be
particularly sightly if you grow a "designer" garden. Mine isn't so
anything goes (including old plumbing fixtures).
On Sun, 26 Sep 1999, Susan George wrote:
> Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 21:03:35 PDT
> From: Susan George <susan_c_george@hotmail.com>
> To: rsgt@california.com, medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
> Subject: Re: salvia indigo spires
>
> >I have 2 salvia indigo spires and love them dearly. But their habit of
> >flopping, especially the one in the shadier area, doesn't please me. I know
> >that this is a characteristic but I'm wondering if any of you have found a
> >way of pruning that helps. Staking hasn't worked very well either.
> >
> >Barbara - in Berkeley
> >
>
>
> Not me anyway! I grow some amongst lemon trees, tree lupins, phlomis and
> iris - the colour is fantastic - really very intense - but last season they
> sent long stems every where. Not that I have tried it - but I wonder whether
> those 'stakes' fashioned as hoops with three/four legs (don't know if they
> have a proper name)would work? I have seen them at Cruden Farm and Burnley
> Gardens in Melbourne, and they use them in their herbaceous borders for
> larger perennials. I am currently having one made as a trial for my own
> garden - but have never seen them for sale at nurseries.
>
> Susan George
> McCrae, Victoria, Australia
>
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