RE: Angelica gigas
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: RE: Angelica gigas
- From: S*@schwabe.com
- Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 15:09:03 -0700
Does it seed about enough and grow like foxglove so that you can always have
some ready to bloom each year?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: manytimes@anet.com [m*@anet.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 5:10 PM
> To: Saxton, Susan
> Subject: Re: Angelica gigas; eupatorium 'Gateway'
>
>
> From: <SSaxton@schwabe.com>
>
>
> > Saw these on a garden show recently. I thought a. gigas
> was a biennial
> > (somewhere in my pea brain) but this person from Canada was
> saying her plant
> > had survived two winters. Any comments?
>
> A. gigas is monocarpic, and like many biennials,
> Onopordum acanthium, for example, the plant
> may take two years of development, thence to
> flower in the third. It is still a biennial under
> ideal conditions. Clearly, a biennial which is not
> happy enough to flower and die in two years
> deserves the opportunity to do so later on.
>
> Prevent the plant from flowering, and you should
> be able to prolong the life for several years, as is
> standard practice with some biennials with
> interesting foliage, Salvia argentea, for example.
>
> manytimes
> tom
> zone 5a, NE Illinois, USA, -21ºF Minimum
> http://www.anet-chi.com/~manytimes/
> (\ Seed germination is my game, /)
> {:|}{|||}---------------------------------------------{|||}{|:}
> (/ but bumblebees are my aim. \)
>
>
>
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