RE: Help identifying a spring bloomer

Good morning Gene, Marge and Everyone,

	What excellent combinations in Gene's message - need to try some of those!

 But while I am rearranging my woodland garden, I have a burning
question......
 I have a sweet little perennial that has seeded around and made some
identical offspring.  I am delighted with it and would like to add it to my
catalog - just one problem - I've lost the tag and am having a major brain
cramp.  I hope someone on this list will be able to ID it for me.  It has
small, round, very dark purple leaves.  Overall size is  - maybe 6 inches
across x 3-4 inches tall in bloom.  It has BRIGHT yellow ray flowers.
Cultivar name is 'Brazen Hussy' (can't forget a name like that).  I know we
discussed it a couple of years ago on this list, that was why I bought it.
I considered doing a  Google search for 'Brazen Hussy', but decided I'm
probably not ready for the results I'd get!

Marilyn Dube'
Natural Designs Nursery
Portland, Oregon


-----Original Message-----
From:	owner-perennials@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf
Of Gene Bush
Sent:	Thursday, April 04, 2002 4:32 AM
To:	perennials@hort.net
Subject:	Re: Help identifying hellebores?/ companion plants

Hello Marge,
    I am in agreement about the dark color blooms of helleborus... they
definitely need to be place close to the path where they will show up. I
have 3 of the slate/dark blue I grew from seed some years back. they are in
a raised bed next to a path. Last fall I went back and transplanted Phlox
stolonifera 'Ariane'. This cultivar has exceptionally large flowers of white
with a yellow eye over ground hugging bright green foliage. Will not come
into bloom until about half-way through the bloom cycle of the hellebore.
Above this level there is an oak leaf hydrangea and I used a blue flowering
form of phlox stolonifera there with arisaema, columbine and hepatica.
    With my dark reds I am using primula veris in drifts. With some of the
species that are green/ purple flowering I am using Phlox divaricata for a
more "natural" or casual effect. Here again, there are several cultivars
with different color blooms and varying fragrance.
    Gene E. Bush

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