RE: Agastache, was 'seedlings'
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- Subject: RE: Agastache, was 'seedlings'
- From: S* S*
- Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 09:37:10 -0700
Do they bloom first year from seed for you?
We had a wetter than normal winter this year and I lost Pink Panther and
Apricot Sunrise -- both really beautiful. I have lost the Blue Fortune
before, too -- probably the wet again. I have ordered a. rupestris from
Highland this year and will try it out in my west facing sloped bed -- but
the Blue Fortune was there before too and has died. I love them too, the
Apricot Sunrise particularly, so I think I will try amending the whole with
1/3 compost, 1/3 pea gravel and 1/3 backfill and see if that helps.
Anyone have experience with these plants doing this?
Susan Saxton, zone 6b
For mine is just a little old fashioned garden where the
flowers come together to praise the Lord and teach all
who look upon them to do likewise.
Celia Thaxter
I AM in shape. ROUND is a shape!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mert & Holly Kilpatrick [k*@epix.net]
> Sent: Friday, April 09, 1999 2:04 PM
> To: perennials@mallorn.com
> Subject: Agastache, was 'seedlings'
>
>
> I had good luck last year starting several agastache's from
> seed: Heather
> Queen, Carlile Carmen, and I also have some wonderful A.
> foeniculum "Blue
> Fortune' (purchased plants). This year I am also starting A.
> rugosa and
> several others - we'll see how they work out. I also had
> plants last year
> of Pink Panther and Fire-something (I don't have it in front
> of me now.) I
> love Agastache. I think my favorite of the tender ones is
> Heather Queen,
> but the Blue Fortune, which is hardy, is excellent - abaout 3
> ft., needs
> string and stakes for me, and has a great scent and the bees
> go nuts over
> it. I ordered a couple more from High Country nursery this
> year, also.
>
> By the way, how do you all pronounce it? I saw, somewhere,
> "Ah-gast-a-key"
> with the accent on the 2nd syllable, so that's what I use.
> But the other
> day I heard a nursery owner pronounce it "Ag-a-stach".
>
> Holly
> East Bangor, PA, Zone 6
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Saxton, Susan <SSaxton@Schwabe.com>
> To: 'perennials@mallorn.com' <perennials@mallorn.com>
> Date: Friday, April 09, 1999 3:41 PM
> Subject: RE: seedlings
>
>
> >Which agastache? I've often considered starting them from seed...
> >
> >Susan Saxton, zone 6b
> >For mine is just a little old fashioned garden where the
> >flowers come together to praise the Lord and teach all
> >who look upon them to do likewise.
> >Celia Thaxter
> >
> >I AM in shape. ROUND is a shape!
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Nancy Lowe [n*@hotmail.com]
> >> Sent: Thursday, April 08, 1999 8:22 PM
> >> To: perennials@mallorn.com
> >> Subject: seedlings
> >>
> >>
> >> Okay folks. I planted my perennial seeds, now what?
> >>
> >> I planted them in six-packs, and most of them are up. I've
> >> been told that they should go into a "nursery bed" for the
> >> first year, but I really don't have a good place to do that.
> >> Would it be better to go ahead and put them out in their
> >> intended spots, or put them up into bigger pots and hold them
> >> until next year? Should I wait until they are somewhat
> >> rootbound in their little pots to mess with them?
> >>
> >> Germination has been interesting. Has ranged from nearly
> >> 100% (agastache) to about 5% (one digitalis variety). I'm
> >> wondering whether some of them just haven't come up yet
> >> (supposed to be "slow and erratic") or if I should replant.
> >>
> >> Today, I saw the first blooms on our Zepherine Drouhin roses.
> >> My dogwood is in bloom, along with bletilla, late daffodils
> >> and tulips, wood hyacinths...the iris and hyacinths are about
> >> done. I believe spring is here!!
> >>
> >> Nancy Lowe
> >> Arkansas, zone 7
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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