Re: blue mist
- Subject: Re: blue mist
- From: E*@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 12:46:05 EDT
In a message dated 8/31/01 1:18:09 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
mygarden@easystreet.com writes:
<<
Ooooh Claire, please don't tell my Caryopteris it won't survive wet soil
here in rainy Oregon! It doesn't know any better :). I'm with you, I don't
prune in the autumn either. >>
Oh Dear Marilyn,
If yours is doing well, ignore the advice. I have lost the ones I planted in
my moist border area (very rare here, a moist area). They freeze to death in
the winter. The plantings in the dry gritty soil all survive. This is sort
of new information for me.
Like every gardener in the US, many years ago I saw that hedge at Longwood.
The long wide beautiful blue planting made all gardeners try this plant. The
picture was in the the Wayside catalog, Wayside I think, and I lost every
plant purchased until I found they would survive if dry throughout the
winter. Again, we are much colder than you and our rainy periods are
different. For example, a thaw in midwinter and a cold rain can kill a plant
that may have gone into the fall dormant and well drained and soil frozen.
I do hope I have not put a curse on your plants. Here in the East, we have
this belief that you guys can grow anything and we are all green with envy.
Claire Peplowski
NYS z4
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