Re: Caryopteris
- Subject: Re: Caryopteris
- From: "Marge Talt" m*@hort.net
- Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 05:10:31 -0400
> From: Tiede, Karen E <karen.tiede@eds.com>
> OTOH, I've never had one come back, and I'm at the other end of
Zone 7, 30
> miles south of Raleigh.
----------
Interesting - they ought to do very well for you. Wonder if you're
cutting them back too hard in spring? I had one for several years
that did very nicely until I read some "expert" advice that said you
should cut them back to almost ground level every spring - so I did
and the plant responded by dying immediately. I only lightly prune
my current one and it returns and flowers for me....moral of story,
do not believe everything you read:-)
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@hort.net
Editor: Gardening in Shade
-----------------------------------------------
Current Article: Variegation on the Green Theme - Part One
http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/shade_gardening
------------------------------------------------
Complete Index of Articles by Category and Date
http://mtalt.hort.net/article-index.html
------------------------------------------------
All Suite101.com garden topics :
http://www.suite101.com/topics.cfm/635
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To sign-off this list, send email to majordomo@hort.net with the
message text UNSUBSCRIBE PERENNIALS
