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RE: Emailing: 8-21-09 004

The best I've managed in overwintering a gaura - is over one very mild winter. I've been told lots of snow cover helps, but I don't believe that any more. I'll take any's tricks to make them last more than a season.
I find hardiness a strange thing. The yellow buddleia I got as a gift plant was supposedly a zone 6 tops for hardiness, but it comes back every year. The supposedly zone 4 hardy ones have died - despite being mere yards way. 

Stay safe from the hail.

Chery (the waterlogged)


Here in Georgetown, we've had 2 bad hailstorms and one really bad wind storm.
I'm surprised anything is still standing. Things may be a bit tattered but
they're looking not bad, considering. Hostas here are all really happy if a
bit ragged.



I do have a question about Gauras - love them but in spite of what anyone says
they die each winter. Have tried several varieties in several locations so
I've decided to treat them as an annual.

A friend has told me that the white ones are much hardier. Has anyone had any
experience with them? and which ones?



Lil T.

Georgetown ON

Zone 5


 From: Jeaa0088@aol.com
 Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:22:17 -0400
 Subject: Re: Emailing: 8-21-09 004
 To: perennials@hort.net

 Hi, Chris, Nancy and gang:

 I'm north of Chicago about 35 miles and we've had a lot of rain and not a
 lot of sustained hot weather this summer so the garden looks like it did in
 June...except for some areas of fungus (daylily 'Happy Returns' had to be
 cut to the ground a month ago).

 Hosta went berserk this summer with 'Gold Standard' leading the way and
 even 'Fire and Ice' doing a respectable job; variegated Liriope muscari is
 looking its smartest; Brunnera 'Jack Frost' has had no signs of late summer
 browning or speckling; Epidemiums are super happy (Gene Bush's babies!);
 Geranium 'Rozanne' is still going strong (also Gene's); all lilies did very
 well; variegated Hemerocallis 'Golden Zebra' put on good growth and still is
 in bloom; newer lilacs suffered mightily (our heavy clay held onto all that
 rain) and '08 transplanted Buddleias died but baby Macleaya held on and,
 oddly, the Baptisia did not bloom but have magnificent seed pods.

 The Japanese beetles were here in smaller numbers from mid-July to
 mid-August and did their usual to the roses (but 'Jacqueline du Pre's' aroma

was

 outstanding!) and Weigela but the tomatoes are spectacular if late.

 All in all, a pretty satisfying year and the garden still looks fresh and
 lovely. Mother Nature's rain cannot be
 duplicated with a garden hose.

 How did everyone else's garden fare?

 Joanie Anderson
 35 mi. north of Chicago










 In a message dated 8/26/2009 12:40:39 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
 lindsey@mallorn.com writes:

 > Sorry about the attachment. I finally thought of the name.....Arundo
 donax
 > var. versicolor. I like it in the meadow because it gets me height out
 > there. Great place for the critters to hide from predators. It also in
 > great in large flower designs.

 Well, that settles that! A short thread, but I'm glad to see traffic on
 the list. :)

 How is everyone doing out there? What can I do to get people talking
 again?

 Here in Urbana, IL it feels like fall already. Asters aren't quite
 blooming
 yet, but the temperatures are low, that fall smell is starting to appear,
 and the crickets are chirping away!

 Some of my new favorite plants are getting ready to bloom, too. Allium
 thunbergii 'Ozawa' is an *awesome* plant and I keep trying to get more.
 Although Kalimeris integrifolia and Kalimeris incisa 'Blue Star' have
 already been blooming for a few weeks, Kalimeris yomena 'Shogun' still
 hasn't opened (but it's close!) The asters (like 'Raydon's Favorite')
 are also starting to swell, but there's no color yet! I saw that the
 various turtleheads (Chelone) are also open now.

 Chris

 http://www.hort.net/gallery/ 4383 online plant photos and growing!

 > http://www.hort.net/gallery/date/2009-08-10/ The latest additions


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