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Re: August is a hard month

Veronicastrum virginicum "alba"  no pests, no disease, behaves,  4 - 5'
tall, it should be staked loosely to stand up under late summer rains. 
It will also provide you with material for dried arrangements.  10 star
plant in my garden.   I have to wait another year to find out for myself
how good Amsonia hubrichtii is -  4 - 5' thread leaf foliage, blue
blossoms in spring. yellow foliage in fall. I have been told it is
excellent.  It did not have any problems with it this  season and it did
not wilt when we had a mini-drought in July.   I put this plant in the
fall of '96.    I will wait patiently.   Huh......    

Sylvia Correia
sacorreia@juno.com
zone 6-southeastern CT,USA

On Wed, 20 Aug 1997 11:55:13 -0700 "McAlpine, Duncan G"
<Duncan.McAlpine@PSS.Boeing.com> writes:
>It is always hard to find a good color border in the month of August. 
>.
>I see splashes of yellow(Black-eyed Susan's) and a light purple of Joe
>Pye Weed.  I need something more dynamic. The Joe Pye weed is a very
>tall background in my border, but I need something else.    I think I
>will move a section Rudbeckia ritida 'Herbstsonne' next to the Joe Pye
>Weed.  I have tried to incorporate Dahlia's for summer color, but the
>slugs and plants seem to get them first.
>
>
>
>What plant in your border are you proud of in the month of August? 
> Is it a shrub or perennial? sun or shade?
>Duncan McAlpine
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