Re: Purple cone flowers-witches broom
- Subject: Re: Purple cone flowers-witches broom
- From: y*@kiva.net
- Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 09:23:06 -0500
In response to this posting:
I too have plants that develope malformed green flower
>heads. (In fact one is trying to bloom now and it is 28 degrees). An older
>garden friend, called this witches broom. Her advice is to pull and destroy
>this plant material. It will spread.
>Anyone else see this problem in there coneflowers? Is there a *real* name
>and another suggested *cure* for this abnormality?
I had this formation last year as well as one of my clients. We decided to
let them grow to see if we could cultivate the green. However, the exact
plant we planned to use returned this year as a regular purple cone. No
where near this plant is there any creosote or poles. It is in the middle of
20 perennial specimen beds so there isn't anything unusual.
Peace, Paula
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Zone 5
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