Rose campion/snow-in-summer





Valerie Lowery@ZEON
12/02/98 08:22 AM

I've been wanting to grow rose campion (lychnis coronaria) and
snow-in-summer (????-- not to be confused with snow-on-the-mountain,
though) for the longest.  Both have the marvelous fuzzy leaves and grayish
overcast.  Every year I try them and the darned things just sit there and
eventually shrivel away.  I've tried them in different locations, in sun or
shade, watering and leaving to drought, etc. -- all to no avail.

The only thing I can figure is that the humidity must get to them because I
have trouble with one species of lamb's ear rotting away before my eyes
every year, too.  It's not pretty and it draws those foul pillbugs!  I
ripped them out and let another variety take over (I forget what it is, but
it doesn't mind the summers here).  Am I doomed to lust for the gaudy
magenta of the rose campion and the sweet little white buttons of the
snow-in-summer?  Again I pout because the very things I want I cannot have
and the list grows bigger and more interesting, unfortunately.  The
fuzzy-leaf saga continues with a disturbing trend...

Has anyone in zone 6a tried growing these two plants?  Anyone with high
humidity and temps in the summer have luck? And (whine, whine) why won't
fuzzy-leaved plants grow well for me?

Val in KY
(who's finally realizing that no one on earth lusts for the plants that can
grow in a KY garden)


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