Re: Aster
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- Subject: Re: Aster
- From: K* W*
- Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 19:41:07 -0400
on 2/2/01 7:28 PM, Meum71@aol.com at Meum71@aol.com wrote:
> Just got a new shipment of seeds in and one was listed as Aster alpinus
> 'Dunkle schone' can any one translate that for me?
"Dunkle schone" should, I believe have an "umlaut" (two dots) over the "o"
and would translate from the German roughly as "beautiful dark one"..I
assume it is a deep blue or deep purple cultivar.
> Also received Symphyandra zanzegur-any one want to describe it and rate its
> garden performance?
Symphyandra zangezura is named after the Zangezur mountains in eastern
Armenia (Caucasus). The Flora of Russia notes it growing in rock crevices,
gorges and cliffs in forest and subalpine zones. Has unusual and beautiful
geranium-like foliage, unlike other members of this genus that I have grown.
To 15cm at most with 2" lavender bells blooming from the tips of long,
slender stems. Biennial or monocarpic, but self sows reliably here in Zone
4. I know it is growing in many Zone 3 gardens from here to Alaska. A really
outstanding and long blooming member of the Campanulaceae family.
Kristl
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Kristl Walek
Gardens North Seeds
5984 Third Line Road, North
North Gower, Ontario
K0A 2T0
CANADA
Phone: (613) 489-0065
Fax: (613) 489-1208
www.gardensnorth.com
(Zone 4b -29 to -34C)
So many species....so little time
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