Re: Aster
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Aster
- From: M*@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 03:52:17 EST
In a message dated 02/02/2001 11:02:45 PM Central Standard Time,
kristl@magma.ca writes:
<< 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, thank you for your very useful answer. I have grown Symphyandra
hofmannii and find it interesting and monocarpic too. One year I tried to
keep all the spent flowers picked off to see if I could get the plants to
live longer-The effort was not worth the results. Plants in this genus
produce lots of flowers and I have always liked the pictures of the blue
species.
So when you said they were hardy, I am excited about growing a few plants. I
also have Symhyandra pendula, and am going to give it a try this year too.
Again thank you Kristl for your very informative response to my questions.
I wonder if the other species would be hardy too?
I like most all of the plants in Campanulaceae and wish I could get more
members of Adenophora too. ( We will see what happens when the Rock garden
seeds come)
Paul
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