cupids dart.
- Subject: cupids dart.
- From: M*@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 13:27:32 EST
I still have three hundred plant descriptions to go for this winter and am
thinking that I am making them to long for most people to want to read.
"Cupid's Dart" (kat-a-NAN-ka: se-RU-lee-a) ASTERACEAE. This selection will
bloom the first year from an early sowing and has meduim-dark blue flowers
with darker blue centers. A most useful cut flower for the table or for
drying with tall wiry stems that are held up above low growing silver-cast
woolly foliage. The foliage is long up to 10 inches and thin maybe 1/2 to
3/4 inch wide with a few large teeth and forms a mat over the ground. So they
are best grown by them selves in a cluster of five or more plants, which will
prevent the foliage from being swallowed up under larger plants and put on a
good floral display in the garden. The stems are 2 feet tall and plants put
on a prolific display and respond well to deadheading.
Plants do well in poor, well draining soils in full sun, were they will be
free flowering during July into fall. Short lived over the winter in wet or
heavy soils. The genus name means something to the effect "love Potion" and
they were used in magical potions by ancient Greeks to nab the one that got
away. In flower arrangements it is still use to symbolize love.
Zones 3-9. The species is native from south western Europe including Italy.
As an interesting note-this plant, like many others, illustrates the fact
that you cannot determine the winter hardiness of a plant by the geographic
location that it comes from.
Lightly cover seeds and use F70, germination 7-20 days.
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