Re: brown and green
- Subject: Re: brown and green
- From: E*@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 12:48:39 EST
In a message dated 2/17/03 3:47:37 PM Eastern Standard Time, lwallpe@juno.com
writes:
> Brown in the garden doesn't do a lot for me. I recall a tale about 2
> gardeners discussing one of the N.Z. sedges that was being heralded for
> it's tan color. One asked the other, 'Can you keep it alive?' The
> second gardener replied, 'How would I know?'
To that you may want to add two more new ones. One is completely white and
stays that way for quite a while, looks sickly. The other is a tangled mass
of leaves given the name 'Bad Hair Day'. I have seen and cannot remember
the name of the rusty brown Carex. It attracted a lot of interest though did
not look good in a garden setting. Maybe part of a container grouping. A
Carex that stays alive in our zone is what might be asked of it so we do not
see much Carex here.
To strange plants, add that Rudbeckia with no petals. Widely featured in
catalogs for the last two years.
Claire Peplowski
NYS z4
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