Re: where to start
Hi Bob,
Can't resist - where exactly are you? I grew up in Aurora, sounds like you
can't be far away... I've lived in Vandorf, on top of the Moraine and Port
Perry (actually Scugog Island) - the rocky section of "The Ridge", Whitby and
Oshawa - my family is all in Holland Landing...
Look forward to hearing from (maybe) the old stompin' ground... (You may
have noticed my post of last week re: Richters - it *was* from 1st-hand
experience!)
Cathy
Robert Campbell wrote:
> A difficult question to answer, as neither are named cultivars. The
> Russian sage came from a local nursery and merely carried the genus name.
> It is about 3 ft tall, and is in sandy soil with some organic ammendments (
> I am on sandy glacial deposits that have spent the last 100 years as
> hayfield or front lawn). I guess it should get taller, but it dies back to
> ground level every year, and with our dug well I can't give it supplemental
> water.
> The lavender is one of the "English" lavenders but I dug it up from the
> last house and brought it with along, so it has survived at least 7 years
> with some winters getting down to -32 C. It originally had a Richters tag,
> which makes sense since they are only about 20 minutes from here, but that
> got left behind. Again, some years I mulch it a bit with cedar bark, some
> years I forget. I killed several plants in addition to this one by planting
> them in a spot where they had wet feet in spring, but this one and others
> picked up at garden club plant sales have been doing fine in the main bed
> which is very free draining. We do get dieback but I just wait until early
> may and trim out the dead bits. The plants seem to respond very well to it
> and bloom heavily. I grow them next to some pink Austin roses like Hero,
> where they look particularly nice.
>
> Bob.
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