Re: Echinops
- Subject: Re: Echinops
- From: A* D*
- Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 06:58:17 -0500
In some years, my echinops shrivels & dries from the bottom up, other
years it doesn't. It's not in full sun either. One of my perennial
books mentions this trait and suggests that if it browns, just cut it to
the ground and it will come back. Haven't been brave enough to
experiment with this yet.
Anne - Chicago
Marge Talt wrote:
>
> Hmmm...it's not aphids that my Echinops gets but some kind of leaf
> disease that blackens the lower leaves - and sometimes more - about
> flowering time. Always assumed it was my humid climate and the fact
> that mine are not in full sun that caused it and turned a blind (sort
> of) eye to it.
>
> Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
> mtalt@clark.net
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> > From: Louise <louise@the-english-family.freeserve.co.uk>
> > I've had exactly the same experience. This year, my Echinops ritro
> is
> > flowering beautifully, but has been terribly distorted before. I
> thought
> > last year it was right next to a Philadelphus that is always
> covered in
> > blackfly - well, the Philadelphus is this year but the Echinops
> isn't. But
> > in previous years I have used the hose to shower off the blackfly,
> this year
> > I didn't. Perhaps in the past they just flew straight over to the
> Echinops.
> >
> > Louise, Surrey, England
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