Re: misc summer notes
- Subject: Re: misc summer notes
- From: A*
- Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 04:28:11 -0400
Brown and dry and dying is what the bought plants this spring are doing.
But the self seeded are green and beautiful. I think they were a special
verbena, new variety, as I remember paying more than usual for the six
packs. Judy
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From: <ECPep@aol.com>
To: <perennials@hort.net>
Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2002 12:42 PM
Subject: Re: misc summer notes
> In a message dated 6/30/02 12:10:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> mygarden@easystreet.com writes:
>
> << I have "volunteer" poppies and foxgloves blooming all over the place,
but
> nary a Verbena. >>
>
> I can't grow any verbena. They just die for me or look scrawny and become
> brown and dry around the base of the plant. This includes every kind of
> verbena except V. bonariensis. There have all kinds for containers and I
> have never had one last and bloom through our short season. Now in any
> nursery, when I see verbena, I keep on walking.
>
> If you read mystery novels, the only fiction I ever read, Verbenas are
part
> of the old south and the new south as well. Verbenas are always stuck in
> there somewhere. I fancy that if they cross the Mason-Dixon line they
just
> give up and die. If anyone wants it, I have a website bookmarked
somewhere
> with a list of mysteries set in the garden.
>
> Claire Peplowski
>
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