was artemesia, now Stella

In a message dated 7/18/02 8:41:58 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
OXFORDWALT@aol.com writes:

<< Artemisia 'Craig Barber's Eye'.  Put it in the middle of an oval bed of 
 "Stellas ( a plant I grow but do not like)  >>

I like Stella though you will be formally thrown out of any daylily group for 
massive lack of good taste if you grow this plant.(GRIN)

If if fits the location, Walter, grow all you want.    We have it growing 
with no help from us, none whatever, in several places on the farm where it 
can compete with native plants, i.e., grasses and weeds.  Siberian irises can 
also live in a field and compete successfully, not hybrids, the familiar sort 
seen on old properties.

We got Stella in the shrubbery by yanking it out, putting it in the compost 
and finding it all over the place two years later.

Actually, a plant with this vigor and reblooming ability should not be given 
such short shrift.  On a tour, yesterday, which was not a good day for a tour 
(HOT), to the garden of Elsa Bakalar (author) we also visited Olallie Daylily 
Farm.

Olallie is the summer home the Dr. ?  Darrow who delveloped nearly all of the 
blueberries we grow and was director of the National Arboretum.  His grandson 
continues the daylily farm and they sell, yes sell, Stella by the thousands.  
This is known by gardeners to be a very reliable plant.

An interesting deer deterrent is used here.  The farm is in southern Vermont 
and has few neighbors so four or five Border Collie dogs run freely through 
the nursery at all times.  You can be looking around an meet up with one 
anywhere.  After you become accustomed to this, it is OK.  In the beginning 
it can be disconcerting.  That farm is acres of plants, dug to order on the 
site, so the dogs must do the job.  Also for anyone reading this from zone 4, 
the plants sold here are all zone 4 plants.  They do mail order and have a 
website.

Claire Peplowski
NYS z4

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