Re: White Flower Farms - a brief visit
- Subject: Re: White Flower Farms - a brief visit
- From: G* B*
- Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 16:46:04 -0400
Hello Al,
I have just this year begin to pay attention to Agastache. So, I do not
know much on the subject. However, from what I can gather reading some
catalogs is quite a few of the species are from the western US which means
they do not like our wet winters. Somewhat like almost all the pretty
Penstemons from the west do not like it here. Quite a few that I have seen
described carry a hardiness rating of zone 6.
I choose one to play with this spring from seed. It is a gold foliage
form of our local native species, so know it is hard and already adapted. A.
foeniculum 'Golden Jubilee" Germinated like water cress, has darn nice gold
foliage and stems, it is to have blue bloom later on in the season. Do not
know if the blooms will happen the first year from seed. Since it has the
gold foliage it is to take a bit of shade to protect the leaves from burn.
There are a couple more species that I saw listed as zone 5.
Do you happen to remember the species listed behind the hybrids you were
looking at?
Gene E. Bush
Munchkin Nursery & Gardens, llc
www.munchkinnursery.com
genebush@munchkinnursery.com
Zone 6/5 Southern Indiana
----- Original Message -----
> Gene,
> I was at Parks Growers Day in June and they had an interesting evening
> primrose called O. kurthiana. It grew short and had bright rose flowers.
> Looked rather interesting.
> They had a lot of agastasches with color ranges of rose through apricot.
I
> don't think they would be hardy in zone 6
> Al Krismer
> Cincinnati
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