Re: two new questions - Hebe
- Subject: Re: two new questions - Hebe
- From: "L*@florall.com"
- Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 07:21:28 +0100
I don't know about overwintering Hebe in your climate, but I was interested
to see on a gardening programme a few years ago someone with loads of Hebes
high on a mountain in the Scottish Highlands. They were flourishing. She
said that many Scottish women when they emigrated to the Falkland Islands
(South Atlantic), took cuttings to remind them of home, and they flourish
down there. That's a place with tremendous extremes of temperature.
I've got Hebe Mrs. Winder. It never flowers but is a lovely compact ball -
much like a box ball without having to prune it. I was hoping to take
cuttings this year - have I left it too late? I would love more of these
structural looking plants around the garden. A neighbour also gave me some
trimmings of her large Hebe, don't know variety, and that's made a good bush
now which I've put in a gap in my hedge. That has mauve flowers. I think
they're great plants.
Louise, Surrey, England
> Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 13:52:49 EDT
> From: ECPep@aol.com
> Subject: two new questions
>
> To all the too hot ( and amybe too dry) gardeners this week:
>
> Does anyone here grow Hebes. How far north can you keep a Hebe I bought a
> container plant named Hebe 'Amy'. It is compact, purple leaved and looks
> like a good greenhouse subject for the winter. I have no fantasies about
it
> ever growing outdoors here but thought some of you may have found a way to
> keep this plant or other Hebes over the winter.
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