RE: Rudbeckia 'Cherry Brandy'
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  • Subject: RE: Rudbeckia 'Cherry Brandy'
  • From: l* t* <l*@hotmail.com>
  • Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 13:58:41 -0400
Hi kitty
Sad isn't ir to watch all these things shrivel and give up the ghost? Just have been replacing/amending soil and am in the process of adding mulch. Pardemcanda is worth the try though. Maybe in a slightly sheltered location. Resally have to hope for decent snow cover this winter. Frustrating thing is the Bergenia I got from a friend is healthy and happy, while the "Bach" I paid a fair bit for is busy dying before my very eyes! 
Husband wants to know why I can be up and out in the garden first thing in the morning, while winter calls for 2 or 3 cups of tea before I even begin to move.

Lil T.
Georgetown ON
Zone 5

From: kmrsy@comcast.net
To: perennials@hort.net
Subject: Re: Rudbeckia 'Cherry Brandy'
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 12:53:12 -0500

Nice choices, Lil!
I've always wanted to try a Pardancanda, the colors I've seen are stunning, but zonewise I thought I was a little iffy.  If winters continue being warmer, I'd like to try it.  Bergenia was always struggling for me, rarely flowered, so I gave up on it.
 
Second year has been good for some plants like Phlox p Wendy House - such color!!  But not so good for two of my Huecheras - Marvelous Marbles and Obsidian.  I took them out and potted them up before they gave up altogether.  I've had another Obsidian for years in another spot and we also sold them in MGnursery - always a strong grower, but this one, while it did famously last year was rapidly declining.
 
 
Kitty
neIN, Zone 5
----- Original Message -----
From: l*@hotmail.com
To: p*@hort.net
Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2012 9:23 AM
Subject: RE: Rudbeckia 'Cherry Brandy'

Wow -what a list!!!!
have added a Hellebore "Golden Discovery" as well as an unnamed one,
 variegated solomon seal, couple of heucheras and
 Echinaceia Hot Papaya - its in bloom now -starts out as orange, ends up as this great red w orange undertone.
Oh and Penstemon Blue Buckle
Clematis Henryii, and Alba Luxuriant
two Astilbes are really struggling, Bergenia "Bach" looks like it is about to kick the dust, Hosta Lakeside Looking Glass has one drooping 1 inch leaf, and Aconitum is as sick looking as anything I've ever seen.

Also, was given an unnamed  Pardemcanda couple of years age - sparse bloom last year, this year covered in blooms! Same thing with a Giant Yellow Spider Hemerocallis - truly striking.

Can't remember last time we had rain. Well, got about 8 drops (literally!) last week. Fortunately my newish garden is really small so I've been able to at least keep things mostly watered, but the heat has been a killer.

Lil T
Georgetown ON
Zone 5

> From: kmrsy@comcast.net
> To: perennials@hort.net
> Subject: Re: Rudbeckia 'Cherry Brandy'
> Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 09:48:30 -0500
>
> > What is everyone else growing?
>
> New this year:
> Kalimeris incisa Edo Murasaki
> Monarda bradburiana
> Aruncus Misty Lace
> xHeucherella Solar Eclipse
> Thalictrum Black Stockings
> Echinacea Hot Papaya - wow
> Sedum Lynda Winsor
> Phlox pan Natural Feelings - not feeling well
> Campanula glom Emerald
> Hosta Ice Age Trail
> Hosta Great Arrival
> Gaura Mariposa™ Midnight Pink
> Helenium Dancing Flames
> Lobelia Monet Moment - looking sketchy but blooming
> Centranthus ruber
> Heuchera Sashay - one died, the other looking great
> Penstemon smallii
> Veronica austriaca ssp teucrium Crater Lake Blue
> Lithodora Grace Ward - died
> Centaurea macrocephala
> Heuchera Ginger Ale
> Heuchera Beuajolais
> Heuchera Dark Secret
> Heuchera Kassandra
> Heuchera Sweet Tea
> xHeucherella Redstone Falls
> Amsonia Blue Ice
> Iris cristata TN White
> Heuchera Lime Rickey
> Tomato Chocolate Cherry
> Callistephus Opus - much smaller than expected.
> Epimedium warleyense - still in pot
> Epimedium warleyense Orangekonigin- still in pot
> Gentiana scabra - still in pot
> Napeta racemosa Walkers Low
> Callirhoe involucrata
> Belamcanda Freckle Face
>
>
> Kitty
> neIN, Zone 5
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Christopher P. Lindsey" <lindsey@mallorn.com>
> To: <perennials@hort.net>
> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2012 8:30 PM
> Subject: Re: Rudbeckia 'Cherry Brandy'
>
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> Rudbeckia 'Cherry Brandy' Not as red as in the catalog pictures, but
> >> this one is not in full sun.
> >
> > Hi Don,
> >
> > Very cool!
> >
> > Do you like it? Would you buy/grow it again? Is it as hardy as the
> > species?
> >
> > What is everyone else growing? I have nothing new this year to report,
> > so let me garden vicariously through you! :)
> >
> > Chris
> >
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