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Re: Bleeding hearts, pinching perennials

> Your Salvias, Buddleias, Monarda can be cut back ad infinitum (although it
> will delay blooming, always a dilemma). If you have problems with RSM,
> sometimes cutting back the plants scombined with Safer's soap will solve
> the problem. I would be reluctant to cut back the Asclepias, though, since
> they tend to have one major flush of bloom and then set seed and senesce
> (at least the wild ones do).

But if they were effectively deadheaded, and not allowed to set seed,
would they rebloom?  Or is this one of the few things that will not
respond to deadheading?

BTW, I bet senesce and senile derive from the same root :-)

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Amy Moseley Rupp
amyr@austx.tandem.com, Austin, TX, USDA zone 8b, Sunset zone 30
*or* amyr@mpd.tandem.com
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