RE: Nice combination/YOUR FAVORITE NEW PLANT

Is the southern charm v. phoeniceum (sp???)  Did you start your's from seed
or plants?

Susan Saxton, zone 6b

For mine is a little old-fashioned garden where the flowers come
together to praise the Lord and teach all who look upon them to do
likewise.
Celia Thaxter

I AM in shape.  ROUND is a shape!


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> From: moorman@teamzeon.com [m*@teamzeon.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 1999 10:22 AM
> To: perennials@mallorn.com
> Subject: RE: Nice combination/YOUR FAVORITE NEW PLANT
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> Betty Moorman@ZEON
> 07/14/99 01:22 PM
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> Two of my new plants that deserve mention are some balloon flowers
> (Mariesi) which were supposed to be blue but are more violet. 
>  They have
> awfully short stems but I believe that's only because they 
> have only been
> in the ground since this spring.  (These are the ones I wrote the list
> about earlier.  I found the stems seal very quickly after 
> they are cut, so
> I now trim the very tip of the stem just before plunging them 
> in water.)
> The color is very intense and once they recover from being picked they
> become quite perky.  The other is Verbascum Southern Charm.  
> They must be
> handled very carefully when you are picking and arranging but 
> once they are
> settled in a vase they have lasted  beyond anything else I 
> have arranged
> them with.  The color variations are interesting and they 
> make a really
> nice filler in an arrangement.
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