Re: Nice combination/YOUR FAVORITE NEW PLANT

Hi Betty,

I agree with the Southern Charm Verbascum - wow, what a show.  Because their
leaves are so broad - making a 'blanket' of such they are great at keeping
down the weeds.  Of course, being the first year I planted these beauties I
intermingled them with latris who are struggling to make their way through the
foilage.  Betty, did you plant anything around the verbascum?  Also, did the
little side flower shoots develop after picking them and putting them in a
vase.  I'm afraid I'll lose them if I use them for arrangements.

Dittos also to guara.  I LOVE this plant.  Mine will probably bloom in about a
week.  I have three huge clumps and lots of babies coming up.


Barb T
Woodinville, WA

moorman@teamzeon.com wrote:

> Betty Moorman@ZEON
> 07/14/99 01:22 PM
>
> 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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