RE: Nice combination/YOUR FAVORITE NEW PLANT

Oooh, oooh gaura makes babies?!  I can't wait.

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!


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Barb Tourtillotte [t*@earthlink.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 1999 11:59 AM
> To: perennials@mallorn.com
> Subject: 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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