Re: Nice combination/YOUR FAVORITE NEW PLANT





Betty Moorman@ZEON
07/14/99 03:54 PM






turtlo@earthlink.net on 07/14/99 02:59:22 PM

Please respond to perennials@mallorn.com

To:   perennials@mallorn.com
cc:    (bcc: Betty Moorman/Zeon)
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?
/ Two are not very close to anything. I try to do that with new plants
because you never know how much elbow room they'll need.   The third I
planted a little too close to my butterfly bush but it doesn't seem to be
hurting.  It's growing and blooming very nicely but I believe its proximity
to the butterfly bush will stunt its growth, at least to a certain extent.

  Also, did the
little side flower shoots develop after picking them and putting them in a
vase.
/ Some of them will.  I try to let them stay on the plant until most of the
little flowers have bloomed out because, as you say, you don't want to not
give them their chance to bloom.  Another tiny detail I forgot in my
original post is the way they twist and turn after they're arranged.  I
suppose they're following the light.  Adds a touch of whimsy to a bouquet.

 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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