RE: gaura

My siskiyou pink gaura is leaning on a dwarf aster that is dark purple
(although not yet in bloom).  I actually didn't know it would need the
support, the planting place was happenstance.  But it works!

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: Lynn Lamb [p*@bellsouth.net]
> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 1999 6:12 AM
> To: perennials@mallorn.com
> Subject: Re: gaura
> 
> 
> 
> Hi...I have both the white and pink varieties of gaura in one 
> of my beds
> this year.  After the first bloom sequence I cut it back by about 1/3
> thereby deadheading all spent bloom stalks and it is now 
> blooming for a
> second round.  I like mine, too, but it is very floppy and 
> had to put a ring
> around them.  It seems that this year alot of plants are 
> floppy in my 2nd.
> year garden.  We had to stake the miscanthus varigata...it 
> fell apart in the
> middle.  My artemesia also fell apart in the middle and 
> following the advice
> in *The Well-Tended Perennial Garden* I cut it back by 
> half...hope it comes
> back!  Does anyone have any ideas about this floppiness or is 
> it just the
> way of the plants?
> 
> Lynn Lamb
> Zone 7b
> Belmont, NC
> 
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