RE: stachys -- and since were on the subject
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: RE: stachys -- and since were on the subject
- From: L*@zeonchemicals.com
- Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 12:03:56 -0400
Gads, Susan, this sounds just like my rose border complete with butterfly
bushes! I have a lavender bush and the white one that both have been
blooming for about two weeks. The yellow one just started the other day.
If you can grow asiatic lilies there, why not expand out the lily season by
growing trumpet and oriental lilies? Asiatics bloom first, then the
trumpets with their wonderful perfume and stature (mine are about 6'), and
then the orientals late in the season that make it worth the wait. I also
have alliums, which seem to like the heavy clay because they multiply
readily. All appreciate other perennials growing at their feet to provide
some shade.
The ones in this particular border include: salvias, veronicas, nepeta
'Six Hills Giant', valerian, russian sage, bee balm, feverfew, campanula,
adenophora (which grows anywhere I put a start -- shade, sun, clay, etc),
echinacea, malvas (which all reseed everywhere), and the phlox 'David' and
'Natasha'. There's also some shasta daisies, yarrow, and lavender. There
are also nine different varieties of roses, none of which are those hybrid
teas. I hate to tell you that I also have mums and iris, but they aren't
thriving like they should. They just sort of hang in there. Bearded iris
are doing better than the Japanese. The mums were a bargain basement
variety bought at a local nursery whose tags said nothing more than "Pink
Mum". I need to add some more fall color, though.
Good luck!
Val in KY\zone 6a
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