RE: Long Blooming Perennials For Sun

At 09:47 AM 06/19/2000 -0700, Susan Saxton wrote:
>Scabiosa 'Butterfly Blue' is NOT your typical scabiosa.  Didn't it win some
>awards -- someone out there help me out.  It is shorter, about 12-18", with
>small flowers, about 2", and is a "heavenly" shade of blue.  It literally
>never quits in my zone 6b Oregon garden.  Do others in different locations
>have a different experience with this plant?>>

We have overwintered Scabiosa "Butterfly Blue" very successfully.  We chose
it based on it being an award-winner, among other things.  This spring we
had to move the plants and they didn't mind...in fact a week ago they began
to bloom and are full of blooms right now.  I cut back the dead flowers (at
the base of the stem) regularly, which helps them bloom all summer.  Placed
in front of white shastas (also blooming now) it is very soft and frothy,
and we have had excellent luck with it.

Georgia
Bob & Georgia Parker
gardening in Foxborough MA - Zone 6
a*@ici.net

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