RE: misc summer notes
- Subject: RE: misc summer notes
- From: M* D*
- Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 21:55:08 -0700
Gosh Judy,
I have "volunteer" poppies and foxgloves blooming all over the place, but
nary a Verbena. But years ago, someone gave me one - only one - wild
Impatiens ("poor man's orchid") and I have had thousands ever since. They
are very sweet though, a pink & white bicolor, ~2' tall and grow beautifully
in dry shade.
Marilyn Dube'
Natural Designs Nursery
Portland, Oregon
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-perennials@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf
Of AWarner
Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 4:20 PM
To: perennials@hort.net
Subject: Re: misc summer notes
My nepeta are amazing too--and I have tons of self seeded verbena in one
bed. I hope they bloom in the same color as the ones I had last year, which
were expensive started annuals--don't remember the name. This year,
thousands!
I have never had either poppies or foxgloves reseed in my garden. I wish I
knew why.
Judy Warner
----- Original Message -----
From: <ECPep@aol.com>
To: <perennials@hort.net>
Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 6:28 PM
Subject: misc summer notes
> In a message dated 6/28/02 1:38:37 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
Meum71@aol.com
> writes:
>
> << The Daylilies look very large this year-so they have loved all the rain
> and
> it looks to be a very good year for them, I am excited about all the new
> ones
> I got last year and expect it to be a good year in regard to daylily
sales.
> >>
>
> Good luck, Paul, on your selling season. If you are as we are, you have
> great big plants from this rain. And, if stops for a few minutes, you
might
> find some customers to sell them to. My niece has told me that customers
do
> not like picking out plants while getting wet. They do mostly shrubbery.
>
> Frank Cooper mentioned this being the difficult season for alpines. I have
a
> grey wooly one dead at the base already because I did not put them under
some
> shelter. I picked up one rotted off completely. For anyone else trying
them,
> mulch with pebbles or grit. It helps. They have to be put under the
house
> overhang or into rocks planted sideways which most people think a bit dumb
> but it works. I have the lewisias, which are blooming exceptionally this
> year, planted that way and have finally stopped losing them.
>
> And for Bill, as for this rain, you can have some of mine if you find a
way
> to claim it. It has rained, hard showers between sunny periods four or
five
> times today and every past day that I can think of as well. I just looked
at
> the weather line on AOL and AOL says that it will rain only one day this
> week. They are already wrong as today has been a soaker.
>
> One should not complain, I suppose, as I have clear memories of the three
> drought years when it did not rain here, those three summers. It is
> discouraging to a gardener either way, too much or too little rain. I had
my
> hair cut today so I knew it would rain some more, sort of like washing the
> car.
>
> Paul and I will send you some rain, Bill, we will will it to you and fix
up
> your drought as we sure can spare some.
>
> Yes- the nepeta - clouds of blue this year. Who would have thought a lot
of
> rain would help them. They are thought of generally as xeric plants.
There
> are also great bunches of foxgloves, one million poppies seedlings and
some
> blooming, some especially good bloom we do not usually see here and there.
I
> would guess the winter here with no below zero weather. I am astonished
at
> some of my plantings this year. However, it could stop raining. <VBG>
>
> Claire Peplowski
> NYS z4
>
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