Re: misc summer notes
- Subject: Re: misc summer notes
- From: E*@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 12:42:14 EDT
In a message dated 6/30/02 12:10:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
mygarden@easystreet.com writes:
<< I have "volunteer" poppies and foxgloves blooming all over the place, but
nary a Verbena. >>
I can't grow any verbena. They just die for me or look scrawny and become
brown and dry around the base of the plant. This includes every kind of
verbena except V. bonariensis. There have all kinds for containers and I
have never had one last and bloom through our short season. Now in any
nursery, when I see verbena, I keep on walking.
If you read mystery novels, the only fiction I ever read, Verbenas are part
of the old south and the new south as well. Verbenas are always stuck in
there somewhere. I fancy that if they cross the Mason-Dixon line they just
give up and die. If anyone wants it, I have a website bookmarked somewhere
with a list of mysteries set in the garden.
Claire Peplowski
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