Re: everything blooming at once
- Subject: Re: everything blooming at once
- From: "Merri Morgan" m*@wcgnet.net
- Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 08:32:43 -0400
Hm, I wonder if H. 'Moorheim Beauty' would be a July bloomer for me in a
normal year. If so, I still need to move it. As it is, it's really going
to be ugly with the other bloomers this year. That rusty red just won't
work with the stuff in bloom now.
Merri Morgan
Zone 5b, WV
----- Original Message -----
From: "Marilyn Dube" <mygarden@easystreet.com>
To: <perennials@hort.net>
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 5:42 PM
Subject: everything blooming at once
> Merri,
> Here in the Pacific Northwest we blame that phenomenon on the mild
> winter......"it confuses the plants". I had bright orange Oriental
Poppies
> blooming with hot magenta Tulips in my hell strip (gasp!). My Helenium
> 'Moorheim Beauty' (mid July) always blooms before H. 'Feursiegal' (mid
> August), but they are both budding up now. I just tell people I'm color
> blind :).
>
> Marilyn Dube'
> Natural Designs Nursery
> Portland, Oregon
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-perennials@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
Behalf
> Of Merri Morgan
> Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 4:31 AM
> To: perennials@hort.net
> Subject: everything blooming at once
>
> Bloom times really seem to have conflated this year. I have Echinacea
> coming into bloom; Achillea 'Fireland', which has always bloomed in mid
July
> in tandem with a daylily in matching colors, is about to bloom, and
Helenium
> 'Moorheim Beauty', which I put in this year to bloom with Asters, is about
> to bloom. It will be horrible with the present colors in that bed.
> Obviously it all has something to do with the rain, rain, rain, but does
> anyone know exactly what?
> Merri Morgan
> Zone 5b, WV
>
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> Marilyn Dube'
> Natural Designs Nursery
> Portland, Oregon
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