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re: late summer flowers

For late, LATE summer (fall), Japanese anemone - which I love. Just as a
point of interest - I lost ONE perennial in this past winter. Guess I was
lucky. But, I lost 3 of the same thing - and they are supposed to be hardy
here in zone 6. One of the perennials Susan mentions here - the plumbago
which I LOVED! 

Any idea why it may have bit the dust?

Rosemary in Lexington, KY
zone 6 


At 09:11 PM 6/2/97 +0000, you wrote:
>For late summer flowers, consider Helenium with its tall composite
>(daisy-like) blooms of yellow, orange, and mahogany tapestry.  Also, the
>Boltonia is a tall late white (also in pink) aster with zillions of airy
>tiny daisy blooms.  The Chrysanthemum pacificum (being renamed now, I
>think) doesn't bloom until October in zone 5b with tiny bright yellow
>buttons.  A late bloomer for partial shade is the toad lilies,
>Tricyrtis, in yellow or white with lavender spots. The creeping
>leadwort, Cerastostigma plumbaginoides, is a very nice strong blue at a
>time when most blues are finished.  I know I'll think of more as soon as
>I post this . . .
>
>Susan Campanini
>in east central Illinois
>zone 5b, min temp -15F×
>e-mail:  campanin@uiuc.edu
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