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re: late summer flowers

Are you sure it is dead?  I have had one for years.  it is very slow to 
come up each spring.  Mine is just emerging now-we've had a very cold 
spring.  But, I don't think it comes up any sooner other years.


Denise Leonard, Zone 5
Tanstaafl Farm
Greenfield, MA
dal@shaysnet.com


On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Rosemary Carlson wrote:

> 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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