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ceratostigma

	I was wondering if Rosemary's three plants of ceratostigma
plumbaginoides (leadwort) were really goners or just late to show . . .
I noticed that the foliage is just now starting to show on mine.
	I had heard that they were hard to grow, but I had the opposite
experience in my former yard anyway.  I had them in a raised bed with
well-drained soil (sharp sand and leaf mold with gravel top-dressing) in
partial shade and they went crazy and spread all over!
	They didn't transplant very well when we moved, so the clump is
very modest now, but I will be keeping my eye on it.  I like them and
they are fairly easy to remove if they become invasive and I do it soon
enough!  The blue color is hard to beat in the fall, for sure.
	Speaking of BLUE, right now, the intensely dark blue of Siberian
irises is a showstopper in my garden.  These clumps transplanted very
well.  Earlier in the year, I caught one of my six felines rushing up to
this one clump and hugging it hard with both his front legs, wrapping
his paws around it.  Of course, GreyFox is a slightly demented animal,
but this behavior was unusual even for him.  Not only did the plant
survive this unexplained activity, but it seems to be extra floriferous
as a result!

Susan Campanini
in east central Illinois
zone 5b, min temp -15F×
e-mail:  campanin@uiuc.edu
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