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RE: Perfect Pairings

Sheila,

How about a big clump of bronze fennel at the base of your leggy pink rose?? I 
have it in front of an "Eden" rose, and it is quite soft and lovely.

Bettye

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From: 	owner-perennials@mallorn.com on behalf of Sheila Craig
Sent: 	Wednesday, June 11, 1997 8:53 PM
To: 	perennials@mallorn.com
Subject: 	Re: Perfect Pairings

David wrote:

> Hi there!  I'm looking for 'knock out' garden pairs in the garden -
> along the lines of 'ferns and hostas', 'poppies and lupins', 'bamboos
> and maples' and so on...  What are your favourites?

I agree with you about poppies and lupins: I'm enjoying their contrasting
beauties right now!  

Here's a pairing for a different reason: columbines and clematis.  I use
columbines as shade for the roots of my clematis.  They seem to get on very
well together.  Columbine have shallow roots that don't seem to bother the
clematis at all.  Unfortunately in my part of the world, I don't get to see
them in bloom together for very long - the columbines have nearly finished by
the time the Clematis gets going.  David, from your web site address (Swinton)
I guess you are in South-Western England, so you _could_ see them as a
blooming pair.

Does anyone have a good pairing for a large, somewhat leggy pink flowering
floribunda rose that blooms in beautiful profusion in late June (coming up
soon!)???

Sheila Craig
Ottawa, Canada (Zone 4/5)
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Someday I will burst my bud of calm
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