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Re: knautia macedonica

In answer to the question at the end about dark wine red flowers, I have a
monarda (bee balm) called mahogany that is a very dark red and it's just
beginning to bloom now. 

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Diane S. Rice          drice@doe.state.in.us
Indianapolis, IN       Zone 5b

On Wed, 25 Jun 1997, Kristl Walek wrote:
> I operate a seedhouse in Ontario, Canada, Z4. Knautia macedonica has 
> been a stock plant of ours for many, many years in both the garden and 
> our catalogue. It grows happily in our nursery-seed-production area 
> (cut out of a 4 acre open meadow)  in full, baking sun. Soil is hard 
> packed grey clay (unimproved). The kind you make pots out of. 
> 
> It is being grown by many of my customers in Zone 3.
> 
> I have grown it in many other locations over the years, including part 
> shade in very rich, loamy, moist, well-drained soil. Quite frankly I 
> have not noticed a difference in longevity or performance. The foliage 
> (which is this plants' main drawback) is unfortunately lusher in part 
> shade. Ideally, plant it with something in foreground to disguise the 
> unattractive foliage and unruly habit of this beauty.
> 
> I was originally drawn to this plant because of its unique deep rich 
> maroon colour- a colour in perennials I have sought out actively over 
> the years- so far it appears to be rarer than true blues. I have only 
> found a few others: Sanguisorba menziesii (an Alaskan native & a 
> beauty), Potentilla thurberi (very dusky wine red), some forms of 
> Pulsatilla vulgaris rubra, a few Clematis cultivars, Melica altissima 
> 'atropurpurea' (a grass with showy panicles of maroon), gorgeous when 
> underplanted with Heuchera 'Palace Purple'....but this gets on to the 
> subject of maroon/purple foliage--of which there are many. What other 
> perennials are folks growing with maroon (not purple) flowers? 
> 
> Kristl Walek
> Gardens North
> Z4, Ontario, Canada
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