Re: Canary Vine
Nina Beheim wrote:
>
> Hmmmmm, sounds promising... YES! It's a WONDERFUL plant! I am anxious
> for my mom to fly up to visit mid July (I'm wondering if I should wait
> for her, or come relieve you of some of those Kent Bells sooner...).
>
> She's bringing me lantana cuttings, some daylillies that have been on
> the family place for roughly 45 years, some crepe myrtle babies (the
> watermelon pink), and some of my dad's four o'clocks that have been in
> that neck of the yard for some 20 odd years.
>
> Funny what sentiment you find in plants, no?
>
> Is the lantana in need of a greenhouse because of the rain, or the cold?
> The winters in Galveston aren't much different from what the almanac
> says we have here, and we get TONS of rain all winter long there. I
> simply must experiment... <grin> The lantana grows wild in east Texas
> also, which gets colder than a well diggers backside.
>
> thanks,
>
> nina
I have no idea why they don't overwinter, but trust me....they don't.
I have one potted, espalliered, root bound speciman in my hobby house.
I like it very much, but ought to put it out of its misery.
I have access to growing it, but when I started this business, I sold at
the local Farmers Market, and I had to practically give it away. It's
funny what people like and don't like. I think that here in the PNW,
people don't know what the plant will do, so they shy away from it.
You're pulling the same thing I did, when I moved to a Gahd-forsaken
state that shall remain nameless (lest I incite that woman from Idaho to
a near riot state *again*), when I had Grandma drag all this Washington
greenery to me. Cripes. Between pH, the goat, sun/shade requirements,
lack of humidity and all else, I should have left it all to rot in
Grandmas' suitcase and spared my back the burden of digging in that
incomprehensible matter the local inhabitants called earth.
(just kiddin, Margaret...)
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