RE: Canary Vine

Maybe I'll just have my mom bring me pictures of the Lantana instead...
<grin>  MUCH easier to care for, don't you think?  

But, the crepe myrtles I  just gotta have ! ha!

BTW - for a minute there, when describing desolate places where nothing
grows, I thought you were talking 'bout Texas.  Too damn hot and humid
to grow much more than moss, daylillies, and oleanders!

neens

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Diana L. Politika [SMTP:diana@olympus.net]
> Sent:	Wednesday, June 17, 1998 6:48 AM
> To:	perennials@mallorn.com
> Subject:	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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