A new perennial in my garden
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- Subject: A new perennial in my garden
- From: R* C*
- Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 23:55:10 -0400
Today I was down weeding the bed I normally plant with dahlias and gladiolas
about this time of year. I was busily pulling out the usual huge collection
of dandelions, plantains, crab grass and thistles when I noticed something
nestled among them. It was an agapanthus plant, complete with tag still
stuck in the ground. I had not bothered to dig it up and bring it in last
year because it hadn't bothered to flower, and I thought turn about was fair
trade.
We had minimum temperatures here of -27 C ( a warmish winter for us), but
far colder than agapanthus of any species (wouldn't you know that the tag
was broken off just where the scientific nomenclature was supposed to be)
should be able to handle according to my books. There was no snow cover to
speak of at the coldest time of the year, and no mulch over the plant beyond
the inch or so I usually use to keep down the weeds. Pretty strange
survival, isn't it?
Bob Campbell
southern Ontario
USDA 4-normally anyway.
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