RE: Echinops

Echinops ritro?  

They need full sun in my PNW garden.  As is typical with perennials, they
won't do much the first year.  Thereafter, they will reach full size and
start to bloom about July for me.  I grow them for drying -- they are
wonderful in wreaths and arrangements.  Pick them when they are steel blue
and needle-like in the flower formation.  Once the "needles" begin to open
they turn a beautiful blue, and reseed nicely, but they shatter on drying.

My mature height is about 5'.  They are behind a 'Pilgrim' rose (yellow,
David Austin) with sedum 'Autumn Joy' in the combination.  Great mid-summer
color.

Susan Saxton, zone 6b

For mine is a little old-fashioned garden where the flowers come
together to praise the Lord and teach all who look upon them to do
likewise.
Celia Thaxter

I AM in shape.  ROUND is a shape!


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doreen Knihnicky [k*@mail.med.upenn.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 1999 7:42 AM
> To: perennials@mallorn.com
> Subject: Echinops
> 
> 
> Anyone have experience with this. I ordered it from 
> garden.com. I liked the
> way it looked and loved the color and I have never seen it in 
> my area. I'm
> always more attracted to the unusual. Anyway since I planted it in the
> spring (gets six hours of sun) it hasn't changed, grown, 
> bloomed, or for
> that matter wilted. Anyone know what I might expect. 
> 
> Always hopeful, not knowing what to expect when is exciting, 
> and many times
> worth the wait.
> 
> Doreen
> 
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