Re: Artemesia 'Oriental Limelight'/'Powis Castle'
- Subject: Re: Artemesia 'Oriental Limelight'/'Powis Castle'
- From: D* G*
- Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 11:30:32 -0500
At 10:00 AM 3/24/2002 -0500, you wrote:
Just as a note - Ronnalee's garden in Wiarton is likely a USDA zone 3 or
Canadian zone 4 (maybe a 5a garden if situated very advantageously) - just
to clarify the difference in zones that you may be wondering about. My own
experience with A. 'Powis Castle' is that drainage is the key rather than
cold. Keep it wet during the winter and you kill it. Put it on well
drained soils - ie gravel - and you're fine. Never mulch it - the crowns rot.
Doug
> > A. 'Powis Castle' is a marvelous plant. Not aggressive at all;
> > simply beautiful. I have a few that are several years old and in some
> > spots it doesn't make it through hard winters...think it's a drainage
> > issue tho' I am not sure just how much farther north it is at all
> > hardy. Anybody growing it well in zones 6 and 5?
>
>Goodmorning Marge et al,
>
>In our Zone 5-5b garden it is perennial and does not "romp" all over,
>but does require Spring pruning, which root very readily, by the way.
>
>The bed that houses this artemisia, is well drained and in full sun
>from morning til approx. 5 p.m.
>
>A. Powis Castle:a lovely silver foil for my D. Austen rose, Mary.
>
>Ronnalee in Wiarton, Ontario Canada
>
>
>Ronnalee & Scott Gerow
>rrgcjsg@bmts.com
>
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