Re: Pinching plants
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Pinching plants
- From: A* R* <a*@austx.tandem.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 09:00:54 -0600 (CST)
> perennial salvias?
> Buddlieas?
Dunno about the others, but these are often cut to the *ground* in our
z.8b climate. They are also pinched back (rather more severely than
deadheading) after a bloom cycle -- maybe reduced by half in the salvia
case, a fourth in the buddleia case. We are marginally too hot here for
buddliea (species name escapes me -- the one with Dark Knight, etc.)
and so I do *not* prune them harshly. Buddliea alternifolia and
marrubifolia do much better here.
--
Amy Moseley Rupp (amyr@austx.tandem.com) Austin, TX, USDA z8b, Sunset z30
Amy Moseley (amy@ece.utexas.edu) Graduate Student in Software Engineering
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