Re: Euphorbia; purple and yellow
I've started store-bought seed of Euphorbia wallichii and E.
polychroma (syn. E. epithymoides), no special treatment. (The E.
wallichii didn't make it through the winter; it's iffy in zone 6 and
there's lot of winter wet in my garden.)
My garden is admittedly a jumble; I choose from a wish list of
not-so-common perennials and they get planted wherever there's a little
space. Today, though, I walked out and saw a serendipitous combination:
Phlox stolonifera (Creeping phlox) 'Sherwood Purple' with Doronicum
magnificum (Leopard's bane) growing up through it. Generally I'm not
keen on yellow flowers unless they're a very light yellow like Coreopsis
'Moonbeam', but the the phlox toned down the sock-it-in-your-eye yellow.
The doronicum flowers have lots of thin petals and are not that high, so
they don't dominate.
Janet
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