Re: Hot Weather/Gardening style
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Hot Weather/Gardening style
- From: B*@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 00:24:17 EDT
In a message dated 5/10/00 6:01:19 PM Eastern Daylight Time, laura@shadow.org
writes:
<< Valerie, beware of Verbena bonariensis. A lovely purple haze one year is
an
infestation the next. In my late, lamented Kansas garden I planted a single
Vb one year, had the purple haze the next, and I'd still be working on
getting rid of the stuff if we hadn't moved. It is a dangerously
enthusiastic self-sewer. >>
I saw a haze like this last year in a public planting. within it were
multiple plants of one of the newer annual rudbeckias, such as 'Indian
Summer'. Stunning! (those rampant seedlings aren't that hard to pull either)
Bill Lee
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