Re: Verbena bonariensis

In a message dated 5/11/00 10:56:46 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
valerie-anne@lineone.net writes:

<< What am I doing wrong?   Why won't they self-seed for me? :-(. >>

It's amazing to hear that they (verbena bonariensis) won't self-seed for 
someone.  Are we talking about the same plant?  This is a stalky plant, 
3-feet high.  Do you let your flower heads ripen?  Leave the plant up all 
winter.  Try cutting off some of the dead flower heads once they've dried and 
shred them up around the garden.  My friend Linda Wallpe says that one year 
the plants of this I gave her apparently shed some seed as she carried them 
from her car to her house because she had plants come up in the gravel drive 
the next year.  Do you put down a lot of winter mulch or top dress?  If so, 
maybe the seed gets buried too deep.

In Cincinnati (Z6a) we had a mild winter and an early spring.  Most of the 
v.b. I didn't pull out last fall has come back from the roots, plus lots of 
seedlings are also now beginning to appear.  
Bill Lee

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