RE: Verbena bonariensis
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- Subject: RE: Verbena bonariensis
- From: V* M*
- Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 21:48:07 +0100
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Hi Bill,
My V. bonariensis grow to about 6 foot, stalky, elongated dark green leaves.
Saw them for the first time at Beth Chatto's garden, where she had
underplanted them with a low growing purple verbena. I am not a tidy
gardener, and generally let my flowers go to seed. I don't put down a winter
mulch either. Sedums, teasels, evening primrose, alchemilla mollis,
digitalis, rudbeckia, cowslip, etc., etc., re-seed prolifically for me, but
not V. bonariensis. Neither do hellebores nor hostas, which I know do
self-seed for other people. The V.b's I had in last year are coming up
well, but the only seedlings I have are the ones I have sown in trays taken
from some dead heads I cut off at the end of last year.
I understand that they almost have weed status in Oregon (U.S.): lucky
Oregon.
Valerie, Sth Yorks, England, Zone 8.
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Sent: 11 May 2000 16:16
To: perennials@mallorn.com
Subject: 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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