RE: Hot Weather/Gardening style
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- Subject: RE: Hot Weather/Gardening style
- From: M* D*
- Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 15:10:36 -0700
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Mary, If you like green flowers, you might want to try Nicotiana
langsdorfii for its beautiful lime green "hangy-down" bells (don't you love
my botanical latin descriptive terms?) all summer/fall. The leaves look
like N. sylvestris - kind of furry and sticky at the same time, but not as
large.
Marilyn
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From: owner-perennials@mallorn.com [owner-perennials@mallorn.com] On
Behalf Of Mary R Wills
Sent: Friday, May 12, 2000 10:57 AM
To: perennials@mallorn.com
Subject: Re: Hot Weather/Gardening style
Val,
That's one thing I've learned here and am trying to incorporate now--
nice foliage. I bet yours is beautiful. Do you have problems with silver
foliage in your humidity? That's a problem here.
Yes, green zinnias. Have a package of "Envy" ready to sow. (I also put in
some Armeria "Vindictive" this spring... hope this isn't a trend in plant
names!) Will try the "Envy" with the pink and purple, good idea.
I forgot about the dahlias, grow plenty of those, and glads too for cut
flowers. But, I cannot warm up to dahlias as a garden plant-- the bush
seems exceedingly ugly, I grow them for the flowers and the fact that
they start blooming in August. Makes up for the bush.
That's a useful list of hot summer perennials. Will check out the
adenophora for sure.
Mary
zone 6 MO
my summers here are very hot and humid with little reliable
> rainfall. I
> plant things that are very drought-tolerant and rely heavily on
> foliage. I
> purposely planned for this very thing by interspersing dark foliaged
> plants
> along the borders and those with silver to break up the long
> expanses of
> green. I use some variegated foliage, but not much because it can
> make
> some things look jumbled.
>
> I use annuals, too. They love the heat around here (don't you just
> love
> those green zinnias? They look great with hot pink and purple).
> Don't
> forget about using bulbs and tubers. Because they have their own
> little
> food factory in those large roots, they get along just fine in the
> dog days
> of summer. I like dahlias, cannas, and lilies. Some perennials
> that
> trudge along just fine in the heat in July in my yard:
>
> rudbeckia
> echinacea
> monarda
> salvia
> achillea
> hollyhocks
> anthemis (especially 'kelwayi')
> veronica
> yucca (I don't think anything could kill this except for a nuclear
> bomb)
> phlox paniculata, carolina, or maculata (I've got some of each and I
> love
> them all)
> kniphofia
> heliopsis
> coreopsis
> adenophora (which should be used by everyone who wants a
> heat-tolerant
> campanula look-alike)
> globe thistle
>
> Val in KY
>
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