Re: Comments on these perennials appreciated - Knautia
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Comments on these perennials appreciated - Knautia
- From: B* C*
- Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 02:16:03 EDT
Those are the annual scabious. I plead guilty to never having tried them but
they do come in a nice assortment of colours, and they are supposed to be
very easy to start in the garden. Up here mixing annuals with tender
perennials that need to be dug up (like dahlias and gladiolas) seems to me
like a remarkably sensible idea. I don't want to disturb my perennials but
usually the annuals will be badly frost damaged by the time I have to dig
the bulbs and corms anyway.
Bob Campbell
USDA 4
>From: Lowery@teamzeon.com
>Reply-To: perennials@mallorn.com
>To: perennials@mallorn.com
>Subject: Re: Comments on these perennials appreciated - Knautia
>Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 09:40:33 -0400
>
>
>Isn't there an annual form of knautia? I can remember growing them when I
>first started gardening because the common name, "pincushion flower",
>intrigued me. I threw out some seed and they grew like weeds. Tall,
>lanky, and weedy-looking as I recall (think cosmos). However, the blooms
>themselves were beautiful. I had an assortment of colors, mostly pastels,
>with a few novelties like burgundy and a near black. In this mix was a
>pure white, which lended itself very well with the burgundy.
>
>Val in KY
>zone 6a
>
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