Re: in bloom now?
- Subject: Re: in bloom now?
- From: G*
- Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 08:03:05 -0400
Hello Susan,
Which cultivar of the Astrantia do you have in bloom? How long have you grown
them in your garden? Are you doing the cut flower thing with them... experience?
do they give you second flushes of bloom after a deadheading? What are you using
as companion plants? (so many questions) Do not know exactly why, but I find these
odd flowers quite fascinating. My first year with A. "Shaggy", "Hadspen Blood",
"Ruby Wedding", "Sunningdale Variegated" and the species.
Lots of good stuff in bloom here now, but the one that gets my eye the most
now is "Wormroot/ Indian Pink" or Spigelia. Great foliage on stiffly upright
stems, blooms of fire-engine red shaped like inflated tubes with a fuchsia star
sitting on top of the tube. Now that is color... and a native to boot.
Gene Bush Southern Indiana Zone 6a Munchkin Nursery
around the woods - around the world
genebush@otherside.com http://www.munchkinnursery.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Susan Campanini <campanin@ntx1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Subject: in bloom now?
> What's in bloom now in your garden?
> We have lots of tiny blue flowers of forget-me-nots, the
> wine-colored blooms of knautia, yellow flag iris and a few remaining blue
> siberians, lots of hardy geraniums in different colors, like phaeum,
> sanguineum, cinereum, magnificum, and psilostemon.
> There are still a few herbaceous peonies (the tree peonies, alas,
> are finished for the year). The digitalis lutea (tiny pale yellow "fairy
> gloves") are starting up and the lychnis coronaria (magenta flowered rose
> campions with white felty leaves) as well.
> White meidland shrub rose, zepherin druon, some David Austin English
> roses that survived the winter, and the reliable tiny-flowered pink fairy
> rose are in bloom, along with many lovely clematis in purple, pink, and wine
> colors.
> The small campanulas are showing lovely blue bells in the raised
> beds and oak barrells and they look nice with yellow and orange violas. The
> blue columbines are still going strong as well, and the pink oenothera
> speciosa is starting to bloom. The dwarf double super fragrant mockorange is
> great right now. The dropmore scarlet honeysuckle is outdoing itself already
> despite (because of?) a severe fall pruning.
> A tall weigela with red flowers is loaded with bloom (can't remember
> the name). Amsonia tiny pale blue stars are still out but finishing. The
> dark blue pea flowers of the baptisia are still going strong. Husker red
> penstemon (white flowers, red stems) are super this year. In the shade
> beds, there are nice tall dainty blooms on the heuchera, some yellow wood
> poppy still showing, rue anemone, meadow rue (magnificent this year),
> astilbes, two tiny adorable blue and white flowers on the first year
> omphalodes starry eyes, and--no blooms of course, but fronds in abundance
> on the many ferns in this cool spring.
> The mixed allium in yellow, pink, and magenta are still bright in
> the bulb border. Nepeta is in bloom inside the cat run. Lots of charming
> dianthus in all shades of pink and red are blooming along with blue
> veronicas and orange helianthemum in the raised rock garden beds. The
> astrantia is blooming for the first time--strange but interesting dusky
> reddish flowers.
> I apologize to all the little and big beauties that I've omitted
> because I'm just going from this morning's memory on the way to the
> office...fortunately, the garden in the mind's eye contains no weeds.
>
> Happy Gardening!
>
> Susan and David in Urbana, Illinois, zone 5b
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