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- Subject: RE: What's new in your garden?
- From: "* R* <1*@rewrite.hort.net>
- Date: Sun, 18 May 2014 21:24:07 -0400 (EDT)
I bought several of the Carex 'Banana Boat" so hope they do not die at least until cold weather. Some of the Carex are just dead and some have the center alive. It will be frost before the plants look good and I have visitors coming. Oh well, just a part of real gardening.
Nancy On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 8:31 PM, Kitty Morrissy wrote:
Banana Boat fizzled out almost immediately for me but I may try it again sometime. I have some natives like Ironweed that are doing very well, too, but the nicest thing about this very weird spring is that the ephemerals are lasting much longer and look very happy!Kitty -----Original Message-----From: owner-perennials@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf Of Christopher P. LindseySent: Monday, May 12, 2014 6:53 PM To: perennials@hort.net Subject: Re: What's new in your garden? ----- Original Message -----Well, some of these are still alive here in Tennessee but a lot are dead and/or sad. Carex, Heuchera, some Hosta, other plants that I was pushing their hardiness too. But I finally found Carex 'Banana Boat' and got all of them potted up in size. They are really beginning to shine. Hope this Carex is tougher than zero degrees though. Funny how well the wildflowers are doing after the wet year and 19 year old lows. All the natives have been beautiful.Hi Nancy,You're right, and I hadn't really thought about it! The natives have been great this year. It's almost like Mother Nature knows what she's doing or something.I'm sorry to hear about all of the plant losses. The only good thing is that it makes room for new ones, but I hate going around in the spring and finding all of those 'holes'.'Banana Boat' looks interesting! I'll have to try one here, since it's supposed to be hardy in zone 5. I've grown the straight species of Carex siderosticha and have a clump of 'Variegata' from Marge Talt that needs to be moved (it's slowly declining after spreading nicely one year). That bed doesn't have much yellow in it, so I'm adding this to my 'lust list.' :DChris ---------------------------------------------------------------------To sign-off this list, send email to majordomo@hort.net with the message text UNSUBSCRIBE PERENNIALS--------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off this list, send email to majordomo@hort.net with the message text UNSUBSCRIBE PERENNIALS
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