Re: Hesperis Matronalis

In a message dated 5/14/98 8:15:21 PM Eastern Daylight Time, pat-
mitchell@juno.com writes:

<< Can anyone tell me about the above?  I also know it as Dame's Rocket or
 Sweet Rocket. I seeded a garden with a *shade mixture* from a can and this
year these
 things have taken off!! (Last year they came up but didn't bloom)  They are
quite lovely, but when I had it identified by the local *plant doctor*, she
looked down her nose at it and called it a weed. >>

Dames Rocket can be very aggressive if it likes its location and it seeds
pretty freely too.  I have seen marshy areas where there's not room for
anything else to grow.  If you can control it though, it is pretty--like a
tall phlox.  I think there's a white one available too--probably a sport.
They are in bloom in SW Ohio, cincinnati area, right now and you can see them
along the road in some locations.  I had a single plant in my front bed and
had to remove it after one year because it was crowding out everything else
(just this one plant).  So I put it down in back near an area that has a creek
when conditions are wet.  It didn't make the transplant, but one plant came up
from some of the seed I tossed around and is blooming now.  So, the moral of
the story is that it may be hard to transplant, so put it where you want it to
be for a long time and keep in mind that it can be a bit of a thug.  After
blooming, it is a rough-looking, not-so-attractive plant (to my eye anyway).

Bill lee
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