Re: Hesperis Matronalis
At 07:08 PM 5/14/98 -0500, you wrote:
>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.
>
>Opinions?
>
>Pat
>Pat-Mitchell@juno.com
>
Dear Pat,
Hespeis matronalis is a self-seeding biennial. If you like it, enjoy it,
and forget what anyone else says. They are lovely and fragrant, and are not
at all "weedy", at least in my experience. The seedlings are easy to pull
up, but I never bother.
Myrna, Zone 3, Montana
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