Re: Myosotis/ Now Creeping Forget Me Not
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- Subject: Re: Myosotis/ Now Creeping Forget Me Not
- From: G*
- Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 14:27:53 -0400
Hello Barb,
Ompholodes seems to be a bit of a neglected garden plant. It is a native
(O. verna) and I have had it in my garden for some time now. Mine are
planted with Hellebore niger, Polygonatums; both the Variegated and
European multiflora. scampers inside the base of the Polygonatums and
around the hellebore. The variegated Solomon Seal emerges in a claret color
through the green, blue and white of the Creeping Forget Me Not.
I have a white version up on the hill with the Yellow Trillium all through
it, both beneath a deciduous azalea and surrounded by dwarf hosta and
Japanese Woodland Primula.
There are quite a few hybrids out there now and an occasional species from
other parts of the world to collect.
My favorite yellow-blue combination is the Mertensia with Uvularia
grandiflora. After the Mertensia or Virginia Bluebells go dormant the
foliage of the Merry Bells (Uvularia) remains until frost and is quite a
pleasing foliage plant.
Gene Bush Southern Indiana Zone 6a Munchkin Nursery
around the woods - around the world
genebush@otherside.com http://www.munchkinnursery.com
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> From: Barb Pernacciaro <bpern@idcnet.com>
> To: perennials@mallorn.com
> Subject: Re: Myosotis
> Date: Wednesday, May 05, 1999 10:04 AM
>
> > Also, try Ompholodes. Mine is blooming right now and the sky-blue
color is
> > startling. Flowers are larger than Brunnera and the color is more
> > saturated. What I call "eye-candy blue". It spreads quickly into
large
> > colonys and the bloom time is very long. I'm going to plant minature
> > narcissus in mine so the color is even more intense by contrast.
> >
> Good idea - I have yellow tulips in bloom next to Mertensia and I do love
the
> yellow and blue combination. Both of these are in a day lily bed which
will hide
> their yellowing foliage later on.
> --
> Barb P.
> SE Wisconsin, Zone 4
>
>
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