Lysimachia ciliata Firecracker
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- Subject: Lysimachia ciliata Firecracker
- From: E* f*
- Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 13:38:32 +0100
Oh good. I'm really glad I bought it now. Thanks Ginny and Graham.
You've given me the confidence to plant it. Thanks. Louise English in
southern England
>Date: Sun, 9 May 1999 10:50:56 -0400
>From: "Ginny" <vhw95@fast.net>
>Subject: Re: Lysimachia ciliata Firecracker
>
>Hi Louise,
>
>This loosestrife is a runner, but it is relatively easy to pull out to keep
>its size manageable. I love the emerging purplish foliage. Does revert to
>green in summer, but it is a plant that I am quite fond of. I have it in a
>bed with heliopsis (repeating the yellow), fallopia, sedum 'Vera Jameson', a
>gray leafed dianthus, Aquilegia 'Woodside' (again yellow foliage), and a
>Spirea 'Gold Flame'. One of my favorite parts of the garden.
>
>Good luck.
>
>Ginny (zone 6 in PA)
>
>
>Date: Sun, 9 May 1999 15:07:25 +0100
>From: Graham Rice <graham@grahamrice.com>
>Subject: Re: Lysimachia ciliata Firecracker
>
>This a spectacular plant, although I'd say the flowers are buttercup yellow
>rather than pale yellow. It certainly runs, especialy in my clay-based
>soil, but it's never such a thug as it relation Lysimachia punctata. It
>looks great from the moment the purple foliage comes through in spring
>(interplant with blue wood anemones) and later with tall pokers and tall
>yellow-variegated grasses.
>
>Graham Rice
>Northamptonshire, UK
>Zone 8
>
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