Re: shasta daisy
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- Subject: Re: shasta daisy
- From: R* C*
- Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 22:01:24 -0400
Depends on which salvia you mean. Lots of them are, but not the ones you
find in flats in the garden centres.
I would think your shastas should be showing something, but give it another
week or two. Mine are clearly showing but it has been an early if very dry
spring.
Oriental poppies can be a bit of a disappointment- I know they are for me,
because they bloom for so short a time. If you have room in your garden
though, they are beautiful. Try the Atlas poppy, Papaver atlanticum.
Lovely little pale orange flowers, and they bloom in flushes pretty well all
summer for me. Hardy to at least -23 C with minimal snow cover.
Bob Campbell
USDA 4
Elle wrote:
>this is so discouraging..My Shasta daisys..(this is their 2nd year) are
>still sticks on the ground.
>Is it me? Is it too early for Oregon? I know we talked this to death
>last year but I need reassurance again
>BTW, about the journal..great Idea. I did pictures all summer and going
>over them now I have discovered that
>1..we are behind
>2..Salvia truly is not perennial
>3..everything is planted too close together.
>I also am very happy about the oriental poppies this year..they look so
>much better than last year.
>I rescued a few from a pharmacy gardening dept..they had gotten dried out
>in the brief spring we had a couple of weeks ago. Brought them home,
>planted them by the door so I can keep an eye on them, fed and watered
>and propped up the drooping bud with small flower stakes and .WOW they
>are really doing well. not bad for 2 for a buck plants.
>
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