RE: Cerinthe major redux

Boy, Claudia, isn't that just the way.

I stopped by a local nursery last night and saw several things I MAIL
ORDERED.  I guess the rule of the day is, it will be in the nurseries,
locally, the year I decide to mail order.  I'll let you all know what I'm
mail ordering next year so you can save yourself the trouble and shipping
and wait for them to show up at your local nursery! ;-)

Susan Saxton, zone 6b
For mine is a little old fashioned garden where the flowers come
together to praise the Lord and teach all who look upon them to do
likewise.
Celia Thaxter

I AM in shape.  ROUND is a shape!


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Claudia P Weaver [c*@cats.UCSC.EDU]
> Sent: Thursday, May 13, 1999 7:51 PM
> To: perennials@mallorn.com
> Cc: perennials@mallorn.com
> Subject: Re: Cerinthe major redux
> 
> 
> 
> 	Hello, all--
> 		As usual, plant trends really run in cycles!  Some 
> friends and I visited the Carmel Garden Show a couple of 
> weekends ago, 
> and saw Cerinthe major used in several of the display gardens. In a 
> couple of the displays, it was paired with euphorbias. The 
> purply-green 
> and chartreuse combination was eye-popping, to say the least. 
>  As soon as 
> we could, we headed straight for the vendors area and searched 
> single-mindedly for the specialty nursery that had Cerinthe 
> for sale (but 
> alas, had sold out of the Verbascum "Helen Johnson" already). 
>  We pushed 
> through the crowd (well, 3 or 4 other people,at least!),
> snatched up our little four-inch pots and triumphantly toted 
> them back to 
> the car.  Relief! We had our treasure securely in hand... No 
> Nordstrom 
> sale shoppers could have been prouder. 
> 	Today, I headed to Santa Cruz to pick up a couple of new 
> salvias at our local garden center and as I  cruised the 
> aisles, I was 
> suddenly head-on with the purply-green fleshy leaves of... 
> Cerinthe. Lots 
> of them, in fact, in gallon cans.  I'm sure they have been in 
> stock many 
> times, but of course, I had never noticed them until they were 
> spotlighted by creative designers.  
> 	Ah, well, our little four-inchers are thriving...
> 						Cheers,
> 						Claudia in Davenport,Ca.
> 
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