Re: Monarda

In a message dated 11/20/01 1:24:54 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
ashbroke@earthlink.net writes:

<< For the first time this year we had a dwarf variety - Petite Delight -
 which was truly a delight.  A low spreading plant with magnificent flowers.
  I am hoping that comes back next year.  I would like to plant the Petite
 Delight in front of the Marshall's Delight in a border.  However, the
 Marshall's Delight blooms actually covered the plants from ground up, so
 you did not need any planting in front to cover the stalks. >>


I have not had quite this wonderful experience but Marshall's Delight is my 
best plant.  It is thick, dense clump with a long blooming period and no 
mildew for me.  It always with some yearning that I read about rebloom.  It 
is very rare for a perennial to rebloom in a cold zone, Nepeta being the only 
one I can think of.  Iti s true that if you have had poor luck with the older 
plants, the new hybrids are such a joy.  No Monarda do well in dry soil.  I 
give these some of my best places with eupatorium,  tall phlox and Astilbe.  
Few astilbe as that really needs moist soil, hard to find for me. I cannot 
see why Astilbe is so popular, is does not do well in my area and I never see 
really good plants.  Siberian irises do well in these moist borders also.

Claire Peplowski
NYS z4

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