Re: annuals for Gene

In a message dated 11/5/02 10:43:46 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
flowers@simplegiftsfarm.com writes:


> Now, now Gene - annuals are simply plants as well. Just not as good plants. 
> :-)

Gene,

Here is a short list of annuals or plants that behave as annuals for me that 
is require no work on my part and bloom each year by the process of self 
seeding.

Papaver, including the much questioned opium poppy.
Nigella
Cleome
Larkspur
Nicotiana
Verbena bonariensis
Digitalis
Silene armeria
Viola,many kinds including the long bloomer, Viola corsica
Rudbeckia triloba
Centranthus
Cosmos
Lobelia

There are probably more that I cannot remember but these mentioned grow well 
and bloom here yearly.  Some are shade growers and some that are not will do 
well in shade if they select the site themselves.  I do not seed, care for or 
plant any of these, they do well by themselves.  Not only are they "good" 
plants, they are in many cases "better" plants.  A matter of opinion, 
perhaps.

Off topic a bit, I will add here for Don M. the question on a specific strain 
of poppy for drug production.  In the Rix/Phillips newest on annuals they 
state that the P. somniferum grown for opium production is a strain with pods 
4 inches in length.  I have never seen that plant.  Their description is 10 
cm. which would be about 4 inches.  If that is certain information, none that 
we are growing falls into that strain.  Don, I do not remember seeing this 
published in horticultural literature previously.  Seems huge to me.

Claire Peplowski
NYS z4 

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