Re: What's still blooming Z5?
- To: perennials
- Subject: Re: What's still blooming Z5?
- From: b*@zelacom.com (Isabelle Hayes)
- Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 10:15:16 -0500
Jeez you people in what you call zone 5 still have flowers? Here in the
Catskill Mountains 100 miles northeast of New York City it's all over, and
has been for weeks, although a single hollyhock was performing until last week.
Isabelle Hayes
>> What's blooming in your gardens?
>
>I know exactly what's still blooming because I just picked some of
>everything for what's likely the season's last bouquet. Erysimum
>"Gold Shot" and Corydalis ochroleuca are the only ones with lots
>of flowers. The rest are just straggling and struggling: Campanula
>rotundifolia; an unknown Anthemis species still has a few yellow
>daisies; a single autumn Crocus zonatus of a dozen planted a few
>years ago has survived and is flowering; Cephalaria tatarica (I
>think) with creamy scabiosa blossoms; and Cyclamen hederifolium with
>a scattering of 2-inch high pink reflexed flowers.
>
>Ross Greenberg
>Montreal z5
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