Re: Wisteria
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- Subject: Re: Wisteria
- From: M* B*
- Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 09:27:03 -0600
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> From: Barb Pernacciaro <bpern@idcnet.com>
> To: perennials@mallorn.com
> Subject: Re: Wisteria
> Date: Monday, November 02, 1998 9:13 PM
> My husband and I spent the weekend in Williamsburg, VA which was most
> interesting, but I really wanted a plant guide with me to tell me what
> this plant was and what that one was! I saw some neat shrub outside a
> window at the Richmond airport with long wands of purple flowers, each
> one tipped in white--it's so frustrating not to know what it was!
> --
> Barb P.
> SE Wisconsin, Zone 4
Barb;
If you meant long wands of flowers with each flower tipped in white. The
plant that comes to mind is Salvia leucantha or Mexican Bush Sage. If you
have access to the AHS A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants there is a picture
at the bottom of page 928. It is rated hardy in zones 10-11, but winters
over most years in zones perhaps as low as zone 7 I have been told. It can
be grown as an annual in colder areas reaching a height of up to 3-4 feet
in one season with incredible fall bloom.
You can probably also find it in mail order catalogues under one of the
above names.
Martha
M Brown
NW Oklahoma, USA
USDA Zone 6b, Sunset Zone 35
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