Re: early spring flowers/ Pasque Flower
Would like to jump in here and chime in with Susan on the Pulsatillas. If you
do not know or grow these please reconsider. Beautiful plants in or out of bloom.
Foliage is covered with white down, lacy and airy... stays green almost all year.
Blooms early in the spring in bell shaped or open bells. Red, white, royal purple
so deep it is almost black, lavender. The new cut-petal forms are exceptional as
they can also be doubles. Seed heads are long wispy and white like an old mans
beard. They are native to western US and most of Europe so quite tolerant. Just do
not like standing water around the roots.
Gene Bush Southern Indiana Zone 6a Munchkin Nursery
around the woods - around the world
genebush@otherside.com http://www.munchkinnursery.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Susan Campanini <campanin@ntx1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Sent: Monday, November 01, 1999 5:47 PM
Subject: re: early spring flowers
> Here are a few flowers for early spring that weren't already mentioned: the
> yellow adonis, first nonbulb to bloom in my yard; aubrieta, a wonderful
> creeper with charming pink to purple blooms for well-drained soil (BWT, the
> pink arabis is also wonderful); thlaspi, a cress-family plant with very
> early short white blooms; alyssum, many species with gorgeous yellow blooms
> at the same time as creeping phlox; lathyrus verna, a nonclimbing early
> sweet pea relative; and try some of the new fringed pulsatillas.
>
> Susan and David in Urbana, Illinois, zone 5b
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