tulips, nepeta and sedums
Thanks to all who responded to my quest for plants to camouflage the dying
tulip foliage. Lots of very good suggestions! I will try nepeta and some
medium height sedums and next fall I will plant some tulips in my iris bed.
But this bring up two other questions: I was very unsuccessful moving nepeta
last summer. All the second year seedlings died when I moved them to my
perennial border from the nursery bed. I usually play musical chairs with my
perennials quite successfully - even with ones that are supposedly hard to
move like platycodon and baptisia, but nepeta just did not make it. Was it
just "one of these things" or is nepeta really hard to move?. The other
question is about sedum Autumn Joy. This year the big clump of it which I
grow in the perennial border in full sun completely flopped over and
bloomed in a circle with all the stems flat on the ground.Three smaller
plants in the same border were fine. I was thinking that maybe the soil
there is too rich or else the plant kind of reached the critical mass and
has to be divided. I liked it big and am not sure about dividing it anyhow.
Any advice? Thanks, Sophie (zone 5/6).
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