Re: tulips, nepeta and sedums

Not to sound like I am bragging, but I find nepeta to be one of the most
persistent and easily "transplantable" plants in my garden.  It will even
live out of the ground in a hunk for several weeks before I replant it.  Do
you have a particularly tender nepeta?

Nan



>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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Nan Sterman
San Diego County California
Sunset zone 24, USDA hardiness zone 10b or 11

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