RE: Another unidentified plant

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From: owner-perennials@mallorn.com [mailto:owner-perennials@mallorn.com]On Behalf Of Barb Pernacciaro
Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2001 2:23 PM
To: Perennials
Subject: Another unidentified plant

Play taps for most of the annuals and vegetables in this part of the country – we had our first freeze last night in southern Wisconsin.

 

It also put paid to a mystery plant that I bought this year and planted on the edge of the perennial bed. And for the life of me cannot remember if it IS a perennial or what it was called – probably an end-of-season bargain from ShopKo. It looked like a polygonum, reddish fleshy stems, lovely reddish/bronze/green zoned leaves, very small little insignificant clusters of white flowers and grew vigorously (had to cut it back a few times to keep it from overwhelming its neighbors). I cut a few stems to put in water in the house and it rooted freely from the nodes, so I am in the process of transferring the cuttings gradually to soil. I’ll see if I can keep it alive all winter so I can put it out again next year – somewhere with more room. It was very attractive, about a foot or so tall, the stems arching to the ground and looked striking amongst the greens.

 

If this sounds familiar to anybody, please name it for me.

 

-Barb P.