Re: Overwintering annuals
- Subject: Re: Overwintering annuals
- From: "Marge Talt" m*@hort.net
- Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 22:42:43 -0400
I have not had the "annual" Lobelia seed for me, but this is another
that I have kept for more than a year. Last fall, a pot of it was
looking so good that I brought it into the greenhouse, where it
bloomed all winter and continued to put on new growth...these are
plants who prefer it cool. This was one of a spring 6-pack. The
others didn't make it through the heat of summer. It is just now
starting to look a tad ratty - still new growth at the tips and
flowers, but longer and longer sections of leafless stem. I have not
researched this one, but would not be surprised if it were also a
tender perennial.
After all, the definition of a true annual, as you noted, Claire, is
a plant that grows, sets seed and dies in one season.
I've also had "annual" snapdragons come back for me in the garden;
not seed, but the plant. Not often, to be sure, but a few times when
winters were mild. I don't grow them now for lack of sun, but once
upon a time.
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@hort.net
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> From: ECPep@aol.com
>
> Just recently I have read that the many blue -sold as annual -
Lobelias may
> seed and be found now in the garden. Here that would mean the seed
fell out
> of some container. It was said that they can be potted and will
bloom all
> winter with sufficient light, the new plants. While this is not
perennial
> information, it would be coming from the perennial garden where my
"annual"
> Lobelias live.
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