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Re: orange perennials/annuals needed -Reply

> Leonotis is a great plant, Amy, but it's about 6 feet tall in one season in
> idaho, Amy, and it doesn't winter over.  Margaret

Wow... hmmm... here in partial shade it's less than 3' ... perhaps in
full sun it'd be taller.  It's blooming though... and it's definitely a
perennial here.

As they say in Heronswood Nursery, there are "Tenperennials"  (tender
perennials) as in "real men don't grow annuals."  I try to limit what I
consider to be a perennial to those plants with perennial life cycles,
regardless of zone.  I lust after growing Icelandic poppies as
perennials, but they JUST won't make it here.  We buy them as expensive
plants shipped in from Colorado, they're temperamental to move, but
gorgeous in bloom.  The orientales just don't do it for me.

So I suppose I shouldn't suggest my asclepias curavassica, much prettier
than tuberosa milkweed, but only hardy in my zone and higher.  :-)

-- 
Amy Moseley Rupp
amyr@austx.tandem.com, Austin, TX, USDA zone 8b, Sunset zone 30
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