Re: Leycesteria formosa -Reply

In a message dated 10/15/98 2:03:31 PM Eastern Daylight Time, SS@Schwabe.com
writes:

<< Wow, maybe I have the wrong name?  Leycesteria
 ???, not formosa?  I live in 6b and felt confident
 after my research that I was fine with the shrub in
 my garden (perennially).  I'm usually very careful
 about zone limit because we have some wicked
 winter  ice and wind where I live.  I'll check it out. 
 So sorry to get your hopes up!  
 
 As to moving, Bill, Oregon's getting darn crowded
 so you bettery hurry up and get here!
  >>
If yours is flourishing in Z6b, I may have to give it a shot, although we
sometimes have 5a winters.  The name was correct--the photo I saw in the AHS
A-Z  Encyclopedia of Garden Plants exactly matched your description.  It may
be their Zones that are off.

You have milder winters than we do here in Ohio, and I don't think your
summers are as hot and dry as ours (I know you had drought this year).  I also
know Oregon is getting crowded--I was there last month for a board meeting of
the American Daffodil Society and spent a lot of time in traffic.  The
downtown area and the approaches to it are especially congested, aren't they?

Still, you can grow a lot of things we can't.  I doubt there's much, if
anything, that we can grow that won't survive in Oregon.  I'm going to have to
look out for Leycesteria.

Bill Lee

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