cold snap?
- Subject: cold snap?
- From: S* C*
- Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 11:20:04 -0500
We have had a cold snap here in zone 5b, not frost but low thirties,
so we have taken in the house plants for the year. A few maples are starting
to turn red, and the wind smells like the end of the gardening season is
right around the corner.
Nonetheless, there are still plenty of blooms in the garden, both
annual and perennial. I know we're not supposed to mention annuals, but I
have to say that I loved the Angelonia (first time I've grown them) and
they've lasted through heat and mugginess and now chilly nights, along with
lantana, snaps, osteospermum, and geraniums.
As for perennials, the climbing perennial sweet pea lathyrus has
been especially long lasting, along with Japanese anemones, dwarf anchusa,
althea zebrina, asclepias bloodflower (loaded with monarchs), trumpet vine,
coreopsis, rudbeckia, toad lilies, spiderworts, kirengoshoma, butterfly
bushes, boltonia, and scabiosa.
Now's a good time to do some clean up and preparation for when the
overly ambitious (yet again) bulb order arrives! And I've already sent for
my Heronswood catalogue for next spring to get me through the winter ...
What's in bloom in other zones now?
Susan and David in Urbana, IL
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