RE: Hakones must look better with some heat

Oh I forgot - one is in almost full shade, but does get lots of light, another
is in semi shade, and there is another poor little soul out in the most awful
conditions imaginable!



Lil

> Subject: Hakones must look better with some heat
> From: beckmall@netins.net
> To: perennials@hort.net
> Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:31:48 -0500
>
> I had a hard time selling the hakones grass as it didn't look very good in
> the pot. So does it like it hot? Shade isn't it? Where do you have yours
> planted? I will try them again next year, hope gardeners saw them in the
> gardens and liked them. LOVE the picture of them, but the plant wasn't very
> pretty in the pot. Any suggestions? Thanks Becky
>
>
> On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:51:37 -0400
> lil tovey <liltovey@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Ah the grasses - most of them are great - just love the
> >Hakones - have a
> > couple of them. Phlox still great, gaura is still full
> >of blooms, caryopteris,
> > plumbago (the bue is wonderful!), colchicums. Two of my
> >anemones are full of
> > blooms, especially happy with "Pamina" which was new
> >this year. Third anemone
> > that I've had a few years seems to be sulking - lots of
> >foliage, no blossoms.
> > But Tricyrtis are happy! Asters seem to be on their way
> >out but my sweet
> > autumn clematis is magnificent!
> >
> > Lil T
> >
> > Georgetown ON
> >
> > Zone 5
> >
> >> Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:05:32 -0400
> >> To: perennials@hort.net
> >> From: cherylisaak@comcast.net
> >> Subject: RE: Mukdenia
> >>
> >> Hi Gene,
> >> toward the end of season, I tend shoe horn in any
> >>bargains I find.
> >> Hmm, in bloom here
> >> perennial argeratum, a few very very late daylilies, my
> >>grasses
> >>
> >> >Cheryl,
> >> > No shoehorning perennials here...too wet. Rain, rain,
> >>and more rain.
> >> >Every day this week thus far and in the forecast for
> >>the rest of the week.
> >> >Kind of hard to get anything accomplished... but,
> >>suppose that is why we
> >> >have a green house. Out potting up plants for next
> >>spring sales.
> >> > If the rain ever lets up the new entrance to my garden
> >>is in
> >> >progress now. One more good clear day and it should be
> >>completed.
> >> > Some of what is in bloom... asters October skies,
> >>Raydon's favorite.
> >> >Lots of hardy cyclamen with different leaf forms.
> >>Leucoseptrum, or
> > Japanese
> >> >Shrub Mint, two species. Lobelia in red and blue..
> >>especially the Fried
> >> >Green Tomatoes red. Viburnums and deciduous holly have
> >>berries like you
> >> >would not believe this fall. Fall blooming anemone
> >>...four different ones.
> >> >Rabdosia next to All Gold hakone grass. Plus more I can
> >>not remember
> > now...
> >> >
> >> >Gene E. Bush
> >> >Munchkin Nursery & Gardens,LLC
> >> >www.munchkinnursery.com
> >> >Garden Writer - Photographer - Lecturer
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >-----Original Message-----
> >> >From: owner-perennials@hort.net
> >>[o*@hort.net] On
> > Behalf
> >> >Of Cheryl Isaak
> >> >Subject: RE: Mukdenia
> >> >
> >> >never heard of it before Liv's post. Kind of want it
> >>now - like I
> >> >have the time/money/room for it...
> >> >Cheryl - who would much rather be trying to horn in one
> >>more plant
> >> >than the housework and errands.
> >> >
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