Re: Blue-eyed Grass
- Subject: Re: [SG] Blue-eyed Grass
- From: M* T* <m*@HORT.NET>
- Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 01:49:32 -0400
How come you'd be afraid to put it with a mini hosta?
Alchemilla doesn't really like my climate much and the only place it
will grow is in paving cracks...well a few struggle on at the edge of
the front patio in soil that is mostly sand from the patio, but the
ones in the paving cracks are a lot happier, albeit smaller than
those I see in photos of this plant. My take on Alchemilla is that
it prefers cooler climes with cool nights. The smaller species
definitely hate my climate - I have planted and lost them so many
times; they just melt away; and they are so neat...sigh.
Hey, if it works, don't fix it:-) Blue-eyed grass seems able to hold
its own with short aggressive plants like Ajuga and L. n. 'Aurea' -
taller plants could swamp it.
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@hort.net
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> From: diehlr@INDIANA.EDU
> I would be afraid to put it with mini-hostas, and Alchemilla mollis
doesn't like
> me. I nursed several plants of it along (trying it in different
locations) and
> it sulked, barely alive, for years. I note that this year it is
gone completely.
>
> But Marge's other suggestion is from the Amazing Coincidences Dept.
I have been
> growing Blue-eyed Grass with purple ajuga and yellow moneywort,
just like her!
> The latter two are hard to control, which is why I was looking for
a change, but
> I guess I'll stick with my current combination.
>
> Bobbi Diehl
