Re: Goatsbeard
At 6:34 PM -0400 6/1/00, Margot Kane wrote:
>Two years ago I ordered some goatsbeard from Bluestone and also bought some
>in one of the bareroot perennial bags at Costco. There should have been a
>total of about 8. I planted in the in the back of a border where I have
>spirea, iris, hosta, daylillies, astilbe and filapendula growing well.
>None of them have appeared to survive. Has anyone else had any problems?
>Do I need to start with a large established plant?
Did they make it one year, but not the second? Or did they not come
back for their second growing season?
I've got a half-dozen or so aruncus and they were all bought in
gallon pots. All are doing well, with the 3-y-o plants really
looking lush, and the brand-new ones looking fine.
Karen.
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Minneapolis
Zone 4a