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Re: [SHADEGARDENS] Buddleia: Reply

In a message dated 98-03-02 22:20:36 EST, you write:

<< I wish you luck!! But to me it is in the same category as the daphnes,
heaths,
 heathers, laurels, most azaleas, most rhodies, gingers, and that AWFUL Korean
 dogwood. Our winters are MUCH too severe to grow budds and such. NOW, maybe
if
 we had a dependable snow cover..... >>

On a zone 4 mountainside I can grow one daphne, no heaths, all kalmia or
mountain laurels, native azaleas, a select group of rhodies beginning with the
PJMs and checking their ratings, no gingers except the native woodland plant
and all dogwoods.  Clyde, you must try harder.  What I would really love to
grow, Clyde and Bobbi, is a pieris of the sort that grow around London.  I
think it is a japonica, I can't look it up just now.  The shrub gets as tall
as a lilac and has flaming red new growth. Can you grow the best pieris in
Central Indiana?  Pieris is the one shrub totally immune from deer and does
not want to grow on mountains.

You might try covering the buddleia as a rose with a heap of soil protecting
the crown for winter.  I get them to stay two or three years and they die.
However, Bobbi, if you buy a new plant every two or three years you can sample
all of the many varieties.  I plant them in the perennial gardens, they do not
grow high in zone 4.  We do not prune anything until spring when we can see
what is alive and what is not.  As someone said earlier, the dwarfs do not
seem to be lower than the standard sizes.

Claire Peplowski
East Nassau, NY
zone 4
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