Re: in bloom now?
- Subject: Re: [SG] in bloom now?
- From: N* S*
- Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 11:09:55 -0400
Gene: How long does spigelia bloom?
Nancy S. (NYC, zone 6B)
>Hello Susan,
> Which cultivar of the Astrantia do you have in bloom? How long have you
grown
>them in your garden? Are you doing the cut flower thing with them...
experience?
>do they give you second flushes of bloom after a deadheading? What are you
using
>as companion plants? (so many questions) Do not know exactly why, but I
find these
>odd flowers quite fascinating. My first year with A. "Shaggy", "Hadspen Blood",
>"Ruby Wedding", "Sunningdale Variegated" and the species.
> Lots of good stuff in bloom here now, but the one that gets my eye the most
>now is "Wormroot/ Indian Pink" or Spigelia. Great foliage on stiffly upright
>stems, blooms of fire-engine red shaped like inflated tubes with a fuchsia star
>sitting on top of the tube. Now that is color... and a native to boot.
> Gene Bush Southern Indiana Zone 6a Munchkin Nursery
> around the woods - around the world
>genebush@otherside.com http://www.munchkinnursery.com
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Susan Campanini <campanin@ntx1.cso.uiuc.edu>
>Subject: in bloom now?
>
>
>> What's in bloom now in your garden?
>> We have lots of tiny blue flowers of forget-me-nots, the
>> wine-colored blooms of knautia, yellow flag iris and a few remaining blue
>> siberians, lots of hardy geraniums in different colors, like phaeum,
>> sanguineum, cinereum, magnificum, and psilostemon.
>> There are still a few herbaceous peonies (the tree peonies, alas,
>> are finished for the year). The digitalis lutea (tiny pale yellow "fairy
>> gloves") are starting up and the lychnis coronaria (magenta flowered rose
>> campions with white felty leaves) as well.
>> White meidland shrub rose, zepherin druon, some David Austin English
>> roses that survived the winter, and the reliable tiny-flowered pink fairy
>> rose are in bloom, along with many lovely clematis in purple, pink, and wine
>> colors.
>> The small campanulas are showing lovely blue bells in the raised
>> beds and oak barrells and they look nice with yellow and orange violas. The
>> blue columbines are still going strong as well, and the pink oenothera
>> speciosa is starting to bloom. The dwarf double super fragrant mockorange is
>> great right now. The dropmore scarlet honeysuckle is outdoing itself already
>> despite (because of?) a severe fall pruning.
>> A tall weigela with red flowers is loaded with bloom (can't remember
>> the name). Amsonia tiny pale blue stars are still out but finishing. The
>> dark blue pea flowers of the baptisia are still going strong. Husker red
>> penstemon (white flowers, red stems) are super this year. In the shade
>> beds, there are nice tall dainty blooms on the heuchera, some yellow wood
>> poppy still showing, rue anemone, meadow rue (magnificent this year),
>> astilbes, two tiny adorable blue and white flowers on the first year
>> omphalodes starry eyes, and--no blooms of course, but fronds in abundance
>> on the many ferns in this cool spring.
>> The mixed allium in yellow, pink, and magenta are still bright in
>> the bulb border. Nepeta is in bloom inside the cat run. Lots of charming
>> dianthus in all shades of pink and red are blooming along with blue
>> veronicas and orange helianthemum in the raised rock garden beds. The
>> astrantia is blooming for the first time--strange but interesting dusky
>> reddish flowers.
>> I apologize to all the little and big beauties that I've omitted
>> because I'm just going from this morning's memory on the way to the
>> office...fortunately, the garden in the mind's eye contains no weeds.
>>
>> Happy Gardening!
>>
>> Susan and David in Urbana, Illinois, zone 5b
>
