A species, maybe?
- Subject: [sibrob] A species, maybe?
- From: L*
- Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 13:57:54 -0500
Siberian experts:
You all probably get tired of identification type questions, but this
is one I've been wondering about since it first bloomed in 1997. An
acquaintance in N.Iowa gave me a clump of blue sibs. and one of white
sibs. in 1995. The white one bloomed in 1998 and turned out to be a
spuria. But the blue one bloomed in 1997 and turned out to be:
beautiful, very hardy, doesn't know how to quit blooming. I haven't
given it the best of care...it rarely gets watered (my other sibs.
are closer to the house where I can easily water them), never gets
weeded but it's so thick, not needed. Some years I've forgotten to
cut it down in the fall, or to deadhead after it's through blooming.
It has small dark blue flowere with white signals, thin grassy
foilage, about 2 ft. tall; flowers above
the foilage. the calyx (?) outside of the bud, is a brighter red
than any of my named sibs. It is in a large mixed perennial bed
where my goal is to have bloom from tulip time to aster time in the
fall, and I'm close to achieving success.
This sib. adds such a gorgeous area of blue right now when the
peonies are in bloom and also the 2 TB iris that I have in this bed.
Just today, I discovered a self-seeded plant with buds right in the
foilage of a daylily that I was weeding. This is the first time I've
had a sib. seed itself...this new plant is probably 10 feet from the
main clump.
I have 2 questions: Does anyone have any idea what this is likely to
be, coming from an old Iowa garden, sort of a "pass-along" plant.
Also, when the self-seeded plant is through blooming, will I have to
dig up the daylily in order to get it out of there? I want to save
it, and plant it somewhere else. Or should I just cut it off at the
ground and forget about it?
Linda Kofstad
s. Minnesota
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