king of kings
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- Subject: [sibrob] king of kings
- From: A* W*
- Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 13:48:19 -0500 (EST)
Good luck with King of Kings, Ellen. It is one of the slowest to come out
of the grown for me, so bad that I had to stop listing it because it was
never big enough when I was digging spring orders... and since your
siberians finish blooming in July, it might not ever get stalks up before
your first frost (in august).
half kidding, Andrew
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> >===== Original Message From "Carol Warner" <draycott@qis.net> =====
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> >If I were growing siberians for wholesale purposes I would grow High
> Standards. I feel it is the best landscape siberian.
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> I agree with Carol with a caveat for colder zones...it takes a while to
> settle in and landscapers usually want a "plant in Aug., bloom in
> Spring reliable plant". HIGH STANDARDS took three years to have
> significant bloom here as opposed to CAESAR'S BROTHER who went in as a
> little division and went into in shock when the sunny Spring hit and
> bloomed in overdrive.
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> >Esther C.D.M. is about the best white. The Gull's Wing which grows like
> Esther, of course, would also be good.
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> For my money, Esther is a gem but KING OF KINGS (which I have never grown)
> looks gorgeous in other people's gardens when it is planted as a specimen
> plant and allowed to shine.
>
> Ellen Gallagher / Berlin, NH USA / Zone tundra :)
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