Heather and wallflower are lovely too, and very easy to care for. The purple heather that you find in the PacNWet blooms in the spring and fall. Plant it in peat moss, see that it's watered once a weekand feed it with a general plant food every few months. It puts out a beautiful cloverlike flower and the bees love it. excellent if you live in an area hit by bee blight--help those little creatures recover.
Wallflower is a bush with thin leaves and throws out beautiful stalks of blooms. Plant it in regular soil, and care for as you would heather. Again, bees love it. Prune both plants back from time to time--heather for shaping (as it grows, it becomes excellent ground cover) and the wallflower stalks back to the bush level as the blooms die off. It also covers ground well. It likes medium to full sunlight; my heather grows in a mostly shaded area and doesn't seem to mind. Enjoy your beautiful garden and the compliments! Arlys On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:05:19 EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > In a message dated 8/21/2007 4:42:38 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Then you should try Cannas > > > ************ > > And daylilies. Talk about maintenance free! And they come is some > amazing > varieties, not just the tawny ditch lily. Check out this vendor! > > _http://www.oakesdaylilies.com/supplier/home.php?id=s000_ > (http://www.oakesdaylilies.com/supplier/home.php?id=s000) > > > Of course the actual blooms only last a day so you can't really cut > them and > bring them inside. But they bloom day after day, especially if you > water > them when they 1st start coming up in the spring. They spread too. > > > > ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the > all-new AOL at > http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > h-costume@mail.indra.com > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
