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Mike_in_chicago
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| | Posted on Saturday, May 28, 2005 - 08:43 pm EST : |   
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I've got a whole new semi-sun area to plant and am looking for a few shrubs and/or shrubby perennials for backdrops. This has always appealed to me, but I've never seen one not in bloom, and am not sure if I'll like the form without its flowers.
Anyone grow this? Do you like it?
Mike_in_chicago
- Chicago, IL,
Zone "5b"
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Formerly_ci
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| | Posted on Saturday, May 28, 2005 - 09:17 pm EST : |
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LOVE LOVE LOVE IT!
Some people think it looks like a great big weed but I think it is a wonderful, fun, big plant.
I had two by my pond in the backyard in semi-shade and they only got about 5 or 6 feet tall. So I dug one up last fall and moved it to my full sun border. It is very brittle so it came all apart but many of the pieces rooted so now I will have a very big clump eventually. It is doing quite well and is covered in buds.
In this picture it is the large leaved plant in the lower right corner.
It comes up kind of late in spring but then grows in leaps and bounds to bloom before many other plants. While the foliage isn't exactly prize winning (a bit rough and raggedy) I would say its ugliest time is right toward the end of its bloom time when the flowers turn sort of drab and off white. But I wouldn't be without it. So many wonderful combinations. Last year at Wisley I saw it with pale blue Delphiniums and loved it. I have mine with Echinops, Cephalaria and Eupatorium.
Kaveh, Back in New Jersey, zone 6 |
Mike_in_chicago
My Garden
| | Posted on Sunday, May 29, 2005 - 09:35 am EST : |
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Thanks, Kaveh. How wide does it spread for you? I love those massive pillars/teuters.
Mike_in_chicago
- Chicago, IL,
Zone "5b"
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