Specialty Gardening: Favorite Plants in the Cottage Garden, 1 by lincolnitess

lincolnitess wrote:
I did not find seeds for the Euphorbia. There are a number of interesting euphorbias at this nursery:
http://www.lazyssfarm.com/Plants/Perennials/E_files/E.htm

There it says only to zone 6 for Fireglow, but another site said zone 5. It sounds like some of the euphorbias will take drier locations, but just not spread as much, which might be good.

I don't really have a good location to store bulbs and tubers over winter. The garage is too cold and the basement too warm. I finally gave up on cannas after killing a number of them in different locations. I just went out and covered the Black and Blue salvia and the Sapphire salvis with a big pile of wood mulch. Hopefully they are not dead already. They have died back to the grond, but I think the tubers should still be alive. Will see what happens in the spring.

Here is a photo I just took of the Betony. This is what it looks like when not in bloom. Neat green little mound of leaves, only about 6" tall.

Susan