Hi Dave welcome back
Helenium, is it worth growing?
LOL Hi back at ya! Is our Dave ready for the big snow?
Where is BigcityAl? Hibernating already?
GD is heading back from school in VT.
My poor DD is going to worry until she sees the headlights in the driveway.
GD is a competent driver,hope she gets an early start and misses most of this.
We are due for up to 8" thats a lot.
Its bittercold for the better part of the week.
Should have posted on weather sorry.
You can use Google to search ONLY in Dave's Garden by the SITE: command.
e.g. site:davesgarden.com +helenium
Here's a link to those results
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&safe=off&q=site%3Adavesgarden.com+%2Bhelenium&btnG=Search
EDITED TO ADD:
Here's how to NARROW it down to BigCityAl's contributions
site:davesgarden.com +helenium +bigcityal
Link:
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&safe=off&q=site%3Adavesgarden.com++%2Bhelenium+%2Bbigcityal&btnG=Search
This message was edited Dec 19, 2008 10:09 AM
Yeah, Al sent me Ruby Tuesday seeds because I was looking for a shorter Helenium! (Thanks again, Al.)
I was ready for a ton of winter storm hype and a couple of inches of snow. But we alot of snow for southern CT!
10 inches (?)
I hope your GD is home safe GE.
I have a helenium that did very well for me this year. i just loved it, so I bought another one in yellow. They grow quite tall and get lots of flowers. Yes, they do bloom late, but I like to have late season color. Nice to have something blooming when everything else is slowing down.
JoAnn, I have that Persicaria 'Red Dragon'. It's a nice one. Really sprawls and blooms little white blossoms very late in the season. Foliage is the big show on that one. I also bought Brunerra 'Jack Frost' this year as well. Love it!
Here is a picture of my Helenium, which is in a dry/full sun garden that I put in this year, my crowning achievement of the year. I had blooms all summer in that garden with salvias, coreopsis, gaillardias, marigolds, daylilies, agastaches, rudbeckias, echinaceas, etc.
Karen
Here's another picture from that garden featuring my 'Oranges And Lemons' gaillardia and marigolds.
Here's a picture of my persicaria 'Red Dragon'.
All these pics were taken in Sept.
Karen
love this combo
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/p.php?pid=5910517
Thanks, Allison.
Karen
Nice pics Karen, I really need some of that gaillardia. Do you know what cutivar of hellenium that is? It is very pretty. Thanks for all the info on it's growing habit too.
Well, I don't know if it has a cultivar name. The botanical name is Helenium autumnale. I think it's just a species, not a hybrid.
Karen
Nice...looks great Karen.
Thanks, Jen.
Karen
I grow lots of Heleiums. They bloom at a time I really need the color. Wish they bloomed a little longer. Here's a link I start with lots of photos.
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/756018/
Susan
Susan your heleniums are fantastic, as well your gardens.
Nice photo's!
Beautiful colors.
Really gorgeous pics Susan. I like your garden and color combos . Thanks for the link.
Looks wonderful, being so tall do they flop over at all?
Very nice, Susan, I didn't read the entire thread but looked at most of the pics. I only have one helenium myself that bloomed last year, and I planted another late in the season that should bloom this year. I love them, too. There aren't too many plants I don't like.
Karen
Thanks. The taller ones can flop a little, but need only a little support like twine to stand upright. I like that they bloom at a time when I don't have a lot of color in the garden. Do wish they bloomed a little longer.
Susan
Joining in late, but am a huge lover of helenium (sneezeweed). Have used
cultivars of the species (Helenium autumnale), but now use numbers of hybrids. Have Chelsey, Feuersiegal, Flammenspiel (Dancing Flames), Mardi Gras, Moerheim Beauty, Rubinzwerg (Ruby Dwarf: short), Sahin's Early Flowerer, The Bishop (short) and Wyndley (short). At least have a lot of spaces to fill! Have lost several others.
Heleniums like moisture. I have read, but never tried myself, about pinching off helenium stems in summer in order to make plants shorter when they bloom. I am finding that helenium clumps gradually die away, if you dont break up or divide and then replant sections about every three years. I do this immediately after they've flowered and either replant pieces in the flower beds or in pots for overwintering outside.
Heleniums can cause skin reactions and are poisonous, apparently if you eat enough. Livestock sometimes do the latter with wild heleniums. Somebody mentioned their spouse: Heleniums are not a pollen problem: for that matter neither is goldenrod, which gets the blame for ragweed.
Thanks Sunny
Lee Anne wrote an article about them last summer.