A Hot New Blue - Page 2© Emily Levitt
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May 27, 1999
Blue notes have always been hard to find in the garden--I have blue hydrangeas deep in the shade, and annual fan flower in the sun, but this is my favorite find yet. It completes the color scheme I've had in mind for several years, and does an equally fine job as a green background for the smaller plants.
Some sources praise hyssop as a cure for gastric disorders, a purgative, and even an hallucenogenic! That last category is somewhat suspect, wishful thinking at its best, but the dry leaves do make a lovely tea, Dried leaves can be added to regular tea to give a light anise scent to your summer coolers. The Old Testament mentions that King David used hyssop as a 'cleanser'--- most likely as a scent to help remove unpleasant odors. If you are interested in starting a Bible garden, hyssop is a must. Even if you aren't
working with liturgy in your herbarium, I'd certainly include giant hyssop as a background plant for its ability to attract pollinators!
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Emily, is your blue hyssop the species (A. foeniculum) or a hybrid? I grew a hybrid a couple years ago that I was pleased with, but it disappeared and its seed progeny weren't as good.I have sever ...
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was one of my victims...I also picked sone hyacinth bean seeds which refused to germinate. My only real success was a hunk of arborvitae fern, which has been thriving in a shaded damp spot.I also ...
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Unfortunately in my climate there was nothing I could bring from New Orleans that would live - unless I made it a house plant. But I do like the idea of living travel remembrances. What did you tr ...
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experience when I visited Charleston SC last November. One of the ladies from Grace Church showed several of us around her garden and told us to help ourselves to anything we though we could root. I d ...
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That sounds like a perfect vacation to me! Hmm... maybe he has a marketing niche there, and doesn't know it. "Are you a gardening fanatic? Come stay with us - work in our gardens, divide our perenni ...
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