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Fri, Jun 22, 12 at 11:52
| OK, since you all were so helpful with your comments about Escapade, Lavender Dream and Yesterday,I decided I'll ask about these two purple climbers. Any comments, opinions, etc on these? Which is more floriferous,for example? Does PS ever really climb? (I love mine, but it seems to me more a cascader/mounder so far, though only in it's second year).Any comments, good or bad, will be much appreciated. Thanks in advance, bart |
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| HEY, BART! If Purple Skyliner is more a cascader/mounder in your climate, it might do that for me, as well. Keep us posted. Mine's probably a year away from going into the ground. Jeri |
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| In my heat, PB wasn't as steady a bloomer. PS is in its second year in terrible, unamended, dry, crumbly soil with old, dead oleander stumps and litter, many gophers and rabbits. It gets watered by hose when I'm out there. It's on a fairly steep slope in all day sun, exposed to winds, but it's the only place I had to put it in the ground. It blooms like a fool! The flowers are fried because it's been June Gloom, drippy, gray, damp, cool mornings with INTENSE sun, wind and HOT afternoons. It's showing its multiflora resentment toward my alkaline soil and water by demonstrating some chlorosis. It will get over it. Kim |
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| Thanks, Jeri and Kim. It sort of looks like your PS is thinking about climbing, Kim!...bart |
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| yeah, Bart, PS will climb but, like many of the multiflora ramblers (goldfinch, Ghislaine de Feligonde) it makes a large bushy clump. It is a rose which will work well on a post and wire fence to make a vigorous hedge but it is resolutely not keen to stay in a nice two-dimensional shape. Also, it takes at least three years before it puts out long flexible canes which can be trained when young (and even they are not that long). If space is available, I think it would make a great specimen as a free standing arching shrub. Dunno about perennial blue. |
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| I haven't had any of my purple "potential climbers" long enough to pronounce really, but I must say that what Campanula says about PS does go with my obsevsations of my plnt in it's secondor maybe third year in my garden (a grafted plant). Instead, Perennial Blue does seem to have a more climbing habit. Also, Lavender Friendship, new in my garden this year,does seem to have a more climbing attitude than does PS. But we will see...bart |
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