There is also a clump of them way over in between two other rows. This means they seed themselves pretty freely. Lesson: if you can nurse something through the first year, you have a fighting chance. Lesson 2: Ox-Eyed. Daisies, obviously a predecessor of the Shasta Daisy, makes THING TWO in the herb beds that works because it is the hardy older variety. Thing One was the Bergamot, predecessor of the hybrid Bee Balm. (see last year). We've had Bee Balm: temperamental, and hard to pull through to next year. But Bergamot - well, it's all over the place now.
Wednesday, May 02, 2007
a very quick note about a very beautiful thing
My daughter told me these would never, ever grow here. Ox-Eyed Daisies. She said they are wild and rampant in the Northwest...but it's just too hot here. And last year, when I started some from seed and put them in the herb beds, they nearly all died. She was right, I thought. Its just too hot. But one clump did hang in there, and here we are, a year later.
There is also a clump of them way over in between two other rows. This means they seed themselves pretty freely. Lesson: if you can nurse something through the first year, you have a fighting chance. Lesson 2: Ox-Eyed. Daisies, obviously a predecessor of the Shasta Daisy, makes THING TWO in the herb beds that works because it is the hardy older variety. Thing One was the Bergamot, predecessor of the hybrid Bee Balm. (see last year). We've had Bee Balm: temperamental, and hard to pull through to next year. But Bergamot - well, it's all over the place now.
There is also a clump of them way over in between two other rows. This means they seed themselves pretty freely. Lesson: if you can nurse something through the first year, you have a fighting chance. Lesson 2: Ox-Eyed. Daisies, obviously a predecessor of the Shasta Daisy, makes THING TWO in the herb beds that works because it is the hardy older variety. Thing One was the Bergamot, predecessor of the hybrid Bee Balm. (see last year). We've had Bee Balm: temperamental, and hard to pull through to next year. But Bergamot - well, it's all over the place now.
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