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Oct. 30th, 2004 11:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pegkerrThe hanging basket of delicate blue lobelia blossoms hanging from the hook by the back door is still blooming. After six months, after several nights of frost, on this date of October 30. That is so cool.
Whenever I see it, however, I think of Lobelia Sackville-Baggins, which is an unfortunate association.
Whenever I see it, however, I think of Lobelia Sackville-Baggins, which is an unfortunate association.
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Date: 2004-10-30 09:15 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-10-30 09:17 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-10-30 09:56 am (UTC)I can't get that intensely blue lobelia to thrive. It hates me. There are very few blues like it. I didn't have any luck with its relative cardinal flower either, but then again I didn't know it likes wet soil.
Pamela
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Date: 2004-10-30 09:57 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-10-30 10:35 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-10-30 01:46 pm (UTC)Ha. True!
Have you tried a hanging basket of lobelia? That's what I have that has been so successful. I hang it by the back door, where it gets early morning sun only, and I've fertilized it only occasionally. It has been perfectly happy and a great success, the most reliably beautiful plant I had all summer. The thing has been blooming for six months! When I had white peonies, I put them in a cobalt-blue vase with sprigs of lobelia cut from the hanging basket foaming around them, and the effect was ravishingly beautiful.
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Date: 2004-10-30 01:47 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-10-30 02:14 pm (UTC)Sign me,
Black-Thumb Carol
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Date: 2004-10-30 08:41 pm (UTC)The first thing I thought when I saw "delicate blue lobelia blossoms" was, "Oh! I guess the Sackville-Bagginses named their girl children after flowers, too!"