Comments on: Three Neat Plants http://hayefield.com/2009/10/01/three-neat-plants-6/ A Pennsylvania Plant Geek's Garden Thu, 17 May 2012 03:23:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Jenny cristimus http://hayefield.com/2009/10/01/three-neat-plants-6/#comment-2917 Fri, 07 May 2010 16:37:23 +0000 http://hayefieldhouse.com/?p=1686#comment-2917 can anyone tell me if this angelica ebony is a hybrid or is it 100% natural
please email me if possible

I suggest you ask the folks who introduced it: Plant World Seeds.
-Nan

]]> By: Pat http://hayefield.com/2009/10/01/three-neat-plants-6/#comment-2343 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:49:18 +0000 http://hayefieldhouse.com/?p=1686#comment-2343 Loved your photo of the basil – my question is how do you keep your zinnias from flopping onto the basil plants? Do you stake them? I love planting taller zinnias but by the end of the summer that have flopped over and have completely covered the shorterr plants in front!

Thanks, Pat. I cut those zinnias often for bouquets, so the plants were very bushy rather than tall. No staking required, thank goodness.
-Nan

]]> By: Curmudgeon http://hayefield.com/2009/10/01/three-neat-plants-6/#comment-2301 Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:54:10 +0000 http://hayefieldhouse.com/?p=1686#comment-2301 Hi Nan! I’m curious if that pistou basil is French? There is a pistou soup from the south of France that is made from basil–kind of like pesto but minus the cheese and nuts.

I don’t know the origin of the strain itself, but I did find references to the “pistou” you referred to. So that makes ‘Pistou’ kind of a dumb name for one particular kind of basil – kind of like naming a tomato ‘Sauce’ or a bean ‘Soup’.
-Nan

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