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Melittis melissophyllum 'Royal Velvet Distinction' |
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I received this plant by mail order in Spring 2008; it was sad and small, and I don't remember noticing it at all the rest of the season. Then I found that some online sources rate this hardly only to zone 7. So I was pleasantly surprised to see its re-emerging foliage in early May the next year. Flowers followed not too long afterwards. It has become a little more floriferous every year since then.
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We left this plant behind in our Pennsylvania garden (and wish it well); we don't grow it in Houston. One or more images of this plant are included in my stock photo catalog About my plant portraits
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Visitors to this page have left the following comments| Joanne | Apr 08, 2011 | Re: Melittis - I have several of these and you're right, it does take a few years for them to start looking really nice. They don't get very large and don't spread around, so they look best when a group of them are planted together. |
| Elizabeth | May 19, 2015 | Ditto above. I think one year my plants rebloomed when I cut them back after first bloom, but I have not had consistent success with this. Has anyone else??
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- Seed from NARGS '13/'14 exchange, cold-stored. Baggy 70F (100%G, 8d)
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