Upper Midwest Gardening: Late summer / autumn blooms, 0 by grrrlgeek

grrrlgeek wrote:
I have pottery-quality clay with an inch or so each of soil, compost, and mulch on top. I had to start them inside in plugs because the chipzillas dig every grain and kernel up. I think they're shorter than they're supposed to be because I started late. But they seem happy enough. We've had plenty of rain so I haven't watered them since planting them out except a couple of times to fertilize with Foliage-Pro. From what I've seen of it's relative growing under the bird feeders, it should grow anywhere...

Here they are as babies, before they turned purple.