Regarding Miss Amelia---we were doing a mass landscape planting of this on the south side of our house, but the concrete walkways proved too hot, so about nine years ago, my husband moved all of them to a new space on the west side of our property, with no concrete in sight. In fact, they receive shade about 2:30 in the p.m. in the summer. My husband tilled the space with cow manure as a soil additive--our soil is called sandy loam--and this has worked well with MiracleGro fertilizer sprayed about once a month. Also, the years we have good summer rains will be the best. We have a 500 deep well, but nothing beats water from the sky. You will not find any information on AHS about Miss Amelia, since it is English bred and therefore not on the AHS data base. It is on the All Things Plants Data base, and I am going to place this photo on the data base page.
