RE: Re: Lots of questions...need help re lilies & peonies especially...

Bonnie: Offering those plants to your cousins is a grand idea...we have
a couple of plants like that in our yard now that came from my husband's
family...their original 1850's homestead was sold (by a second wife who
didn't get along with the family) to a stranger but a few years ago, one
of the cousins managed to buy it and bring it back into the family, so
one of them has taken a few clippings and propagated new stock for those
who want them...one of them is a wisteria and we have two of them in our
yard...Marty very lovingly tends these plants and I think they really
hold a special place for him.



Melody, IA (Z 5/4)

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious."    
--Albert Einstein

 --- On Mon 04/05, Bonnie & Bill Morgan < wmorgan972@ameritech.net > wrote:
From: Bonnie & Bill Morgan [mailto: wmorgan972@ameritech.net]
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 17:32:54 -0400
Subject: RE: Re: [CHAT] Lots of questions...need help re lilies &   peonies  especially...

Thank you Kitty, Ceres, Donna, Rich, Marge and everyone else who pitched
in<br>here for me. I do so appreciate the time you took to give me
good<br>solutions. <br><br>I think what I will do is take about 1/2 of
what is coming up now and if the<br>house will be sold before fall, ask
the new owners if I can take half of<br>what is left (1/4) in the fall.
That way, I will have something here for<br>momma either way. The
peonies are at least 50+ years old--in mother's yard<br>alone. I don't
know how old the original root-stock was before the aunts<br>shared
their plants with momma. I'll bet those root systems are
humongous!<br>I'll bring a grubbing hoe and two forks with the shovel,
just in case. Oh,<br>and burlap! Where's the best place to pick up
burlap?<br><br>The peonies have always been there in my memory and I
remember the armloads<br>of blossoms mom would gather to take to the
graveyard each year to remember<br>departed loved ones by. When they
begin growing here, I'll remember the all<br>the Aunts who gave mother
starts and her holding armloads of very fragrant<br>beautiful
blossoms.<br><br>It is O.K. if they miss blooming this year. I have
plenty of plants in the<br>landscape that are in bloom during that time
of the spring, but then next<br>year when they blossom, I can load up an
armload and give them to mother.<br>:>D I can't tell you how excited I
am that I can get some of them<br>transplanted here! How wonderful! Once
they are well established, I'll be<br>calling gardening cousins across
the U.S. to let them know I have them and<br>offer them a piece of their
heritage, too--to be transplanted in the
fall<br>though!<br><br>Blessings,<br>Bonnie (SW OH - zone
5)<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net
[o*@hort.net] On Behalf<br>Of Donna<br>Sent:
Monday, April 05, 2004 2:28 PM<br>To: gardenchat@hort.net<br>Subject:
Re: Re: [CHAT] Lots of questions...need help re lilies &
peonies<br>especially...<br><br>If we all gardened by the book, it sure
wo

uld be a dull hobby :) As<br>gardeners we look at what should be, then
push the zone, climate, soil<br>type, and try it
anyways....<br><br><br>So Bonnie, I vote you go for it. Sounds like an
option of the perfect<br>senerio is not possible... so you need to try
anyways, just due to the<br>memories. You will never forgive yourself if
you don't at least try.<br>IMHO<br><br><br>Donna<br><br><br><br>> Peony
roots or divisions should be sold in fall. Potted peonies can
be<br>sold<br><br>> in spring, but not bareroot, not with good
consequences. Potted is the<br>key<br><br>> here as they should have
been divided and potted the previos fall, so<br><br>> everything is in
the pot.<br><br>> Kitty<br><br>> ----- Original Message ----- <br><br>>
From: <Cersgarden@aol.com><br><br>> To: <gardenchat@hort.net><br><br>>
Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2004 11:39 PM<br><br>> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Lots
of questions...need help re lilies & peonies<br><br>>
especially...<br><br>> <br><br>> <br><br>> > In a message dated 4/4/04
11:14:48 PM, kmrsy@comcast.net writes:<br><br>> ><br><br>> > << I'd
never trust one<br><br>> > purchased in spring, though they would have a
chance of making it >><br><br>> ><br><br>> > We sell them in the
greenhouse every year. I have not heard of any<br><br>>
problems.<br><br>> > i know some of our employees have purchased them
and had good results.<br><br>> Many<br><br>> > garden centers in our
area sell them in the spring.<br><br>> >
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