Re: epis and Jeffersonia and Glaucidium

No kidding.  What a find for a gardener!  Where are y'all moving to Marge?

On 4/25/06, Lynda Young <lyoung@grindertaber.com> wrote:
>
> Leaving your gardens will be sad, yes, but what a legacy you'll be
> passing on to the lucky buyer.
>
> Lynda
> Zone 7 - West TN
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
> Behalf Of Bonnie Holmes
> Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 7:09 AM
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] epis and Jeffersonia and Glaucidium
>
>
> Oh, I'm sorry you are leaving your beautiful gardens...I so admired them
> from the pictures on the site.  It must seem as though part of you will
> be left behind. We've had our home for close to 30 years and I know we
> will have to give it up in the approaching future when we can no longer
> handle it.  I dread the day.
>
>
> > [Original Message]
> > From: Kitty <kmrsy@comcast.net>
> > To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> > Date: 4/25/2006 6:58:33 AM
> > Subject: Re: [CHAT] epis and Jeffersonia and Glaucidium
> >
> > > have to sell up and move in the very near future - after 30 years
> > Oh Marge!
> > What a shame to have to leave that.  On the other hand, it has always
> > sounded like a tremendous lot of work.  Maybe your new place will be
> more
> > easily managed (hopefully with lower fuel bills too)  I wish you the
> best.
> >
> > Kitty
> > neIN, Zone 5
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Marge Talt" <mtalt@hort.net>
> > To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> > Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 11:15 PM
> > Subject: Re: [CHAT] epis and Jeffersonia and Glaucidium
> >
> >
> > > You'd be most welcome, Bonnie....most of them are done tho' a few
> > > still have some flowers so it would need to be early April:-)  Just
> > > let me know when you feel like heading east tho' this may be my last
>
> > > spring in this garden since it has become evident that we're going
> > > to have to sell up and move in the very near future - after 30 years
>
> > > here.  I'm determined to take as much of my garden with me as I can
> > > and have started digging and potting things; figure this season I
> > > will be digging plants; not planting them.
> > >
> > > Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
> > > mtalt@hort.net
> > > Shadyside Garden Designs
> > >
> > > ----------
> > >> From: Bonnie & Bill Morgan <wmorgan972@ameritech.net>
> > >>
> > >> Marge, if I ever get in your neighborhood, I just have to see your
> > > Epi's in
> > >> bloom!
> > >>
> > >> Blessings,
> > >> Bonnie (SW OH - zone 5)
> > >>
> > >> -----Original Message-----
> > >> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net]
> > > On Behalf
> > >> Of Marge Talt
> > >> Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2006 3:57 AM
> > >> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> > >> Subject: Re: [CHAT] epis and Jeffersonia and Glaucidium
> > >>
> > >> Late on this thread as usual, but I have been enjoying my epis this
> > > year as
> > >> I've been down in the woodland garden and caught most of them while
> > > in bloom
> > >> BUT did not have sense enough to take camera down to get pix while
> > > they were
> > >> at the height of bloom...yet again.  I've
> > >> got:
> > >>
> > >> Epimedium brachyrrhizum
> > >> Epimedium cantabridgensis
> > >> Epimedium diphyllum - large leaf form
> > >> Epimedium epsteinii
> > >> Epimedium grandiflorum 'Lavender Lady'
> > >> Epimedium grandiflorum 'Lilafee'.....this really is a lovely child;
> > > highly
> > >> recommend it.
> > >> Epimedium grandiflorum 'Orion'
> > >> Epimedium grandiflorum 'Silver Queen'
> > >> Epimedium x  'Kaguyahime'.....this was given me by a UK pal; it is
> > > tiny but
> > >> the foliage and flowers are fabulous - well worth looking out for.
> > >> Epimedium x rubrum Epimedium x setosum
> > >> Epimedium versicolor
> > >> Epimedium x versicolor 'Sulphureum'
> > >> Epimedium x youngianum 'Azusa'
> > >> Epimedium youngianum niveum
> > >>
> > >> All seem to be doing fine; some are doing a bit too fine as they're
> > > covering
> > >> more territory than I want them to:-)  Got several from Daryl in
> > > '03 and I
> > >> am finally beginning to recognize them and attach their names to
> > > them - will
> > >> take some time before I can look at these plants and say this is X
> > > without
> > >> scratching around for the label I buried next to it:-)  My problem
> > > with
> > >> Epimediums is that they're addictive - so many and so little time
> > > and not
> > >> enough $$:-)
> > >>
> > >> I'd assumed that Daryl sent his plants later because of his zone -
> > > they were
> > >> later coming on.  Kitty, did he say that they should be dug in June
> > > in all
> > >> climate zones?
> > >>
> > >> I also grow Jeffersonia diphylla and if I'm quick enough I get to
> > > see the
> > >> flowers - they're as brief as bloodroot but the plant is well worth
> > > growing
> > >> for the foliage.  Have a slew of Jeffersonia dubia that I grew from
> > > seed;
> > >> some flowered this spring and I badly need to dig them up and pot
> > > them as
> > >> they're crowded in a seedbed I made for them too long ago.  Does
> > > anybody
> > >> know when the best time to dig these little darlings would be?
> > > Same with
> > >> Glaucidium palmatum - I have about 4 that have survived from
> > > several years
> > >> of trying to grow them from seed - one is now blooming and they're
> > > mashed in
> > >> behind some hellebores and badly need more space.
> > >>
> > >> Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
> > >> mtalt@hort.net
> > >> Shadyside Garden Designs
> > >>
> > >>
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Pam Evans
Kemp TX
zone 8A

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