Re: epis and Jeffersonia and Glaucidium

Keep us informed, both your activities and your  plans.

Cathy, west central IL, z5b

On Apr 25, 2006, at 7:26 AM, Zemuly Sanders wrote:

> Marge, the way I look at change is "Every time a door closes a  
> window opens -- it's just hell waiting in the hall."  Who knows  
> what new gardening adventures will be in store for you.
> zem
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marge Talt" <mtalt@hort.net>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 10:15 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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