RE: Re: Collecting/ number of plants??

Hum.. well if one plant is taking over the entire eastern section of the
country... sounds like it something I would not want in my garden!

Donna

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> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
> Behalf Of Chapel Ridge Wal Mart National Hearing Center
> Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 6:53 PM
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Re: Collecting/ number of plants??
> 
> Dan Hinkley recently wrote about a plant (Neiusia alabamiana)  in
> Horticulture mag of which there were only a few populations.  This
> Appalacian species has survived the ice age and when discovered in the
> 1800s
> there were thought to be only 2 populations, one of which was later
> destroyed.  New populations of possibly another species of this
> thought-to-be-single-species-genus have been discovered out west.  Anyway,
> the reason I brought it up is that they are thinking that, because it
> suckers, that that entire eastern population they found, might actually be
> a
> single plant.
> 
> Kitty
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Christopher P. Lindsey" <lindsey@mallorn.com>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 10:15 PM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Re: Collecting/ number of plants??
> 
> 
> > > Speaking of which, someone asked me
> > > the other day how many plant were in my front garden.  I was
> completely
> > > dumbfounded- how on earth would I know?  I have as many as I couple
> > > possibly fit there.  Does anyone acually know how many plants are in
> > > their garden?
> >
> > Hi Theresa,
> >
> >    I don't know off-hand, but I can easily find out.  I try to keep all
> >    of my plants in a database so that I know where they are, when they
> >    were purchased, and how much they cost.
> >
> >    The tricky part is defining 'plant'.  I have a whole bed of
> >    Ceratostigma plumbaginoides (leadwort) that came from a 4" pot.
> >    Is that one plant?  :)
> >
> >    This is one of the features that I hope to add to hort.net, although
> >    a lot of people have told me that they wouldn't find it useful.
> >    Personally, I find it invaluable when Romeo tears a plant label
> >    out of the ground.
> >
> > Chris
> >
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