Re: Re: Collecting/ number of plants??

no, these are just pockets of vegetation dating back 24 million years (don't
tell the intelligent design people).  Under ideal conditions this suckering
shrub can produce dense thickets up to several yards across.

Kitty
neIN, Z5
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Donna" <gossiper@sbcglobal.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 9:41 PM
Subject: RE: [CHAT] 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
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > 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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