Re: number of plants??


Hi All!
    Aspens can form huge colonies, too. It is a good guy/bad guy thing
though in a landscape situation. Often times in times of stress..read
drought..they will send up suckers several feet from the main plant. Often
into areas you do not want them...neighbors yard, lawn areas, flower beds.

betsy
had about 3" of rain in the last two days
----- Original Message -----
From: "kmrsy" <kmrsy@netzero.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 8:14 AM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Re: Collecting/ number of plants??


> I don't know much about Aspens.
> BTW - I misspelled the genus; it is Neviusia
> Kitty
> neIN, Z5
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "james singer" <islandjim1@verizon.net>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 7:23 AM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Re: Collecting/ number of plants??
>
>
> > Like aspens?
> >
> > On Aug 4, 2005, at 7:53 PM, Chapel Ridge Wal Mart National Hearing
> > Center wrote:
> >
> > > 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

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