RE: Carolina allspice

I have no entertaining Carolina Allspice story, but it is one of my less
successful experiments.  I had contradictory info on it (& nowhere near the
resources I have now to find out the real requirements) - I followed the
grower's & planted it in the sun, and for 3 years it got to about 2 1/2 or
3' tall, very pretty foliage, and then the leaves fried in the summer.  So I
thought I would move it to partial shade.  It did not like being moved, not
at all, and it has languished in the back for the last 2 or 3 years.  I just
haven't gotten around to figuring out what to do with it/to it now, & it's
in an out of the way spot so it doesn't make itself urgent.  It's not big
enough to fall in to...

Libby
Maryland zone 6



-----Original Message-----
From: Kitty Morrissy
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Sent: 2/20/2003 7:29 AM
Subject: RE: [CHAT] new purchases

> probably wasn't the kind of information you were looking for though.
Au Contrare!!!  (surely not spelled right!)
Linda, 
Funny story, after the fact.  Good thing Mrs. Jewell wasn't 5 feet
closer.
I don't mind waiting a while for shrubs to get bigger.  We have a mature
one at our display gardens and I am quite taken with the flowers, so
somday, when I'm doing windows I'll have crushed alspice to cook with!
Kitty
(yes, I know it isn't the spice)


> [Original Message]
> From: Linda L Wallpe <lwallpe@juno.com>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Date: 2/19/2003 10:45:15 PM
> Subject: [CHAT] new purchases
>
> Kitty,
>
> What I have to say about Calycanthus floridus, CAROLINA ALSPICE will
not
> be of much use until it's a large bush.
>
> When we moved back to Cincinnati, we rented the first floor of a
large,
> old house from an older couple who lived on the the top two floors.
Mrs.
> Jewell was a gem of a gardener  and she had 3 mature, sweet shrubs
under
> our bedroom window.
>
> Well, one day I was washing windows.  These were really large, tall
> windows in 3 sections.  I flipped up one too many sections, forgot to
> hold on,  and fell backwards right out of the window into one of the
> bushes.  Unfortunately, Mrs. Jewell was working about 5 feet away in
her
> perennial bed and nearly had a stroke.  I think it was concern over my
> body but it may have been about the bush.  
>
> I can attest to the fact that Calycanthus floridus, CAROLINA ALSPICE
will
> greatly slow down a falling body, smelling sweetly at the same time.
I
> was only slightly scratched but I gave up serious window washing.
This
> probably wasn't the kind of information you were looking for though.
>
> Linda Wallpe
> Cincinnati, Zone 6a
> Only $9.95 per month!
> Visit www.juno.com
>
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