RE: lime loving plants

Thanks, Kitty!  And lest I miss the opportunity, Happy Valentines Day to
all!

Blessings,
Bonnie

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf
Of Kitty
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 9:56 AM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] lime loving plants

Bonnie,
I think it's a grass, probably one of these:
Elytrigia
Agropyron
Elytrigia

Kitty

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bonnie & Bill Morgan" <wmorgan972@ameritech.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 12:18 AM
Subject: RE: [CHAT] lime loving plants


> "Bearded Twitch?"  Did I miss something for the "Beard garden?"  I
couldn't
> find anything (plant wise) by that common name.  Anyone else have a guess
at
> a botanical name?
>
> Blessings,
> Bonnie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
Behalf
> Of Kitty
> Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 12:23 AM
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] lime loving plants
>
> Here's some googles.....
>
> The limestone makes the soil calcium rich and provides a suitable habitat
> for certain lime-loving plants such as Rock Rose, Thyme, Wild Strawberry
and
> Bottle Sedge. Rarer lime loving plants are Astragalus and Northern
Felwort.
>
> Some lime-loving plants such as flowering cherries...
>
> Watch your pH. Trying to grow lime-loving plants (lavender, pinks,
> clematis)....
>
> If you have alkaline soil choose lime loving plants,...There are several
> varieties of Clematis you will enjoy, hebes are not fussy and poppy's and
> meconopsis will run riot in an alkaline garden.
>
> grow lime loving plants ...Some of the most popular alpine plants like the
> Edelwei_ (Leontopodium alpinum), the Auricula (Primula auricula) or the
> Alpine Aster (Aster alpinus) belong to them...
>
> Care must be taken with lime loving plants, like pinks....
>
> Calcicole (lime loving) plants include Fraxinus (Ash), Honeysuckle
> (Lonicera), Buddleia, Cornus spp (dogwoods), and Clematis spp...
>
> Some plants associated with the Carboniferous limestone and also the
> lime-rich sandstones of Lough Navar Forest:
>
> Asplenium marinum
> Asplenium ruta-muraria
> Asplenium viride
> Equisetum pratense
> Polystichum lonchitis
> Trichomanes speciosum
> Arabis hirsuta
> Briza media
> Dryas octopetala
> Euphrasia salisburgensis
> Juniperus communis
> Meconopsis cambrica
> Orthilia secunda
> Polypodium cambricum
> Pseudorchis albida
> Pyrola media
> Pyrola minor
> Saxifraga aizoides
> Sedum rosea
> Sesleria caerulea
>
>  Alkaline soil suits lime-loving plants such as alpines and many
vegetables,
> especially brassicas (kale, rape, swede and turnip). ...
>
> with such lime-loving species as quaking grass, field scabious and salad
> burnet... more lime-loving species, including musk thistles which
attracted
> several butterflies.
>
>  The following lime-loving species live in this habitat:
> Ostrya virginiana hop hornbeam
> Ranunculus abortivus small flowered crowfoot
> Hapatica americana hepatica
> Geranium robertianum herb Robert
>
> and saw such lime-loving plants as the three Spleenworts, Asplenium
> adiantum-nigrum, A. trichomanes and A. ruta-muraria, Stone Bramble, Early
> Purple Orchid, Hoary Whitlow Grass and Downy Oat, but it was pleasant to
see
> also such things as Bearded Twitch, Geulder Rose and Upright Currant....
>
> Some calcicole plants like the Early Purple Orchid are quite rare.
>
> Well, that's a start anyway.
>
> Kitty
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Pamela J. Evans" <gardenqueen@gbronline.com>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 8:40 PM
> Subject: [CHAT] lime loving plants
>
>
> > Anyone have any favorites that really like limey soil? A friend at work
> > wants to plant a garden but the soil is very alkaline which is not the
> > case here. She's also just North of here, probably borderline zones 7
> > and 8. Not much she can do to amend it because she gets run off from a
> > trailer park or something that keeps it that way....
> >
> >
> > I've got a book w/ a list of such but darned if I can find it right
now!!
> >
> > thanks y'all!
> >
> > --
> > Pam Evans
> > Kemp TX/zone 8A
> >
> >
> >
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