Re: Bloodroot... WOW
So, Brian
Are you offering to share and start some new colonies? I'm sure I could find
a spot : ) Maybe a trade for a start of something I have? I've got a
gorgeous little blue balloon flower (Campanula) that has seeded around
nicely.
Judy B
z 6 Idaho rainy & warmish (40F) the past few days.
"CBRIAN" <CBRIAN@attcanada.ca>
wrote:
...I am growing the fully double beautiful bloodroot variety that was
almost
> lost to cultivation. This mutation was discovered in Dayton, Ohio in 1916.
> It differed from our native variety in that it is sterile; it can have
sixty
> long lasting petals rather than the eight or twelve flighty ones of the
> native variety; it has larger leaves and rhizomes; and it cannot survive
> without regular division. If left alone, it crowds to the surface where it
> dries and dies. This was the fate of the discoverer's colony after his
death
> in 1966. A rhizome had been given to the famed plant hunter, E.H. Wilson
> who named it 'Sanguinaria canadensis variety multiplex' to distinguish it
> from the fourteen to sixteen petalled variety, 'flore- pleno' but it
> apparently suffered a similar fate after Wilson's tragic death. Another
> rhizome was given to Henry Teuscher, the director emeritus of the Montreal
> Botanical Garden, who generously propagated it and shared it with
gardeners
> around the world, ensuring its survival.
>
> To me, the survival of this beautiful bloodroot mutation not only
underlines
> the importance of keen botanical observation but also the importance of
> sharing our horticultural treasures.
>
> Does anybody grow the 'flore pleno ' variety? Can it and the 'TN'
variety
> produce seed or are they sterile as well?
>
> Brian Carson Zn5a
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