Re: 61-degree heat wave

I guess chicory doesn't grow down this far. Too wet, maybe. But it grew everywhere else I've lived, I think.


On Sunday, January 11, 2004, at 10:39 AM, Bonnie Holmes wrote:

One of my favorite summer bouquets, and the subject of one of Jim Gray's
paintings, is one of Queen Anne's Lace, Rudbeckia, and wild chicory. In
some of the meadows and on some of the edges of highways, we often see QA's
Lace and chicory growing together. The chicory seems to prefer the area
next to the road where the soil is more compact and hot.

Bonnie Zone 6+ ETN




[Original Message]
From: Bonnie & Bill Morgan <wmorgan972@ameritech.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Date: 01/10/2004 2:16:33 PM
Subject: RE: [CHAT] 61-degree heat wave

Jim, we have a good deal of wild chicory growing around here, mostly
thought
of as weeds. The flowers are lovely, but they are presented on those
bare
stems at leafless, or nearly leafless, nodes along the stems, and most
folks
don't give them a second glace because of that. (Of course they spread
like
crazy here, too. That could be another reason they are thought of as
weeds.) I do think they have one of the clearest, cleanest blues in the
plant world.

Now if I could just confine some Queen Ann's Lace with wild chicory
interspersed, that would make a sensational pressed flower garden! Of
course, whether the Queen Ann's Lace or the chicory would win out in the
struggle for dominance is anyone's guess. :>)

Blessings,
Bonnie (SW OH - zone 5)

-----Original Message-----
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Of james singer
Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 4:24 PM
To: Chat
Subject: [CHAT] 61-degree heat wave

Was 61 at 6 this morning and has been falling ever since. Of course, up
where the short one's kids live it's been in negative numbers all day.
I've done my best to forget what that's like, however. Must be some
Puritan need for self-flagellation that makes them want to live there.

All of our christmas cacti have decided to bloom this week in spite of
the cranky weather. Not just the yellow and purple we acquired last
weekend but the red and yellow and pink ones that have been hanging out
here for a few years. Blue--some genetic engineer needs to slip the
color gene from chicory into the Schlumbergia gene pool. Now that would
be sensational. The wild chicory has to most beautiful shade of blue of
any flower anywhere. Bright. Electric.


Island Jim
Southwest Florida
Zone 10

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