Re: Serendipity
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  • Subject: Re: Serendipity
  • From: A*@aol.com
  • Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 19:02:02 -0400 (EDT)
I tried to take a picture, but my computer wasn't cooperating, and the
picture I took wasn't that good anyway.  BUT
Today when I was researching another topic for the newsletter I write,
I, totally by accident, discovered my mystery plant!  It is
Eupatorium rugosum, or early white snakeroot. I don't know why it
is called "early" when it says it blooms from July into October.
Apparently it likes moist situations, so I guess this summer of
excessive rainfall is responsible for it's appearance.  It is certainly
not growing in a moist situation, and I can't even guess where it
came from or how it got into the crack in my walk.  
 
There is quite a bit about it online now that I know what to look for.
None of the pictures I find there look as full and bushy as my plant, 
but here is one that is pretty good,
_http://wisplants.uwsp.edu/scripts/detail.asp?SpCode=EUPRUGvRUG_ 
(http://wisplants.uwsp.edu/scripts/detail.asp?SpCode=EUPRUGvRUG) 
 
Apparently there is a cultivar with dark leaves called 'Chocolate' but
mine doesn't have the colored leaves.  However, I think it is a handsome
plant and I am delighted to have it.  It seems to be native to more
southern states, so I hope it will be hardy here.
 
 
In a message dated 9/16/2011 11:15:12 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
zemuly@comcast.net writes:

I agree with Bonnie. Save the seeds. Do you have a picture to share?

Sent from my iPhone

On Sep 16, 2011, at 5:53 PM, BONNIE_HOLMES <bonnie_holmes@comcast.net> 
wrote:

> What ever it is, you must save the seeds. You may have a new variety.
> I've never see white Joe Pye. I also have it growing in my gardens and
> love it.
> 
> 
> B 
> ETN Zone 7 
> Remember the River Raisin, the Alamo, the Maine, Pearl Harbor, 911. 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Aplfgcnys@aol.com 
> To: gardenchat@hort.net 
> Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 6:46:31 PM 
> Subject: [CHAT] Serendipity 
> 
> As you all know, I'm not a very neat gardener. I let things grow 
> where they want to, if I don't need the space for something else. 
> Especially wild flowers that some people call weeds, like my 
> beloved milkweeds. Another favorite that I let place itself is 
> Joe Pye weed, and I have had a handsome one in the front bed 
> this season. Well, I thought I had another coming along in a 
> crack in the front steps. Usually I have Columbine there in the 
> spring, and I thought I would let this grow until it got too big. 
> As the season advanced it didn't get as big as Joe Pye usually 
> does, but I thought it was probably because of the limited space 
> it was growing in - really just a crack. Also, it didn't bloom as 
> soon as the Joe Pye in the bed, but I told myself that it was 
> because it was in more shade. Well, it has finally bloomed, 
> very heavily, and it is white! What do I have? and where did it 
> come from? I have looked in the wildflower books, and online, 
> but nothing matches. It definitely is not Boneset, which is a 
> white flower in the same family. It's foliage and growth habit 
> is much like the blue Eupatorium coelestinum (some people 
> call it perennial Ageratum, which it it not) that I have a nice 
> bed of. The bloom is much the same, too, but it is bright 
> white. Any ideas? 
> Auralie 

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