Re: Stellar & crocks
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- Subject: Re: [IGSROBIN] Stellar & crocks
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- Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 20:10:34 +0100
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I think 'easter star' is in fact 'easter morning', there is a stellar called
'peppermint star' though. I think the nursery has got the name wrong.
Andy Meek
Birmingham. England.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gwen & Brian Ward" <briangwen@HULLBROOK.FREESERVE.CO.UK>
To: <IGSROBIN@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU>
Sent: 05 April 2000 19:02
Subject: Stellar & crocks
> I have just purchased a 3 Stellar's from a local nursery - Easter Star I
> have seen in Mia Esser's wonderful book, Chine is referred to on Ron &
Wendy
> Mitchell's list of miniature & dwarf pelargoniums, and Rimey. Does
anyone
> know anything about these three, particularly Rimey as I can find no
> reference to it?
>
> Regarding Catia's comments about placing a net over the hole on the base
of
> pots, the late Jim Woods suggests, in his book, Pelargoniums, a complete
> guide to their cultivation, placing a spent tea bag at the bottom of the
> pot. The pelargonium is, apparently compatible with tannic acid.
> Regards
> Gwen Ward
