Re: tectorum hardiness

The tectorum I grew came from Mark Cook when he lived in Kentucky. So it came from down 'south'.
 
Ellen

Ellen Gallagher <ellengalla@yahoo.com> wrote:
I used to grow tectorum (not the variegated variety) at my former home 30 miles from here and it did well. I live in mountains with snow cover which provides a nice mulch here in USDA Zone 3 where we are in sub-zero temps each morning. No spring here yet.
 
Ellen Gallagher / Berlin, New Hampshire

Ken Walkup <krw25@cornell.edu> wrote:
Jim wrote:
        PS: Tectorum is proving difficult here but grew well in my city 
garden before I moved. It is quite happy at my 'dacha' one hundred 
miles south of my current suburban garden. I think I am at the razors 
edge of it's hardiness.
        
        So Jim is saying Kansas City is the northern limit of its hardiness.  I have read or heard many other opinions that tectorum is not a plant for northern gardens, but I'm in a cold zone 5, in the Finger Lakes region of NY state, and here tectorum is very happy.  It's found at every neighborhood plant exchange.  There's a mystery here about why it does well in some northern areas and not others.
        Ken





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