Re: RE:CULT:Hardy Pinks

    Cold hardiness is not the problem with pinks in the southern part of the U.S
where I garden.  It's the fact that most pinks just never get started.  I can get a
very large rhizome from a good supplier, plant it, and watch it fail to take root,
shrivel and die.  Even though a newly-planted rhizome may have 
increase, that increase never matures.  So, it is not a  cold snap or 
anything associated with winter hardiness that gets the pinks here.  
It is climate (heat, humidity, rain), soil conditions, genes, or a 
combination of the above, but not cold weather or rot.  The rhizome 
may eventually rot, but that is because it never started to grow.

Walter Moores
Enid Lake, MS USA 7/8



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