Re: RE:CULT:Hardy Pinks

In a message dated 4/5/01 8:40:52 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
wmoores@watervalley.net writes:

<<  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.   >>
Walter and all,
            I should have some input on this subject this year and next year, 
I'm growing several pinks to see what will do the best here in South 
Carolina.   Although I'm in the town of Myrtle Beach, I am not on the 
beach...in fact a good mile or so back and in a wooded neighborhood.
OUr soil is still pretty much sand with a top layer of good stuff.   Pinks 
I'm trying to grow:  OVATION (will get that this fall)
                          ALICE GOODMAN
                          DIRECT FLIGHT
                           PINK N MINT
                           JUICY FRUIT
                          CORAL CHARMER, CORAL SUNSET
I am assuming that the "coral" colors are similar in growth/habits to the 
pinks?    I also have IBs: ROYAL FLIRT, HUG A BUNCH, COUNTRY DANCE
so we'll see how those fare as well.    Pale pinks are not my favorites so I 
do lean towards coral/peachy pinks or deep blue-pinks.   I'd love to see a 
chart of hybridizers and the areas they do their work in, like  maybe a map 
that has all the hybridizer's initials on the spot where they live/work.
Would make it easy to choose cold climate or warm climate cultivars based on 
where they were "born".  Oh, if I only had the time...

Janet Natale
zone 8 of Sc, Myrtle Beach   

 

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