Re: OT:Chat -Thanks (was HIST: Irises and grave sites)

Thanks again Griff.

I was reading your message and thought "MYRTLE"?  The only thing I could
think of was CREPE MYRTLE and it doesn't fit your description.

Then I got to the VINCA MINOR and there was lots of it in the cemetery.  I
had thought perhaps it was native to the area.  The next time we have a
work day, we'll do some probing in those patches for stones.

As I said in my previous message I learn all sorts of things on this talk
group and enjoy each and every message.

Mickey
Bethany, OK, Center of Oklahoma, USA
Zone 6/7


Message text written by INTERNET:iris@hort.net
>Mickey  --  Here in Virginia, where European settlers have been for almost
400 years, now, there are some pretty old and forgotten grave sites.  I
have
found pre-Revolutionary gravestones standing in the woods while hunting.
The farmsteads are long gone; the stones remain.

Several years ago, I was searching some woods in New Kent County for a
couple of Crump gravestones.  My companion was the county historian.  He
advised me to look for myrtle, since, he said, earlier generations had
planted myrtle on the graves to keep them weed-free.  Thinking of a
myrtle-covered area of my back yard, I could see what he meant.  The myrtle
does prevent anything else, and stays low to the ground itself.  I don't
know if iris would be hardy enough to coexist with it, but if you would
rather have myrtle than weeds, it might be your solution.  It's important
to
note, though, that while we call this plant myrtle in this part of the
country, it isn't a true myrtle.  It is really vinca minor, sometimes also
called periwinkle.  It has small blue flowers in the spring.  --  Griff

zone 7 in Virginia
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