Re: CULT: Spuria
- To: Multiple recipients of list <i*@rt66.com>
- Subject: Re: CULT: Spuria
- From: L* R* <l*@loc.gov>
- Date: Thu, 3 Jul 1997 06:43:38 -0600 (MDT)
On Wed, 2 Jul 1997 Ian E. Efford wrote:
> spurias have quite distinctive leaves - tend to whitish and distict
> parallel veins. Falls are much more narrow and separate from each other
> like three spokes of a wheel.
***I grow only one spuria--LYDIA JANE--but the leaves are very dark green
and I don't recall any veins. (The description of the falls sounds
right.) Is it a difference in our growing conditions, or does the foliage
vary with different cultivars?
Lois Rose, in Central Virginia
25 mi. SW of Fredericksburg in southern Spotsylvania County
on a little hill overlooking my murkey farm pond in the middle of 50 acres
USDA Zone 7; peak TB bloom May 15
