Re: JAP: Extending bloom/depth of planting

Dennis Hager wrote:

 <<One of my stated goals of gardening is extended bloom and I would like
 to report on a little experiment I conducted to do just that. I divided
..Iapetus' ... last fall. I planted 2 as usual... One was planted  higher
and two deeper.....The two plants that were planted deeper were slower to
emerge. I had almost given one up for dead.  But eventually, it grew and
 bloomed 3 weeks later than the control plants.>>

Fascinating! I've heard of the same sort of procedure used to manipulate
bloom on bulbs, especially tulips,  and other perennials. I assume all the
plants, control and test subjects received precisely the same light and none
were near heat radiating structures, large rocks or anything? Perhaps someone
with a lot of Siberians to divide might try the same procedure and let us
know what happens. Siberians, however, are very hardy and I have noticed,
especially this year when the earlier season over-stimulated a lot of stuff
and bloom sequences were atypical, that those plants which bloomed precisedly
according to their norm were the very long lived, very hardy, very stable
perennials such as peonies and polygonatum. 

Thanks, Dennis, for sharing the interesting, and potentially very valuable,
information. 

Anner Whitehead, Richmond, VA
Henry Hall, henryanner@aol.com
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