Re: GET THIS, FOLKS/BOG GARDENS

rimat wrote:
> 
> Hi Everyone--
> 
> This is a strange one (unless some of you have had this happen).  A
> friend moved here to upstate NY zne 4 and dug up several of his TBs that
> had already bloomed in alabama.  He gave me some and I planted them.
> they look TERRIBLE.....falling down, turning brown, very very sad.
> Except that on my morning round of the beds, Inoticed that a bloom stalk
> is appearing on one of the worst looking ones (which also fell over
> during the night).  Not that the bud looks so terrific, mind you.
> 
> And to all of you who have encouraged me to be patient, you were right.
> I have several bloomstalks in the bed where I put in 24 new irises last
> spring.  And of course my Very Superior Old Irises are thriving with 12
> bloomstalks so far (and I know there will be more to come).  However,
> all th eiris clumps in the partly shadey/partly sunny berm are super
> foliage/no bloomstalks.
> 
> Siberians--O, Psuedacorus--5 (so far).
> 
> Also Dicentra, viburnum, lilacs are all i blooms and the hostas are
> lookin' good.
> 
> On the subject of bog gardens, all I can say is Thank God I have a pond.
> 
> Rima  terra@catskill.net
> upstate ny zone 4


Patience is the prayer of the gardener.  All things in their time.

Al Limberg
Concord, CA
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