Re: REB: IMMORTALITY (was: I'm so excited!)

From: Linda Mann <lmann@icx.net>

Annette Milch in Kentucky wrote
> Yes, IMMORTALITY can bloom within a short time after planting. It
> seems
> to like clay soils, and not much fertilizer. Others in my zone can't grow
> it. 

I got a big chuckle out of this - in MY garden, IMMORTALITY luxuriates
in very gravelly loam with lots of organic matter, heavy doses of
alfalfa, and heavy doses 3 to 5 times a year of 10-10-10 with trace
minerals.  One clump had fresh horse manure 6 inches deep as mulch
between rows. :>) I'm in zone 7/8, same Region 7 as Annette, around ?150
miles south.  

Seriously, IMMORTALITY does have a reputation for being fussy to get
established and seems to vary a lot from garden to garden in how happy
it is.  Nobody on list has offered an explanation for why (other than my
half baked idea about trace elements).  I guess I could experiment with
and without trace elements and see what happens now that I have two big
clumps of it that could be divided.

Linda Mann east Tennessee USA
cooler temps finally!  Envying Kathy Guest's visit with David Schreiner
and her near brush with frost.



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