Re: Looking for plant ID
- Subject: Re: Looking for plant ID
- From: Tony and Moira Ryan t*@xtra.co.nz
- Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 12:58:02 +1300
Krzysztof Kozminski wrote:
>
> On Saturday, February 8, 2003, at 10:56 AM, david feix wrote:
>
> > I'd agree with John's i.d. of the Aristea as being A.
> > ecklonii. Take heed of John's warning on this plant
> > seeding itself around in the garden, it is incredibly
> > vigorous in a watered garden situation.
>
> Hmm. I haven't had a single seedling of this thing appear in four
> years. My watering is all drip under 3 inches of mulch, so maybe
> that's why.
just found this letter of yours (which I still amnged to refer to
correctly) in the wrong file after having proposed my counter-theory
about the identification.
Re your suggestion that mulching such as you describe might inhibit
seedlings - I have similar arrangements in a lot of my garden and have
never found this any bar to re-seeding. In fact the seedlings really
seem to like starting in the mulch!
Moira
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Tony & Moira Ryan,
Wainuiomata, North Island, NZ. Pictures of our garden at:-
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/cherie1/Garden/TonyandMoira/index.htm
