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Re: Plant names

Hi again.  Just thought I'd share a tidbit with you: when I worked in a
nursery I found out that Laurentia fluviatilis, which is generally called
isotoma by nurserypeople and landscapers around here (Santa Cruz), is just
about the easiest plant in the world to propagate.  When the flats get a bit
overgrown, you take a pair of hedge trimmers and shear off the excess growth.
Then you spread the clippings fairly thinly on a flat of moistened soil, cover
lightly with more soil (so that there's good contact between the clippings and
the soil, but light can still reach most of the greenery), and keep fairly
moist.  Within a couple of weeks the clippings will root all along their
stems; within a month (or six weeks, in cool weather) you'll have a whole new
flat of isotoma.  I found that I could produce over a hundred flats an hour
using this method!

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Date: 1/27/97 7:48 PM
To: Phil Stevens
From: Madeleine Ward
Hi Phil,

My name is Madeleine and I live in Southern California and
am new to the list.  Read your mail and found Laurentia
fluviatilis described in my Sunset Western Garden Book,
40th Anniversary Edition.  I love this book because it
lists and describes 6,000 plants grown and sold in
western nurseries.  The Laurentia, or Blue Star Creeper
is a perennial ground cover.  

Hope this helps.  
On 27 Jan 1997 08:32:12 -0800 "Phil Stevens"
<phil_stevens@macmail.ucsc.edu> writes:
>Howdy all.
>
>Does anyone on this list know where I can look to get some plant names
>verified?  It seems that half of the plants in the Thompson and Morgan 
>catalog
>aren't listed in the new RHS Index of Garden Plants.  I thought the 
>Index was
>supposed to be authoritative -- the successor to Hortus Third, and all 
>that. 
>And yet entire genera (such as Laurentia, for example, which I was 
>pretty sure
>was a valid genus name) listed by T&M are nowhere to be found, even as
>synonyms.  Any suggestions?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Phil
>
>

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