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Old Garden Plants (fwd)

Medit-plant members, Peter Klement:  In  response to my message about
companion plants for old roses, I received this reply, and am forwarding
it to all of you.
Thanks Alisdair.
With regards,
Elly Bade


---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 03:43:13 -0500
From: Alisdair <Alisdair@compuserve.com>
To: "INTERNET:bade@math.berkeley.edu" <bade@math.berkeley.edu>
Subject: Old Garden Plants

I'm sending you this privately as a change of my computer ID means that
listproc for medit-plants won't believe I'm a subscriber and keeps bouncing
my messages back - I can't deal with the problem by unsubscribing under the
old ID (as I can't send messages with that) and resubscribing under my new
one, and none of my desperate help appeals to the listowner have produced
any result!

Anyway...

I'd suggest cyclamen species, which were certainly in cultivation even at
the time of the oldest Old Roses. They go particularly well with roses
because (1) they flower fall/winter/spring when roses are just thorns (2)
like rose roots they resent disturbance (3) they seem to enjoy competition
from rose roots. C. hederifolium is the obvious one. C. cilicium and C.
coum would be the next. I think even C. persicum would do well at Berkeley.

For old pinks, has he tried Rand Lee? He signs himself as Rand Lee,
Horticultural Writer & Editor
President and Founder, American Dianthus Society
(http://www.nhn.uoknor.edu/%7Ehoward/ads.html)
Editor, American Cottage Gardener ( http://trine.com/GardenNet/ACG/)

If you want to forward any of this to medit-plants, please do!

Alisdair Aird (Sussex, England)
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