Re: Lesser Celandine (was source of cuttings
- Subject: Re: Lesser Celandine (was source of cuttings
- From: Tony and Moira Ryan t*@xtra.co.nz
- Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 17:09:32 +1200
Loren Russell wrote:
>
> And then there's the well-known nurseryman [who shall be anonymous!] who
> showed the beautiful plant, unknown to him, that he found at the local
> dump. It was the lesser celandine, Ranunculus ficaria, an uneradicable
> bane on heavy, vernally-moist soils in the Pacific Northwest.
>
One of the plants an old friend would have classed as "very naughty"!
I am lucky it is quite tame in my particular patch and makes a pleasant
spring ground cover in both a shrubbery and one ornamental bed, dying
away tidily soon after flowering. I have a charming mixture of the
different varieties. besides the wild golden-yellow single I have a
copper one and a very pretty cream and the gold again in most
attractive double form. All these diffient ones do reproduce by seed
but very politely and I am well able to prevent them spreading beyond
their allotted spaces, obviously a soil/climate difference between my
area and yours makes them less rampageous.
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
