Re: Help identifying hellebores?/ companion plants
- Subject: Re: Help identifying hellebores?/ companion plants
- From: M* T*
- Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 02:51:15 -0400
Perhaps you do:-) Mine doesn't bloom until May!
Any of the Carex that do not demand really moist soil and have
variegated foliage should be interesting...at least to my mind.
While finding something that blooms with the Hellebores is marvelous,
what I am really looking for is something that will set off the dark
flowered forms so they don't die - color-wise - into the mulch, if
you see what I mean.
Yes..planting time! I have so much clean up to do, the garden is
simply screaming at me, but spent this weekend and this evening in
the "simple" task of planting out 5 baby Magnolia grandiflora I grew
from seed. 99% of the time has been spent in clearing the area of
weedy material and digging up countless clumps of wild garlic, but
they are now in the ground and once I haul some mulch up there, I can
get back to spring clean up...then I get to plant:-)
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@hort.net
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> From: Gene Bush <genebush@otherside.com>
> Hello Marge,
> Perhaps I need to send you some of my Phlox divaricata are in
bud now
> and will be in bloom by this coming week. Of course hellebore x
hybridus has
> been in bloom since February late. Some of the white blooming phlox
would go
> well with the primula veris as well... the phlox divaricata has a
blue cast
> to the foliage making a nice background for the white blooms and
the that in
> turn would go well with the crinkly crisp green of the primula
foliage with
> yellow blooms.
> Have to think about the carex... have several out here to play
with that
> are variegated and evergreen. Was saving mine to go with the
foliage of
> Pulmonaria to brighten up a raised bed area.. perhaps with some of
the new
> ferns such as "Ghost". All I have to do is find the time of do some
planting
> this spring.
> Gene E. Bush
> Munchkin Nursery & Gardens,LLC
> genebush@munchkinnursery.com
> www.munchkinnursery.com
> Southern Indiana Zone 6
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Marge Talt" <mtalt@hort.net>
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