Re: Help growing Gaultheria procumbens

Hello Gale,
    If one does not pay close attention to cyclamen seed, ants will carry
every one of them away in a very short time. Seeds are in capsules with lots
of sweet goo that they love.
    Back to gaultheria... I see where mine are sending out new runners this
spring. There are little bronze-green-red shoots coming up in rows radiating
away from the mother plant. It is on the move. Pink ladyslippers have their
noses up about two inches now. Won't be long before the buds open.
    Gene E. Bush
Munchkin Nursery & Gardens, llc
www.munchkinnursery.com
genebush@munchkinnursery.com
Zone 6/5  Southern Indiana

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gale Link" <glink@att.net>

> <<I just wish the
> phlox stolonifera  and hardy cyclamens nearby would grow and spread !>>
>
> Where did I read (on this list?) that seeds of nearly all the spring
ephemerals are spread by ants??  I wonder if cyclamen come in that
category - mine seeded all the way across the driveway so they must have had
help.  Just give them time.
> Gale Link z6
>
> (wintergreen grows in the mountains here - acid, sandy soil.)

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