> To: perennials@hort.net
> Subject: RE: Double bloodroot in my garden this spring
> Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 07:01:52 -0400
> From: 1018@rewrite.hort.net
>
> Price alert!
> I mentiond Joe Pye Weed's Garden in another post. I was just looking at their offerings and if anyone who doesn't already have Multiplex would like to stop drooling and get their own, I see that JPWG has it for only $12. That's not bad.
>
> Kitty
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-perennials@hort.net [mailto:owner-perennials@hort.net] On Behalf Of Christopher P. Lindsey
> Sent: Monday, April 27, 2015 9:02 PM
> To: perennials@hort.net
> Subject: Re: Double bloodroot in my garden this spring
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Kitty Morrissy" <1018@rewrite.hort.net>
> >
> > Was about to say it was too late as I thought mine were already done.
> > But I just went out to check and there are a few flowers yet below the
> > leaves. They look a bit whimpier than the ones that were flowering
> > last week, but I pulled 3 to see what they had. Petal counts were 48,
> > 49, and 53. I got mine in 2003 from Ellen Hornig’s Seneca Hill. (I
> > actually found my invoice) She labeled them as Sanguinaria Canadensis
> > ‘Multiplex’. The patch has spread slowly, but they are just so lovely.
> > I look forward to them every spring.
>
> Kitty, I just checked my records as well and see that mine also came from Seneca Hill in 2003. Great minds?
>
> I suspect that mine will were the same as yours in terms of petal count then, but they have passed and I'll have to check next year.
>
> I had a 16-petaled one that spontaneously showed up in my yard once, but it didn't prove as hardy as the straight species and has since disappeared. There's a picture of it in the hort.net gallery at
>
> https://www.hort.net/gallery/view/pap/sancafp
>
> I probably shouldn't have listed it as 'Flore Pleno', but just as a multi-petal form.
>
> Chris
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