Re: Lysimachias

Hello Val
>Valerie Lowery@ZEON
>04/22/98 12:43 PM
>
>Can anyone help me out?  I just bought two different varieties:  lysimachia
>punctata 'ALEXANDER' (a variegated plant -- gorgeous colors of white and
>pink-- with white flowers) and lysimachia ciliata 'FIRECRACKER' (a deep
>reddish purple-leaved plant with nodding yellow flowers).

I have both these plants I bought then last summer so that this will be
their first season with me.

Spreading doesn't seem to be a problem on my heavy clay.

>I know that these will spread (and that's OK for now), but does anybody
>else know much about these two varieties and their culture? 


Don't know about L c "Firecracker" but it was quite funny when I bought L
punctata "Alexander's"at Harrogate Flower Show last spring. I had bought
some lovely unusual perennials at a nursery stand and the owner said that
she was impressed by my choices and askedif i would be interested in
something special. When i gave an affirmative nod she  guardedly produced
L p "Alexander's" from under the counter and sang its praises as as specila
plant. She said she would only sell it to me if i really promised to look
after it!

She told me that it would only grow in good soil and could only be
propogated successfully from root cuttings taken in the Autumn, stem
cuttings are no good (Although another nursery owner I know disputes this)

I am relieved to relate that my plant has survived.[ I hate to tell you how
many of my plants get killed by me. ( My gardening friend Shelia tells me
that whn she walks around a garden with me I chant a mantra that goes like
this: OH loooooook! I had one of those but it died :-))))]


Not only has "Alexander's" survived but it has a few more stems than last
year which are slowly emerging from the soil in the form of little bright
carmine fluffy balls. Thye look like tiny bits of candy floss (Cotton
Candy) on the surface of the soil.

I had a bad planting season last year and lost loads of stuff,
 Funnily enough I lost Phlox paniculata "Nora Leigh" but kept "Harlequin "
which is meant to be the weaker plant.

One plant that threatens to be rampant from a plant bought last summer is
Epilobium hirsutum "Well Creek"

Well I suppose that I must expect that if I plant weeds!

Sorry to ramble.

Hope that  this helps

 I can't find
>specifics in any of my books or on the Internet.  Any different from the
>species as a whole?  I have purposely put these in pure clay soil, in full
>sun, with no additional moisture just to control the spreading.  Seems to
>be working too well with the lysimachia punctata, as I would love to have
>more of that plant.  It's going in a different location for this season.
>
>Thanks in advance!
>
>Val in KY (zone 6a)

Colette Dunkley
Upton Wirral Merseyside England Approximates USDA Zones 8/9
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