Re: Phlox Starfire
- Subject: Re: Phlox Starfire
- From: E*@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 17:20:22 EDT
In a message dated 8/6/02 4:34:10 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
corgilover@wi.rr.com writes:
<< Why would this happen . . . and can I divide it accordingly and get a
purple with pink eyes plant? >>
I don't know you would not try if you wanted to. Tie some marker on the
stems you want to remove from the clump. You can pull up a whole clump of
Phlox and replant it and it is as nothing happened, especially the old forms.
Many books recommend you keep any old form Phlox that you like and find
disease free. An awful lot of the new ones do not look much different than
those found on old properties. Some the newer ones seem to have huge trusses
of flowers.
Phlox is usually multiplied by root cuttings, not seedlings, to keep the
colors pure so why not give it a try. If it were me doing this, I would have
to be careful to tag the separated parts and keep a calendar note of what I
had done or I would surely forget it the following spring.
A great many new plants are "found" just like that growing somewhere until a
horticulturally savvy person notices it. Not all are from some complicated
breeding program.
Claire Peplowski
NYS z4
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