Re: Heat/new heucheras

In a message dated 8/16/02 7:32:46 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
cherylisaak@adelphia.net writes:

<< http://www.primrosepath.com/
 leads to a rock groups website!
 is this a new form of rock gardening! >>

Probably not unless you want to take up rock gardening.  Admittedly, the best 
gardeners are in the rocks groups, even if they do not do much alpine 
gardening.

For some reason that I cannot explain, rock gardeners attempting to grow 
plant that are very small (rule of thumb - under 30 cm. ) and grow "tight" 
and are from high places ( formand shapes are important)  also get into 
woodland gardening.

You find articles on woodlanders in the Rocks journal all the time and they 
have adopted triliums, hepaticas and the like as part of the rocks domain.  
So the Primrose Path would have rock gardeners as customers, would also offer 
their plants to these groups.

The is some overlap between a specialist in shade gardening and rock 
gardening.  At the annual fall sale of my chapter, there are numerous shade 
and woodland plants as well as small rhododendron and not so small native 
rhododendrons grown from seed.  In general, as there are no hard and fast 
definitions, rock gardeners prefer to grow plants from seed and the sale 
plants are ID'd by genus and species.  Cultivars are sometimes, sort of 
sniffed at but they always sell.  It seems very important to label a hybrid, 
a hybrid.  

Some plants are far easier to grow in hybrid forms as they are stronger and 
often more attractive so being a purist is a rock gardener public stance but 
he usually grows everything he can get his hand on, same as everyone else.

In truth there a many who are very well versed in certain species and certain 
areas of the planet where they collect.  They keep very good records and 
preserve rare plants.  It is very restraining to confine yourself to one or 
two species and a narrow area of gardening.  To each his own.

Claire Peplowski
( now  probably going to hear about some truths )

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