Re: 100 degrees/ Gentiana saponaria

Hello Frank,
    I have been growing Gentiana saponaria (puberulenta) for some years now.
I let lobelia crowd out two of my plants over the years and I am not left
with just one. Time to transplant some more. I do have some pots of
seedlings, but I am waiting until I can arrange an area where I can again
have several mature plants in one area for a "really big shew". The one I
have is a dependable and heavy bloomer lasting from September well into
mid-December with blooms. Good seed producer as well.
    I also let me G. scabra get choked out over time and I just replanted it
this past week in a drift of 4 plants. I hope to get around to trying some
more sino-orta in the future. I had some and ended up selling all of them
and forgot to keep some back for my own  garden. Along with several other
species. Love those gentiana.
    I am considering a "English" peat bed. Where you dig your hole, line it
with pond liner and then place bales of compressed peat inside, leaving them
in blocks. Then water.... nothing but pure peat. Ever try that one? Anyone??
    Gene E. Bush
Munchkin Nursery & Gardens, llc
www.munchkinnursery.com
genebush@munchkinnursery.com
Zone 6/5  Southern Indiana

----- Original Message -----

> Yes any of the acid loving gentian cannot have any of my tap water.  I
also
> use a RO filter.  I discovered this spring that I get almost no seedling
> loss when I use RO water even for the pots that are covered with a dome.
The
> only difference between the bog area and blueberry patch, both of which
are
> peat moss and do not get any tap water,  is that I put a layer of leaf
mould
> covered with a pine mulch in the blueberry patch.  The gentian that
suffers
> more gets a little shade from the blueberries and the healthy one is on
the
> south edge of the sarracenia.  It is lush green with no wilting.  I went
> with the idea of very wet when I saw nice. sino-ornata grown in a soggy
peat
> tub by Phil Doonan (sp?) at Grand Ridge. They really need a lot of light
so
> I have found that you can get away with over watering these types of
plants
> that need the sun provided you do not use any tap or ground water.  The
rots
> tend to not be able to grow in the peat.  Primula in the farinosa section
> are like this.  I am getting seedlings of bluets spreading around not.  My
> system has worked.  Under normal conditions it is an impossible plant.  I
> have put them in the dry portions of the bog where they won't get any tap
> water.  They are sensitive to chlorine.  They are sowing in fairly wet
area
> and in the dry pathway next to the shed in the gravel.  For the first time
I
> have a bunch of mistassinica seedlings to try out.  Forget what I just
said.
> I just looked at the one the blueberry patch and it looks great.  It is
> "Graham bluebird".  My Habenaria ciliaris is starting to bloom with two
> spikes, magnificent and easy.   What an incredible year, I even have
> Caceolaria volunteers (the aphids noticed too).  Do you grow puberulenta?
> The ones that people grow and the seed exchanges have doesn't look near as
> pretty as the wild ones around here.  Is it confusion with puberula which
is
> possibly the same as saponaria.

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