Re: moving dicentra


> I really didn't note my bloom time this spring (got to start using that
> diary-I buy one every year and never put an entry in it), 
	I always have incomplete notes, too,  but I do see that it was in 
bloom the second week of April, April 15 being our average last frost 
date.  

but it is one of
> the earliest bloomers among the perennials, and it keeps on blooming until
> cold weather kills it back to ground level.  That's about the same 6 month
> frame that your Snowflake does, but in your climate it might well run
> longer.
> Luxuriant is a dwarf cultivar as I understand it-12 inches tall on average,
> and mine may not quite make that.  Maybe 2 1/2 ft across after 3 years.
> It's great for smaller gardens.
> I had understood that Luxuriant was the first "all summer" blooming cultivar
> of exima but my memory is shaky on some things.  I have to start looking for
> "Snowflake".  Luxuriant's pink flowers are very pretty, but I'd love a white
> cultivar as well.

	I bought my plants from Wayside but Park Seed has them now, too,
and of course they're less expensive from Park.    I found my Park 
catalog since I posted about this so I'll give you the lowdown.  The 
white one is 'Snowdrift' (too many cultivar names with "snow" in them 
to keep them all straight!) and the catalog says the foliage is 12" 
high and "one of the longest-blooming of all shade plants!  Pretty 
white flowers from late spring to frost!"  About 'Luxuriant' it says, 
"Five months of nonstop pink!  From midspring to midfall, it produces 
and abundant, nonstop display of cherry-pink blossoms"  yada yada 
yada.  They claim it gets 18" tall but I thought I'd read elsewhere 
it was a dwarf, as your experience bears out.     Both cv's are $5.95 
ea;  3 of one variety for $15.95; or 2 of each variety for $18.95.  
'Snowdrift' has beautiful foliage and blooms through our hot summers, 
which makes it a *great* perennial in my estimation.   I expect 
'Luxuriant' to be just as great.


Kate Lykins

"Had I but four square feet of ground at my disposal,
 I would plant a peony in the corner and proceed to worship." 
                              --  Alice Harding

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