Re: shady rock gardens, NARGS & Cyclamen was: seed import permits

Yes, this year's NARGS seed is safely in the US and let's hope some
intelligence prevails before next year's deadline.

Yes, I know one can have a shady rock garden; have simply not gotten
around to building one as I have no natural rock outcroppings.  Have
found, actually, that a lot of plants love rocks; do not have to be
even tiny ones or those generally considered "rock garden" plants.  

I do have cyclamen...not from NARGs, but from a distribution put out
by a very nice Italian gentleman of seed collected in Crete and
Greece...this year is their first in the garden, where they seem to
have settled in and bloomed and I have high hopes of one day having
the great swaths of them seen previously only in books...the only way
to get that is to be rich as Croesus or grow from seed:-)

I know Ellen Hornig, who sells lots of lovely Cyclamen (and more neat
plants) from her Seneca Hill Perennials Nursery, 

http://www.senecahill.com/

is in upstate NY and successfully grows some in the garden.   But, I
see on checking that she considers her garden z5b and I think you're
4?  Still and all, you might contact her about what might survive for
you...hate to think you can't grow these guys.  

I do grow some in pots, too...the florist's C. persicum, C. graecum
(which might prove hardy for me, but don't want to chance it) and C.
creticum, which will never be hardy for me...they flower in the cool
g.h. in winter (now as a matter of fact and on) and are well worth
trying if you've got a cool room with an east window.  Love
Cyclamen!!!!

Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@clark.net
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Claire said: 
> All true Marge.  This year's seed is already in this country.  The
trouble 
> will appear next year when it is hoped some solutions to barring
seed trades 
> will be found.
> 
> I do have a rock garden and you could have a shady rock garden.  I
got a 
> shady rock garden by have two trees become so large that the sun
disappeared. 
>  Then I found quite a few small rocky plants liked it there.  If
the shade is 
> deciduous,  it can be covered with early species crocus which are
all done 
> when the tree leaf out.  You could have cyclamen (we cannot) and
many, many 
> other tiny plants that like rock crevices.
> 
> Marge's account is very accurate.  Anyone wanting an assortment of
strange 
> and wonderful seeds can belong to NARGS.  The seeds are collected
by members 
> so there are often surprises in the packets.  I have grown three
species of 
> kalimeris from this seed and have yet to get the one I am after
although all 
> are pretty nice.
> 
> Claire Peplowski
> NYS z4

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