2000 Scilla
- Subject: 2000 Scilla
- From: "Tiede, Karen E" k*@eds.com
- Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 08:07:29 -0500
> Gasp! Where in the world did you put 2000 Scilla? And are they 10,000
Scilla now? I probably have 1,000 here in my 80x100' garden - but not by
choice!
1. I have just over half an acre, which is about 2.5 times as much space,
for starters. My major trees are 2 pecans and one walnut, beneath which not
all that much grows. I put most of the scilla there--they were blooming in
the shade where they were, and I figured that even if the pecans and walnuts
stunted their growth (juglones), the scilla would still stumble along. They
do.
2. I put a lot around the back fence line, where I can let them ripen and
not care about "neat" too much. Their foliage gets hidden by the grasses
and cannas.
3. My taste in plants runs to "cheap and plentiful." There's no such thing
as "too much," esp. if it's a plant that can take care of itself.
Admittedly, I prefer the blue to the pink scilla and they interbreed so much
that I tend to get something in the middle, but there's not much else
(ajuga--almost indistinguishable) that blooms at the same time, and I'll
take whatever color I can get.
4. When I first saw the scilla blooming at their old house, I gasped. The
bed was about 100' back from the road, and it was a solid sheet of
blue/pink. I had no idea of what it was. Mine aren't quite to "solid
sheet" stage yet, but they can grow on till I get that effect. Many of the
2000 were tiny baby bulbs that had been so squeezed in a mature clump they
hadn't grown to blooming size. Suspect I'm going to get a pretty good
display this year.
I planted 1000 daffs two years ago, and added another 400 this year, and
probably rescued another 500 or so from abandoned houses, and I don't think
I've begun to fill the yard. Have you read the story about the woman who
had 50,000 daffs on 5 acres of hillside? That's what I consider
inspirational!!
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