RE: green and white bed help
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- Subject: RE: green and white bed help
- From: M* D*
- Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 10:53:03 -0800
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Claire, Linda and Joanie,
A word of caution regarding the Hyacinthoides hispanica syn: Wood
Hyacinth, Spanish Bluebells, Scilla, et al. Here in my garden these have
been prolific spreaders - bordering on being thugs. Perhaps it is our mild
maritime climate that invigorates them, but heavy clay soil doesn't seem to
slow them down. They propagate themselves by bulb division and also self
seed VERY prolifically. If one has a meadow where they can ran rampant and
look absolutely gorgeous - that is perfect. In confined spaces such as my
rose border (8'W x 40'L), in spite of digging out as many bulbs as I can
find every spring after they finish blooming, I still have WAY too many. I
find new colonies forming in my raised veggie beds, the raspberry patch, the
compost bins, in the gravel pathways of the nursery, etc. I always offer
nursery visitors free bulbs ("you dig") with a word of warning. I would put
it right up there with Sweet Woodruff - beautiful but fleet of foot. :)
Marilyn Dube'
Natural Designs Nursery
Portland, Oregon
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-perennials@mallorn.com [owner-perennials@mallorn.com] On
Behalf Of ECPep@aol.com
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 9:37 PM
To: perennials@mallorn.com
Subject: Re: green and white bed help
In a message dated 1/5/01 12:12:23 AM Eastern Standard Time,
lwallpe@juno.com
writes:
<< Hyacinthoides Hispanica White Triumph, has been a good increaser here,
late spring >>
This is a great bulb (in pink and in blue as well). They grown in woody
areas, shady areas, under shrubs. HH increases here also. HH blooms late
in
the spring, end of June, I think. When you think bulbs are all done, this
one comes along as a long lasting surprise. You may find it listed as wood
hyacinth, scilla or endymion. The first bulbs that I purchased had yet
another name (Spanish bluebells, maybe). Each bulb gradually increases
into a large clump that has so far has not been eaten by the voles.
If you have been mesmerized by the woodland displays of English bluebells,
this is the one that will work here.
Claire Peplowski
NYS z4
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