Wood hya., Span. bluebells. Was green and white bed help
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- Subject: Wood hya., Span. bluebells. Was green and white bed help
- From: R* S* M*
- Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 23:55:35 -0500
Isn't it funny, Marilyn, how different things are weeds in different places?
I live in fairly sandy soil zone 7a in Eastern Shore Md., and Sweet Woodruff
grew into about a 1-foot circle in the shade under my blue Leyland Cypress
and then mysteriously turned brown-beige and croaked! Haven't been able to
get it going again there. Yet I have as weeds coming up everywhere what some
others love: two kinds of bugleweed and Star of Bethlehem (both do what you
describe for the bluebells). Hmmmm -- I wonder which path those bluebells
would take here?
--Jean Moore
Wood hAt 10:53 AM 1/5/01 -0800, you wrote:
>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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