Re: Russian sage
- Subject: Re: Russian sage
- From: "Merri Morgan" m*@wcgnet.net
- Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 08:02:46 -0500
I've been enjoying all this talk of the plants good gardeners have killed.
When I began gardening, I thought it was always my fault if a plant died,
that I wasn't a good enough gardener yet. (I also thought it was due to my
inexperience that I was constantly moving plants from one spot to another.)
It took me several years to realize that if you are going to become a
serious gardener, you are going to kill a lot of plants. Not too long ago,
a nursery owner introduced me to someone by saying "Merri has killed more
plants than most people have grown." He meant it as a compliment, and I
knew exactly what he meant. Though the person he was introducing me to
appeared somewhat shocked. LOL
Merri Morgan
Zone 5b, WV
----- Original Message -----
From: "Marge Talt" <mtalt@hort.net>
To: <perennials@hort.net>
Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 6:16 PM
Subject: Re: Russian sage
>
> Well, Cheryl, I figure some plants simply don't like my face. I have
> yet to grow Bergenia successfully - have killed many of these
> fool-proof, any-idiot-can-grow-them plants. Am trying one more, said
> to be more tolerant of our hot summer nights. If it does not thrive,
> I think I will throw in the towel on that genus. But, usually, I'll
> just try something again in another spot on the theory that, while it
> should have done well where I put it, I have obviously overlooked
> something somewhere and another spot might be better....hope does
> live eternal when it comes to some plants:-)
>
> There are some plants that simply will not tolerate my climate, soil
> or karma, so I have given up killing them and just lust for them in
> my heart...
>
> Like Paul, many of my failures just get swamped by their neighbors
> when they loosen their hold on their bit of soil and I wander around
> wondering where the 'h' I put the bleedin' thing, then, one day, I
> unearth a tag from the long departed child and go "Oh, that's where I
> put it":-) I have quite a collection of those.
>
> Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
> mtalt@hort.net
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> ----------
> > From: Cheryl Isaak <cherylisaak@adelphia.net>
> >
> > Most plants I allow the normal three year cycle (sleep, creep,
> leap)
> > but these seem to be on the 4 year plan. I have a baptistia on the
>
> > same plan, but since the ground hog made a burrow in that area of
> the
> > bed, I have made allowances and added lots of soil to fill it back
> in.
> >
> > What do the rest of you do when some thing refuses to live that
> > should thrive in your area? I refer to those plants that are with
> in
> > zone and properly sited for sun/shade/moisture etc. I have given
> up
> > on perennial poppies, delphiniums, geums and a few others. All
> > should have been happy, but just aren't for me.
>
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