Re: yellow flowered Jacob's Ladder

Thompson & Morgan carries seeds for Polemonium pauciflorum 'Silver Leaf
Form,' which has soft, primrose yellow trumpet flowers with deep pink
markings on the backs. I've seen it in a yard here in Winnipeg (zone 3) -
the fellow started it indoors from T&M seed - and I thought it was quite
attractive in an understated sort of way. It also seems a useful sort of
plant since it likes semi-shade and the bloom colours will harmonize with
just about anything. It's rated easy to start from seed, so I'm thinking of
trying it.
Linda


At 12:13 PM 1/26/98 -0800, you wrote:
>I have grown the yellow flowered jacob's ladder (without the silver
foliage) and to my eye, it was very disappointing.  Yellow being one of my
favorite colors, it was not a pretty shade of yellow, rather dull, lifeless.  
>
>>>> "craig & lara hawkes" <networks@clear.net.nz> 01/25/98 01:33am >>>
>Susan,
>I see you grow jacobs Ladder, what colour or name do you grow and how
>do you find it.  I am looking for a yellow flowering variety with silver
>foliage??
>Seed of course as cannot buy in plant material.  At present I have White,
>Careulum (Blue) and a low growing pink with yellow centre (the foliage is a
>deeper green with out spreading growth habit instead of upright)
>Am very interested to hear other peoples comments on the exciting plant.
>For example had the Careulum for sale at a market stall and it accounted
>for
>46% of total sales - ran out the door, so many people had never seen it
>before.
>Lara
>Ngaruawahia
>NZ
>
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>> From: Susan Campanini <campanin@ntx1.cso.uiuc.edu>
>> To: 'shadegardens list' <shadegardens@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU>
>> Cc: 'perennials' <perennials@mallorn.com>
>> Subject: thanks and bio
>> Date: Saturday, 24 January 1998 06:47
>> 
>> 	Thanks very much to all who responded to my inquiry about using
>> Aconitum episcopale in partial shade.  This question highlights an
>> interesting point:  that diverse factors such as heat, humidity, wind,
>> source and angle of light, and so on can be crucial in determining
>> whether or not you have an appropriate microclimate within your garden
>> for a plant to do well in a different "shade" situation (or zone, for
>> that matter) than recommended in a catalogue.
>> 	Let me introduce myself a little bit.  My name is Susan
>> Campanini and I have been gardening in east central Illinois for over 30
>> years.  Three summers ago, we moved to a new house after gardening for
>> over 14 years on the other side of town. Fortunately, we were able to
>> take divisions of many of the plants we had grown in our prior garden,
>> and many of them have done very well.  We've also added a great many
>> plants since then.
>> 	This yard has large older trees at each of the four corners of
>> the double lot--a pin oak, a hard maple, and two locusts--and a large
>> ash outside the fence on the west side of the property.  The whole north
>> yard is quite shady.  The east side is sunny and is thus the home of
>> eight large rectangular raised beds and six smaller square raised beds
>> (four landscape timbers high), where we grow a large range of rock
>> garden and alpine plants and some small sun-loving perennials.
>> 	Along both sides of the east fence, the beds are filled with
>> border perennials, roses, clematis, shrubs, and spring-blooming bulbs of
>> all types.  Under the maple, the pin oak, and the ash, we have larged
>> raised shade beds with natural log edging, filled with ferns,
>> rhododendrons, azaleas, pieris, epimedium, pulmonaria, tons of hostas,
>> heuchera, tricyrtis, trollium, Japanese anemone, amsonia, chelone,
>> brunnera, lamium, prunella, trillium, wood poppy, hellebores, solomon's
>> seal, jacob's ladder, wild geranium, some japanese woodlanders, zillions
>> of shade-tolerant spring-blooming bulbs, and . . . . lots of other
>> plants I can't think of right now since I'm at the office--with snow on
>> the ground outside the window!
>> 	For many years, we grew 1500 plants or more from seed every
>> winter under lights in our basement, labeled everything with botanical
>> names, and recorded bloom times and other information faithfully in a
>> journal.  The move to the new place involved a lot of work with
>> transplanting, a house without a basement, and, overall, a carefully
>> thought out decision to focus on maintaining and enjoying the garden
>> without constant pressure for expansion and time spent on record keeping
>> and labeling, so we're gardening a little more informally now as a
>> result (good thing too, for two middle-aged gardeners with full-time
>> jobs and twelve other passionate hobbies!).
>> 	Let me add a few personal notes.  My husband loves gardening as
>> much as I do and it's a good team because he's great at all the heavy
>> work and construction involved in gardening and I'm an info-hound who
>> loves to find out about new plants and their cultural requirements and
>> plan the design and color mixes. We also love animals (we have six cats,
>> two dwarf rabbits, and eight finches) and so have planted many shrubs
>> and perennials that attract birds and butterflies. 
>> 	The Midwest is a particularly interesting and challenging place
>> to garden because of the wide range of climates and the
>> unpredictability.  I love hearing about other people's gardening
>> interests and challenges in other regions.  It's the other people
>> connecting to one another that makes the Internet such a wonderful tool
>> for any sort of information.
>> 
>> Happy Gardening!
>> Susan  
>>  
>> Susan Campanini
>> in east central Illinois
>> zone 5b, min temp -15F×
>> e-mail:  campanin@uiuc.edu
>> 
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