Re: Sickly Blue Cohosh- need help
- Subject: Re: Sickly Blue Cohosh- need help
- From: G* B*
- Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 07:50:26 -0400
Hello Lillian,
My best guess on your cohosh is simply dormancy is beginning to happen.
If the plants did not bloom and set those lovely blue berries, then now is
about the time for it to go dormant. Assume it is hot and dry where you
garden like it is here? If you are watering the garden it can cause the
plant to try to send up a side shoot. I would now ease up on the watering
and let it sleep until next spring.
Gene E. Bush
Munchkin Nursery & Gardens, llc
www.munchkinnursery.com
genebush@munchkinnursery.com
Zone 6/5 Southern Indiana
----- Original Message -----
> I planted 2 Blue Cohash (Caulophyllum thalictroides) this spring, one at
the
> front of the house in fairly deep shade, and the other at the side where
it
> gets afternoon sun, and quite a bit of light the rest of the day. Have
never
> grown this before, and both are looking rather sick. One has gone brown
(but
> not crisp) and the other is getting very spotty. Also looks like a sprout
is
> coming up at the base. Any idea whats happening? Everything around it
seems
> reasonably happy, or at least as happy as anything can be in this heat.
> Label says best in shade or part shade, and their soil is "average". I
think
> (but can't remember for sure) that I might have given them a sprinkle of
> slow release fertilizer when they were planted.
> Thanks for any help
>
> Lillian T, Zone 5
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