Re: Blanchettes Gardens

In a message dated 7/23/02 8:40:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
OXFORDWALT@aol.com writes:

<< Well, back frm the visit.  Had to sell the dog as there was no room for 
 plants in the van.........the wife was the next one to go( or stay) but I 
ran 
 out of money. >>>>

We did a trip, similar, returning with some things actually tied on top of 
the car.  Ed said we looked like a bunch of Oakies and that ended the 
overbuying.  He must have reached his limit.  Walter, you have a way to 
go!!!!!

<< I won't bore you withthe long list but two unusual plants for 
 me were:>>>>>

Walter, Leo is a talented propagator. He can get hold of something rare in 
the trade and there it will be at Leo's, lots and lots of it.  One of the 
reasons you don't find some of his (and other's as well) in Phillip/Rix and 
other fine books is that they write on plants available to the trade feeling 
that descriptions of plants you cannot actually buy are not fair reading.  
The new plants on the market arrive much quicker than the books are updated 
unfortunately.

I have never gone to Carlisle and come home without a bunch of challenges.  
Sounds like you had a wonderful time.

<<<<<Anyway the second plant that intrigues me is "Sinacalia tangutica". 
Obvously 
 a spreader ....some called it Ligularia tangutica.  In my newly acquired 
 Phillipos and Rix, Perennials  it doesn't say much, though  it was 
apparently 
 also callled Senecio tanguticas.  Does anyone.......maybe 500 of ya'll out 
 there......have any experience with Sinaclia tangutica?>>>>>

Senecio tanguticas is listed in Hortus 3 which allegedly has all plants 
growing in the US when it was published which was a long time ago.  Says from 
China. 3 feet high and panicles of yellow flowers.  I guess you will have to 
keep notes and inform us.
 
<<<Walter in Bucks County, Pa; drought capital of the east >>>

By now you may have cured your drought, we got rained on here for the third 
day in a row and this one was the worst.  Donder and Blitzen and blew the 
modem out of the computer again.  I can do the exchange myself now, it 
happens so often.  You buy a lifetime guarantee modem here.  I keep a spare 
but was in Staples for another reason and modems were leaving the store one 
by one in the line.  Lots of unhappy faces.

Claire Peplowski
NYS zone 4

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