Re: perennials - walnut tree now hydrangea vine
- Subject: Re: perennials - walnut tree now hydrangea vine
- From: Kris Plunkett k*@yahoo.com
- Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 07:56:38 -0700 (PDT)
--- Marge Talt <mtalt@hort.net> wrote:
> Took my climbing hydrangea a good 10 years and a
> heart-to-heart
> discussion about compost heaps to bloom (literally
> bloomed for the
> first time the year after I told it that next year
> was it...bloom or
> compost); now it covers a 16+/- foot tall black
> locust stump with
> arms stretched out some 3' or more; blooms yearly -
> but these are NOT
> fast growers nor early bloomers....worth waiting for
> IMO.
I read my mail backwards so had not come across Marges
take on the hydrangea.
I plan to move at the end of summer so might try to
root a bit of it with rooting hormone and take that
with me to the new house. I hate to wait ten yrs like
Marge but as everyone knows gardeners are patient
folks.LOL
Kris P IL
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