Re: 100 degrees

Hello Frank,
    Kind of sounds like you may be bumping into pH as much as moisture.
True, most gentiana like to be on the moist side if they can get it. Soil pH
makes a difference on many of the species.... if species needs lime and
placed in acid it will just kind of set there and languish until one day it
does not come back. Opposite, of course, is also true. Some species of
gentian are not all that fussy about pH... but some are. Have to take them
one species or hybrid at a time, match to local soil for best performance.
    Gene E. Bush
Munchkin Nursery & Gardens, llc
www.munchkinnursery.com
genebush@munchkinnursery.com
Zone 6/5  Southern Indiana

----- Original Message -----
> What kinds of gentians?  I have several that are barely hanging on in my
> blueberry patch next to the bog.  It stays pretty moist there (so does my
> cactus bed this year after over 10" so far this month).  I took a piece of
> maybe Edith Sarah and put it the drier part of my bog next to a sarracenia
> and it is doing 10 times better than the one in the blueberry bed.  Also
the
> sino-ornata that I grew from seed in situ that are shade with a few pine
> needles are looking good.  The paradoxa and scabras are doing good also.
> What native gentian are you growing?  For most of the gentians it is hard
to
> give them enough water.  I wish I knew what was eating my tomatoes.  The
> Japanese beetles are staying next door.  So many plants that nave just
been
> struggling along for several years have taken a foothold now.  The sweet
> peas that weren't damaged by the aphids are loving the summer.  I have to
go
> make my blueberry muffins now.  This is my first season and I am amazed at
> how loaded they are.
> Frank Cooper
> central Illinois rain forest
> zone 5b

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