Re: 100 degrees

Yes any of the acid loving gentian cannot have any of my tap water.  I also
use a RO filter.  I discovered this spring that I get almost no seedling
loss when I use RO water even for the pots that are covered with a dome. The
only difference between the bog area and blueberry patch, both of which are
peat moss and do not get any tap water,  is that I put a layer of leaf mould
covered with a pine mulch in the blueberry patch.  The gentian that suffers
more gets a little shade from the blueberries and the healthy one is on the
south edge of the sarracenia.  It is lush green with no wilting.  I went
with the idea of very wet when I saw nice. sino-ornata grown in a soggy peat
tub by Phil Doonan (sp?) at Grand Ridge. They really need a lot of light so
I have found that you can get away with over watering these types of plants
that need the sun provided you do not use any tap or ground water.  The rots
tend to not be able to grow in the peat.  Primula in the farinosa section
are like this.  I am getting seedlings of bluets spreading around not.  My
system has worked.  Under normal conditions it is an impossible plant.  I
have put them in the dry portions of the bog where they won't get any tap
water.  They are sensitive to chlorine.  They are sowing in fairly wet area
and in the dry pathway next to the shed in the gravel.  For the first time I
have a bunch of mistassinica seedlings to try out.  Forget what I just said.
I just looked at the one the blueberry patch and it looks great.  It is
"Graham bluebird".  My Habenaria ciliaris is starting to bloom with two
spikes, magnificent and easy.   What an incredible year, I even have
Caceolaria volunteers (the aphids noticed too).  Do you grow puberulenta?
The ones that people grow and the seed exchanges have doesn't look near as
pretty as the wild ones around here.  Is it confusion with puberula which is
possibly the same as saponaria.

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