Re: Echinacea purpurea
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- Subject: Re: Echinacea purpurea
- From: L*@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 03:46:52 EDT
Sue--
By now I am sure you have learned more than everything you ever wanted to know
about Echinacea. But there is one thing I think has not been said. That is
that the cultivated varieties of Echinacea do not come true-to-type from seed.
Was yours a seedling? If so, perhaps you have a runt.
I myself had a dud that never developed well, growing right there in the same
bed with four or five others that were huge and gorgeous. Sometimes it is
just bad genes.
--Janis
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Re: NorthHill Symposium/Native PlantsStacey, it sounds like the whole symposium and tour was very interesting, I'm not familiar with Tres Fromme but agree that he's right about gardening being an unnatural act. A really natural garden would have an awful lot of undesirable plants (i.e. weeds) although the gardener wouldn't have to do anything to do it, either. If you do anything, you're interfering with nature, after all. That said, I think there are good reasons for using native plants, particularly in these times of drought and generally strange weather. "Natives" endure.But what are native plants? Tony Avent of Plants Delight has been quoted as saying that all plants were native before the continents split. True enough. Yet, as has been discussed on this list, some plants are terribly invasive when imported to new areas. Moderation in all things.
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