RE: plant tag confusion -Reply

I can explain that!  One day while buying bulbs
in a local store, someone was also choosing
bulbs in bags along side of me, asked me a
question about bulbs, and whatever my answer
was, decided she didn't want what she'd been
choosing.  She threw them randomly back into
all the various divisions of bulbs and said
something like, "Oh well, don't know if that's
right."  I was appalled!  For those of us who
carefully plan our gardens this is just criminal! 
So shame on you if you are not careful in
returning bulbs to their proper bins or tags to
their proper plants!


>>> "Kennedy, Cheryl"
<Cheryl.Kennedy@analog.com> 07/30/98
06:09am >>>
Hi Lisa,

I too have a Jackmanii Clematis mislabeled
Henryii by Walmart. I also
have peach gladiolus growing that were suppose
to be a fuschia color
mislabeled by someone else! Ya just never
know!

> ----------
> From: 	Lisa
Roth[SMTP:rothcrew@compsol.net]
> Sent: 	Thursday, July 30, 1998 8:30 AM
> To: 	perennials@mallorn.com
> Subject: 	Re: Sedum confusion
> 
> Hi Marge,
> 
> Thanks for your information.  It is a big help
to me, as I
> prepare to tear up the yard in favor of more
garden areas. 
> I'll plant the Sedum spectabile 'Meteor' in a
spot that gets
> filtered sun, along with my Hosta (brought
here from
> Michigan and doing fine) and my Astilbe,
(also brought from
> Michigan) which would clash with the
Meteor, I think, if
> they had the same bloom time, which they
don't. ;) 
> 
> A friend of mine is giving me some of her
"excess" plants,
> and among those is a really nice Thyme
(darn, should have
> brought the variegated one I had in
Michigan!) and some
> chives.  I also have some parsley seed I could
start this
> year.  (Mental note--find a place for an herb
garden.)  Of
> course, that means I need to pick up some
lavender
> ......hmmmmmm
> 
> This yard is an odd mix of sun and shade. 
The small garden
> bed I just put in by my back porch would
normally get
> morning sun, but there is a huge tree in the
neighbor's yard
> that filters the sun until around 9:30 am. 
From then until
> around 1:00pm, it gets full sun.  After that,
the bed is
> shaded by the house.  I've put in several
plants that I
> brought from Michigan, which were in a
similar location
> there, and have filled in the spaces with
some annuals.  I'm
> just hoping that's enough sun for the
clematis (Jackmanii,
> mislabled Henrii by Walmart) that I just
planted by the
> porch rail.  I also found a beautiful variegated
Phlox, 
> (unlabled), which has a flower that reminds
me of 'Bright
> Eyes'.  This bed is working out to be
primarily pinks and
> purples, with a nice pale yellow Coreopsis
'moonbeam' as an
> accent color.  I had originally planned to put
the Sedum in
> this bed, but with the information I have
received so far, I
> think I'd be better off to put it in the filtered
shade bed.
> 
> I'm having so much fun with creating the
new garden beds,
> that I have sadly neglected the unpacking
still to be done. 
> But, you know, if I didn't get the plants I
brought from
> Michigan in the ground right away, they
would die! So, I
> *had* to start on the garden!  I did lose my
Russian Sage :(
> 
> Lisa
> who will be starting my new job on Monday,
so obviously
> needs to get the garden beds going before
then! (unpacking
> can wait <G>)
> 
>
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