Re: Double Bloodroot
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- Subject: Re: Double Bloodroot
- From: M* T*
- Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 04:19:19 -0400
Well, Dean, dry is not a problem, if plants like it, around here -
tree roots suck all moisture out of the soil at the drop of a hat.
I couldn't figure out why mine departed as I have a lot of the single
form of the species madly seeding all over the place - thought it'd
be very happy...sigh.
Where is Jim Langhammer? I mean what part of the world does he
garden in - don't need his street address:-) His place sounds rather
heavenly with the double form as a weed...
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@clark.net
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> From: Dean Sliger <deanslgr@kode.net>
> To: perennials@mallorn.com
> Subject: Re: Double Bloodroot
> Date: Monday, June 05, 2000 8:31 PM
>
> Marge --
>
> Bloodroot likes conditions a bit drier than most "woodland" plants
> (trillium, etc.). Where these other plants will respond favorably
to
> summer watering, bloodroot does not appreciate additional moisture
at
> all. Once established, it's probably one of the best plants for
dry
> shade.
>
> Whoever said double-flowered bloodroot doesn't spread with the same
> vigour as the single-flowered has never been to Jim Langhammer's
house --
> it's infiltrated virtually every bit of shade he has. This, of
course,
> is after twenty-something years at his current house but he's also
> given/sold/traded away quite a bit of it so what's there is what's
left,
> not the total accumulation. Supporting the dry idea is that JKL
very
> seldom, if ever, provides supplemental water to any of his beds.
If he
> waters at all he goes about with a watering can and waters certain
> special plants individually. The bloodroot are totally on their
own, at
> the "mercy" of the natural rainfall (or lack thereof). Oh, and no
mulch
> at his house either.
>
> So perhaps you weren't "abusing" your bloodroot enough! ;-)
>
> Dean Sliger
> Warren, Michigan, USA
> Zone 6B
>
>
>
>
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