bluebells

In a message dated 6/8/01 10:53:59 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
mygarden@easystreet.com writes:

<< end up where I don't want them.  Now, Blue Bells!!!  That another story!!!
 Anybody want a ton or 2 of the bulbs?  At least with too many Zuchinni, you
 can find a few takers because it is edible. :) >>

Now Marilyn, the gardener is never happy.  Too much ...........or too little. 
 Those bulbous bluebells you describes are hyacinthoides I suppose.  Marge 
gave me some to add to the ones I had.  To increase your collection here you 
must buy and add new ones.  The clumps remain clumps and do not seed or 
spread here.  Though I doubt that I would want a ton, it is all in the 
viewpoint.  In the Northeast a gardener views drifts of bluebells, English 
style, which does not happen here.  You must continue to add to your drift.

The only bulbs that seed and spread, if not eaten by rodents, are muscari, 
scilla, snowdrops (very, very slowly) and a few botanic tulips.  At a rock 
garden meeting, one of our best bulb guys said that the trick is to find a 
species that can reproduce faster than the mice can eat them. He recommended 
a species crocus.  I suspect the bluebells are also eaten so I plant them, 
not in drifts, but in locations all a distance from each other hoping some 
will always survive.  Don't you have enough mice and voles in the 
Northwest?<VBG>

A digression, Marilyn: those lysimachia purpurea are blooming here now and 
throwing side shoots with more spikes.  If it does not end up running all 
over the Northeast, it will be a lovely new perennial on the market.

Claire Peplowski
NYS z4

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