Re: bluebells/ Mertensia
- Subject: Re: bluebells/ Mertensia
- From: M* T*
- Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 02:13:01 -0400
If it's Mertensia virginica, it isn't all that picky. Likes good
drainage, but moist soil tho' it puts up with summer drought as it is
dormant then. Mine seeds into deep shade and also sunny bits at the
edge of the gravel drive. Would be happiest in good organically
amended soil, but will grow in gravel. I even have some that returns
each year in the midst of a patch of Pachysandra, fern and
Azalea...can't figure out how it manages to keep going there, but it
does.
Shows early and blooms in early to mid April (in my garden) and then
goes quietly dormant, so don't be upset when it disappears...it will
return.
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@clark.net
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> From: Janet Galpin and Oliver Patterson <decoy.farm@zetnet.co.uk>
>
> I have some young Mertensia plants grown from seed kindly sent by
Tom
> Stuart through the ephemeral seed-list. As Mertensia isn't often
seen
> in UK I'm unsure about conditions. I gather it's a woodlander and
> likes shade, but I'd like to know how difficult it is, how fussy as
> to type of soil and whether the soil has to be definitely damp.
> Thanks for any suggestions.
> Janet Galpin, near Spalding, Lincolnshire, UK, Min temp: -8
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