Re: bluebells/ Mertensia
- Subject: Re: bluebells/ Mertensia
- From: M* T*
- Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 05:02:33 -0400
Thanks, Gene..I have been meaning to post for a couple of months to
find out if anyone had ever seen a pure pink form, which I found in
my largest stand this year...was quite surprised about that - it had
no trace of blue at all. Tried to take a photo, but have trouble
maintaining blues in pix anyway, so there wasn't the contrast between
the blue flowers fading to pink and the one plant with pure pink
flowers..now I know it can happen:-) Also had no idea it came in
white!!
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@clark.net
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> From: GeneBush <genebush@otherside.com>
>
> Hello Bill,
> Since Mertensia virginica is almost a weed around here,
frequent early spring
> walks in the country is the best means of locating a white blooming
or pure pink
> blooming form. I know where a large patch of metensia grows locally
along a small
> creek right up to the edge of the gravel road. This patch runs for
perhaps 300
> feet and about 50 to 60 feet wide between the creek and road side.
There are
> numerous forms of both white and pink in the stands. Keep intending
to go up there
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