Re: Companion Plants For Hops Aureus
Skip & Jeanne Moore wrote:
>
> Me, too, Wanda.
>
> Ok, I'll bite: What lab is selling the plugs? How much are they? I've heard
> of tissue propagation, but haven't actually seen it done except in a
> propagation class about 15 years ago. How much trouble is this? Have you
> done it, Marilyn? Is Kent Bell only happy in Britain/Pacific Northwest? I
> have great luck with C. persicifolia, but my sole chimney bellflower gave up
> the ghost after only 1 blooming season. Fill us in, please.
>
> --Regina Moore
> Zone 7, MD
> At 06:51 PM 6/8/98 -0700, you wrote:
> >At 10:14 PM 6/6/98 EDT, Wanda09548@aol.com wrote:
> >>OK I'll ask, what is C. Kent Belle??? I'd ;pve the cobalt blue flowers, but
> >>will they grow in my Zone 5 St Louis weather?? Where can I get them?
> >>It seems like the flower for my garden!!!
> >>Wanda in St Louis
> >
> >Campanula ' Kent Belle' is a British hybrid that is being grown from tissue
> >culture by a lab in Washington state. I don't know what the hardiness rating
> >of it is. You can by it from the lab as tiny plugs (72 to the tray) or try
> >to find a nursery that has done the above and is selling it retail in 4"
> >pots. It is worth looking for, it's gorgeous! I had an open garden tour
> >this last weekend with 50-75 people wandering through and the 2 plants that
> >caused the most comments were C. Kent Belle and Knautia macedonia. Touring
> >gardeners have such good taste! Marilyn
> >Marilyn Dube'
> >NATURAL DESIGN PLANTS
> >Hardy Perennials, Choice Tropicals
> >Portland, Oregon
> >
> >
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Seeing as I've received my liners within the last 3 months, I'll divulge
some info on this subject.
TC labs produce very small plantlets that cannot be grown in the garden
at the stage that they arrive. The plants are also very expensive. You
must purchase at least 72 plants of a particular cultivar and I've
purchased several flats that ran well over $200.
It takes at least one year to fill the plant out to fill a gallon sized
container. We sell most of our TC plants for $6.99, but most nurseries
sell them for up $12.99. (My 4 acres of property was a fluke deal that
consists of $311 a month payments. I pass my low overhead on to
customers....for now.)
TC labs were not set up to service individual gardeners, and will not
sell to them, ensuring that the small independant grower of quality
plants will support them in the long stretch. Individual gardeners
could never keep them afloat, so they don't sell to them. The overhead
costs in TC is enormous. They have many thousand dollar microscopes,
laminar flow hoods for moving material in sterile fields. Countless
glass vials and tubes and incubaters and grow lights and agar mediums
and chemical compounds and scales and then.....they have a greenhouse,
too. The plants can run easily over $3 each for a plant with a root
system that can fit inside a thimble.
Then, bear in mind that you have to grow it on. I have a particular
lysimachia that after all the losses, what I have left would cost $30 a
pot for a #1 container. I hope to be able to propagate it. One day,
when I have the time, I might even try it.
My statement to all who ask where I get my plants.....which I hear,
everyday, that people have never seen some of the things I have, and
also, that they are the healthiest plants they've ever seen.....I say
"I've spent thousands of hours and several years finding my sources, and
I'll tell you most anything, but where I get them."
I hope Ms. Dube' will respond the same.
--
The Greenhouse Nursery
81 S. Bagley Creek Road & Hwy 101
Port Angeles, WA 98362
(360) 417-2664
Zone 8
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