Re: More on pink bloodroot and double-digging
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- Subject: Re: More on pink bloodroot and double-digging
- From: M* T*
- Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 02:06:22 -0500
If you get a chance to go to Collectors, do by all means...have heard
only good things about that nursery from those who are near enough
to visit.
Good to hear that perseverance pays off with the double
bloodroot...am going to get that one again if my lust and memory can
coincide at the proper moment. Have the singles seeding about all
over so am not quite certain why the double took against my garden,
but it was not sufficiently happy to return.
Clay's old garden was only a few miles from me and he invited me to
his daff open house last spring - talk about incredible beds of show
daffs! Not to mention a peony border that went for hundreds of feet
and huge Azaleas...oh, so many grand plants. When he announced he
was moving in the fall, I nearly fainted - he'd lived there for
years; garden was very mature. Do not think I could have left that
garden cheerfully. Am sure you've kept abreast of the whole process
since you email each other. What a challenge, from beginning to end.
Made me look around my garden and wonder what on earth I would do
should I be faced with a move that did not feature me in a pine box
as the chief moveable object. Mind could not dwell on it for long.
My impression, re: daffs is that the extra effort is needed for show
quality, but not for the general garden type daffs. I know mine just
keep coming back and bloom away with complete neglect, but none of
them are anything out of the ordinary.
Agree, however, that all plants benefit from deep digging - well, at
least in clay soil, am not sure about sandy soils - as it permits
their roots to travel farther - and they will. You should see a
difference in your show daffs...Clay swears by double digging for
his.
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@clark.net
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> From: Blee811@aol.com
> Date: Sunday, March 26, 2000 11:40 PM
>
> Thanks for the info on Jim's pink bloodroot, Marge. Interesting to
hear that
> his and mine both come from Collector's Nursery (which I may get a
chance to
> visit this weekend during the World Daffodil Convention) and have
the same
> pink characteristics.
>
> As for the double bloodroot, oh my. I lost my first two but have
kept the
> third purchase going for several years and it's increasing. This
is one of
> nature's most stunning flowers and worth trying over and over
again. I have
> it beside the front porch, on the east side. It only gets a few
hours of
> morning sun and we've mulched that area annually for 10 years so
the soil is
> now nice and loose and organic. I expect it to open tomorrow.
>
> I also envy your having seen Clay Higgins' garden. He's a daffodil
buddy of
> mine, along with his wife Fran, but I only see them at shows and we
email;
> someday I'll get back to Maryland and visit that garden. All the
advice on
> deep soil preparation (3 feet is not too much) is probably going to
test out.
> I'm doing the same experiment this year as Nancy Robinson and
several
> others. We'll see what the daffodils look like next year. I can't
imagine
> very many plants that would not benefit from deep digging. But if
you are
> not growing daffodils for exhibiting at shows, it may not be worth
the effort
> unless you just love to dig. I'm expecting better size, increase,
health,
> and color for my efforts. Ask me in another year.
> Bill Lee
> Cincinnati
>
>
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