Re: Surprise lilies and Maginot Line of bamboo
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- Subject: Re: Surprise lilies and Maginot Line of bamboo
- From: M* T*
- Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 04:54:47 -0500
Thanks Mary...would you believe I have mine in *front* of my peonies!
Now, why didn't I have brains enough to think about putting them in
the middle of that lot? Sounds a perfect answer.
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@clark.net
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> From: Mary R Wills <mrwill1@juno.com>
> Date: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 12:16 AM
>
> Hi Marge,
> Mine do okay in a bed with widely spaced, mature peonies-- the
lycoris
> are in the center space between the peony plants, (the lycoris
leaves are
> never lying on the peony crowns, the peonies are 3 feet apart) and
the
> peonies spread out when they come up and hide the bare space. The
pink
> lilies peeking up in August among the peonies are kind of cute...
and the
> naked ladies aren't naked. However, they multiply much faster when
they
> are in open ground and have their own space.
>
> Mary
> zone 6 MO
>
>
> > Wish I could find something, however, to cover the ground in the
> > interim where my patches of them grow. I keep trying assorted
> > annuals once the foliage has died down, but nothing seems to work
> > well and they do leave large bare patches of ground for some
time.
> > Foliage is so thick that nothing perennial survives...at least
> > nothing I've tried.
> >
> > What do all of you who grow these lovely bulbs use to hide the
bare
> > spots from late spring to late summer?
> >
> > Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
> > mtalt@clark.net
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> > > From: Pat <pattm@execpc.com>
> > > Date: Tuesday, March 28, 2000 4:59 PM
> > >
> > > > Have a
> > > >*lot* of bamboo, so mean to make a bamboo Maginot line here -
not
> > > >really decorative, either, but am beyond 'decorative':-)
> > > Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
> > >
> > > Marge . . .. ummm . . .err . . you do realize that the *real*
> > Maginot
> > > line was totally ineffective? The Germans went around it . . .
> > .
> > >
> > > To keep this *legal* in the list sense, last year I posted that
my
> > > surprise lily's foliage came up in spring but I never got
flowers.
> >
> > > Well, the foliage is back this year, so they aren't dead. Is
> > there
> > > anything I can do NOW to better my chances of getting blooms
this
> > > summer?
> > >
> > > --
> > > Pat
> > > pattm@execpc.com
> > > Zone 5 SE Wisconsin
> > > (still hoping for someone to tell me when they prune their
> > Buddleias
> > > back in my zone)
> > >
> > >
> >
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