Re: I'm Ba-ack

Hi, Jeanne...

It's so great to see a post from you...was getting worried. I can't give
you any real help with your query, but I can say that some of my perennials
have taken several years to make babies. A good example is Ladies Mantle
(Alchemilla mollis). I had read how they would spread themselves with
abandon, but I saw no seedlings from mine until they'd been in place for
about five years! The moral of this story is: don't give up hope!


At 05:54 AM 3/30/99 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi Everyone,
>Welcome to spring.  I've been lurking all winter while
>you people have been nattering on about a zillion
>topics, including lately the pros and cons of various
>varieties of poops.  Have you no consideration for my
>delicate sensibilities?  Snakes on the kitchen
>table!!pu-leeze!
>Impatient gardener that I am, I am pretty disgusted at
>this point with my garden.  Last spring I emended my
>garden soil with so many delicious and nutritious
>things that  I felt like I should top it off with
>whipped cream and a cherry and eat it for dessert.  All
>this so that my plants, which were supposed to self
>sow, would feel especially fertile and I would reap the
>bounty of their prolific self seeding.  Need I say that
>this has not occurred.  I find no trace of any little
>seedlings, ready to leap forth.  Nary a Columbine,
>Poppy, foxglove, etc. is to be seen anywhere in my
>garden.  I still have the parent plants and they are
>doing nicely, HOWEVER, where is the progeny of these
>parents?  Krystl, there is no sign of my Lobelias
>yet..should they be showing up at this point?
>I'm afraid to tell you all this, but the healthiest
>looking plants in my garden are the shasta daisies. 
>Surely you can't have forgotten the agony and curses of
>last summer generated by my recalcitrant shasta
>daisies!.  Since I lost my self ordained title as Grand
>Poobah of bulb growing to Bill last summer, I will not
>say anything more about them except that they are
>coming along nicely and when they are all in bloom, I
>should have a show-stopper of a garden.
>After all this barrage of useless innformation, what I
>need to know is this;  am I incorrect in thinking that
>some of the self-sowing perennials should be showing
>seedlings this early.  Do you think they will appear
>later on or should I go out and buy plants to fill the
>spaces that I thought were going to be filled with
>newly developing seedlings.
>Jeanne  zone 5
>
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