Re: Cimicifuga and Eupatorium maculatum 'gateway'
Marge Talt wrote:
> If they've just emerged as shoots, now is a good time - better than
> when they get well into growth.
>
> It's hot as Hades here, dunno about where you are, but if you're
> going to do dividing, try to pick a cool day, overcast if not light
> drizzle...in my area, it's about too late, but may be still OK where
> you are.
>
> Are you sure your choc. eupatoriums didn't make it? Mine is out, but
> I'm way south of you, too.
>
> Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
> mtalt@clark.net
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> > From: Nancy S. Shlaes <nsshlaes@ameritech.net>
> > Date: Sunday, May 07, 2000 9:38 AM
> >
> > After burdening this List ad nauseum (and particularly Gene Bush
> who
> > reassured me all through it) with my anxieities about the
> non-appearance
> > of these two plants in my new front garden, I feel mildly foolish
> (but
> > very pleased) to have a question on the opposite problem.
> >
> > Both the Cimicifuga and the Joe Pye Weed have returned thick and
> bushy,
> > with a large ring of healthy shoots where once there was only one.
> They
> > are much too close together. What is the best time to divide them?
> I
> > know nothing about their structure but can learn. My two chocolate
> > eupatorium did not make it through the winter (I think) so I want
> to
> > fill in those spots with parts of the others.
> >
> > Can I do it now?
> >
> > Nancy Shlaes deGrazia ( Long Grove IL, nw suburbs of Chicago)
> >
> >
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Marge - I will continue to hope for my choc eupatorium--thanks to your
encouraging note. The eupatorium gateway are about 8 inches high and the
cicmicifuga is about 14 inches. The Eup was about 4 inches when I
composed the message (3 days ago) .
Too late for moving?
Nancy S. deGrazia
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