Re : Self-seeding perennials
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re : Self-seeding perennials
- From: G* C*
- Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 10:47:23 +0200
Hi, everyone,
of course, you're right,Marge, these weeds are Cardamine hirsuta, awful task
to get rid of it, but I'have heard here, that you can eat them as a salad
with vinaigrette. In France, too, by April, you can see people digging up
dandelions by the road-side (I wonder if they are polluted or not) to make
nice salads and they eat them with cooked eggs.
Chantal GUIRAUD
Ermenonville north of Paris, zone 7
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>De : Blee811@aol.com
>À : perennials@mallorn.com
>Objet : Re: Self-seeding perennials
>Date : Sam 13 mai 2000 14:00
>
>In a message dated 5/13/00 3:04:42 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
mtalt@clark.net
>writes:
>
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> I think it may be climate related. Tho' why Brunnera doesn't seed
> for you, I don't know, as it likes a cool climate much better than a
> hot, sticky one - same for Alchemilla.
>
>100 miles north in Columbus Ohio people do have brunnera reseeding. Maybe
>Cincinnati falls into the hot, sticky category. I know it does by July!
>BTW, the variegated brunnera planted three years ago is finally coming into
>its own and looks spectacular.
>
> A number of the plants on my
> list seed madly into the gravel of the drive and parking area, but
> not into my beds and borders - or into paving cracks.
>===>Like it needs the heat generated by all the stones to germinate? Who
>knows? Sometimes the plants seem perverse.
>
> My Tovara filiformis 'Painter's Palette' acted like it wasn't going
> to make it for about three years and last year, I started noticing
> some seedlings - some very remote from the parents.
>===>I think I'm going into my 4th year with it. Time to jump back I hope.
>Yes, I think it can become rampant from what I've read about it.
>
> Nicotiana sylvestris... So, think you're climate is just too cold for it.
>===>You're probably right about this. I'm still watching for seedlings
>around last year's planting, though, because winter was mild here this
year.
>
> I betcha $$$ I know what your mystery weed is...bitter cress, AKA
> Cardamine hirsuta or C. Pensylvanica.
>===>That's it, Marge. From the photos, though, it is a little hard to
tell.
>The plant's parts are really so fine that it doesn't show up well, does it?
>It is truly obnoxious, but I think I would rather have it than chickweed,
if
>anyone gives me a choice.
>
>Bill Lee
>
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