Re: creamy gentian

Hello Kris & Paul,
    Always wonder why more gardeners are not interested in and grow the native Gentians, for that matter the Asian fall flowering as well, in their gardens. The ones I have tried thus far over the years are not difficult to grow and certainly quite lovely. The natives always seem to be the most difficult to locate in seed or plants. I have the more common G. andrewsii and prefer G. saponaria in the garden, in spite of the fact that it is a flopper at flowering. Growing G. affinis now, but one more year to flowering. The rest of my Gentian are Asian.
    Anyone know of a nursery selling G. flavida plants or a source for fresh seeds?
    Gene Bush     Southern Indiana    Zone 6a     Munchkin Nursery
          around the woods - around the world
g*@otherside.com     http://www.munchkinnursery.com
If you mean G. flavida. Yes-they like it sunny to part shade.  a moisture
retentive soil that is well draining most of the year but plants will take
wet springs good and do well in wet soils after a rain storm.

An attractive gentian with more upright stems than the bottle Gentians.
Plants are long lived and produce a long deep "tap" root. so once established
do not move.

Only problems I have had with the are:
They do not like dry conditions.
Scales
Wood Chucks like to eat them.

Paul
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