RE: More plants!
perennials@hort.net
  • Subject: RE: More plants!
  • From: &* M* <1*@rewrite.hort.net>
  • Date: Tue, 14 May 2019 18:36:56 -0400
Coincidences?
He used to teach horticulture and now he hates it. At one time he knew how to 
make things grow which means he also knows what will kill them.  Instead of 
Arsenic & Old Lace next door, maybe they have a vinegar still. 

I would put some Houttuynia cordata in to drive him nuts.  He'd spend his 
waning years trying to kill it.  It deserves to be killed so maybe he'd meet 
his match.

Kitty

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-perennials@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf 
Of Christopher P. Lindsey
Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2019 8:51 AM
To: perennials@hort.net
Subject: Re: More plants!

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kitty Morrissy" <1018@rewrite.hort.net>
> To: perennials@hort.net
> Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2019 6:09:23 AM
> Subject: RE: More plants!
> 
> Re  driveway where everything has coincidentally died.
> Salt run off?

It's a raised bed and he says he doesn't believe in salt. It's very 
mysterious.

He doesn't like me having plants there and hacked back the Daphne and 
Hypericum that were sticking past the property line by about six inches.  
They're elderly (he's 92) and he used to teach horticulture at the University 
of Illinois.  In fact, he was my old advisor's advisor.

The Daphne and Hypericum all had really bad split branches; the ends that he 
hacked off removed support, so the branches bowed lower and split at the 
base.  I also believe they stomped on them a lot as they got in and out of 
their car.  (The plants were totally dead this spring, so I yanked them).

But it doesn't explain the Hosta that suddenly receded, the hellebores that 
wilted suddenly this spring and are now gone, the other perennials that died, 
the Hydrangea that died, or the Weigela that has been there for 80 years 
(according to the landscape plan of the house) that suddenly lost 2/3 of its 
branches.  He asked me to tear out the Weigela and I refused, pointing out 
that it was on that master landscape plan and was planted before his house 
was even built.  Sad that it's suddenly in decline too.  What's even stranger 
is that no weeds grow in those places either.  Or that I created that bed 
twelve years ago and it grew like crazy until he moved in.  Coincidences 
abound.

Chris

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