Re: the quiet gardeners

In a message dated 11/19/00 9:39:58 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
genebush@otherside.com writes:

<< Hello Chantal,
     We have had early warm springs for the past 3 years and the plants 
adapted....
 normally I have a bit left in bloom up through the middle of December, but 
not
 this year. Even my Aconitum I count on for color is in seed pods now. Same 
with
 Cyclamen, Gentian saponaria. Sedums are all brown and tan seed heads at this
 point. >>

Hello Chantal and Gene,

For some reason all the horticultural lists have been quiet this fall.

I have one contribution on late blooming plants.  Earlier this year, I was 
looking for Viola corsica seeds.   I found both plants and seeds from several 
sources.  All bloomed all summer.  Our summer was cool and rainy, no drought 
this year and that may have been a factor.  Hopefully, they will perform as 
well in years to come.  Viola corsica is still in full bloom in the garden 
after numerous killing frosts in zone 4.
I have one in the house in the cool plant room to watch through the winter.  
This plant is pictured in the National Rock Garden Society journal this fall 
with good reports on it's growth in the western part of the US.  It is a 
hardy perennial (I hope).  In Lauren's Springer's book on low rainfall 
gardening, she describes V. corsica a blooming every month of the year in 
Denver.

A second plant still in bloom and discussed recently with a friend who has 
good sized clumps, is the chrysanthemum "Sheffield".  This may be around in 
catalogs having been orginally rescued by the McGourtys of Connecticut 
(authors and nurserymen).  Sheffield is in bloom now and seem oblivious to 
the truly awful weather we can provide for it.  Sheffield is a dusty pink 
large single flower, narrow petals small gold centers.  Sheffield survives in 
well drained soil and it is a permanent mum in the perennial garden.

Probably most are digging in the fall bulbs, closing up shop in the garden 
and retiring to read all the magazines, books and catlaogs that piled up all 
summer.

Claire Peplowski
NYS z4

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