Re: the quiet gardeners/ Violets
Hello Claire,
Funny how you should bring up the subject of violets... a fellow nursery
person was just trying to push me a bit into carrying more violets ( but, her
specialty is alpines).... also an author of a gardening book was on me a bit for
not carrying more in my inventory.
I have tried some of the woodland violets with a bit of a difference, but have
had no success. Looks as though they go into my garden this coming spring. Sold
very few of them, and can seem to generate little interest. Believe they have a
bad reputation from the few that spread like wildfire through lawns around here. I
meet up with the attitude " a weed is a weed". I will look into your
recommendation on V. corsica.
Every fall we go to the local garden center and purchase mature mums for pots
all over the place and I usually use a few to fill holes in the garden. Have not
attempted to grow any on for the following year. Again, I will look into the
Sheffield... believe my partner, JoAn would be interested in this one for her
raised beds.
Thanks for your person tips on late bloomers.
Gene Bush Southern Indiana Zone 6a Munchkin Nursery
around the woods - around the world
genebush@otherside.com http://www.munchkinnursery.com
----- Original Message -----
From: <ECPep@aol.com>
Subject: Re: the quiet gardeners
> 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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