Re: Plants falling out of the ground


> I have often wondered how in New Zealand you get the plants to stay in
> the ground (being on the bottom of the world).  I pictured some elaborate
> plant staking system.  However, I visited your web site with beatiful
> photos of delphiniums and found that your plants are upright, just like
> ours.  

Dawn,

Ah, but we do have elaborate staking systems. The photos we have on 
our site have been carefully "doctored" to remove signs of them. They 
are also upside down. I have some slides being developed showing 
stiff string like material snaking upwards from the spikes, this we 
attach to sky hooks. These hooks are of course suspended from 
satellites in geo-synchronous orbits. As soon as the slides are 
developed I will have one scanned and posted to the web site. By the 
way, our seed pods are swelling and should be ready within a month.

> I have no personal experience with plants to grow in snow.  I have
> planted snow crocus this year which is a bulb which is supposed to come
> up earliest in our season (around February) through the snow.  

Denise Leonard mentioned Johney Jump-ups. What are they Denise?

The sun is out today. Maybe i have been in it a little too long!

Terry Dowdeswell
18 Henderson Ave
Tuakau, New Zealand
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http://www.delphinium.co.nz
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