Re: Losing Lobelia syphilitica

In a message dated 11/4/99 12:19:32 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
SSaxton@Schwabe.com writes:

<< I have tried the syphilitica and lost a few and cardinalis.  Are they short
 lived?  This was in my new gardening days so it may have been "operator
 error." >>
===>L. syphilitica grows wild in the woods surrounding my house.  It is a 
rampant seeder and spreader when it is happy.  I have a 1/4-mile gravel road 
to my house and it wants to grow in the strip in the middle too.  I 
transplanted a few to a damp spot in my landscape and it has taken over the 
entire area in a very short while, and now spreads out into another gravel 
driveway. 

I tried to grow L. cardinalis for years and couldn't keep it going, but it is 
persisting in the same area with the L. syphilitica, but it is not a rampant 
spreader; it barely increases at all.  At a pond store outside of Toronto 
this summer I saw L. cardinalis growing in pots submerged in the ponds.  It 
was very vigorous there and many of the ones I saw were 3' tall (feet, not 
inches!).  So my guess is that cardinalis likes it very wet.

I am in Zone 6a in the Cincinnati area.  I think Toronto is the same zone, if 
not 6b.
Bill Lee

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