RE: Losing Lobelia syphilitica

I will keep trying!  I may not have reached the "killed the same plant three
times in the same place" quota yet, anyway!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Blee811@aol.com [B*@aol.com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 04, 1999 10:45 AM
> To: perennials@mallorn.com
> Subject: 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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